Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Weekly Quote Wednesday Thomas Jefferson and Samantha Grace

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

Historical romance quote

“He had become the proper gentleman she’d sought all along, except, drat it, she liked the scoundrel he had been and mistrusted his newly acquired manners.”
 ―Samantha Grace, Miss Hillary Schools a Scoundrel

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Weekly Quote Wednesday Julia Quinn and Erin Knightley

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
― Julia Quinn

Historical romance quote

 True love is a rare and precious thing- don't let anything stand in its way.
 ―Erin Knightley, A Taste for Scandal

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Boy, have I been missing

I'm sorry for being MIA. I just realized I hadn't been around with a substantial blog for a while. (insert chirping crickets here.)
I've been busy with a novel, a potty training two-year-old, a family visit, and a final check over for a requested manuscript. Fear not, gentle reader, I'll be back with a new blog idea in a week or so. I'm going to try to do one subject focused on writers and one focused on readers, with both being focused on fun. I might also have a wildcard. We'll see how we go. Look forward to future blogs. Hopefully they will be fun.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Weekly Quote Wednesday Joseph Conrad and Sherry Thomas

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Historical romance quote

 Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful. And in the end, so catastrophically flawed. ― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a usband

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Weekly Quote Wednesday Franz Kafka and Julia Quinn

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

Historical romance quote

 “To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke And I

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Weekly Quote Wednesday Eleanor Roosevelt and Sally MacKenzie

Weekly Quote Wednesday
Writing quote

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

Historical romance quote
  
"Frankly, I hope to see you and Ned married this summer."

Ellie Choked--and made the unpleasant discovery that it was possible to snort tea out of one's nose.  
―Sally MacKenzie, Bedding Lord Ned