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Romance eBooks

Read an eBook Week

Today starts Read an eBook week. For those of you who are sitting there saying “I like paper books. eBooks are not the same,” yes, I hear you. I’m not asking you to change your mind, but I am asking you to give one a try, just once, and for FREE. Think about it–once you’ve tried reading an eBook you will be even better qualified to tell everyone what you don’t like about them and your “I only like paper books” argument will hold even more weight during a paper vs. eBook debate. Okay? So here is the deal– I have a number of short free reads listed on All Romance eBooks. You can go there, set up a quick free account with just an email address (no credit card necessary) then choose a free read and download it. I read PDFs on my laptop with Adobe Reader. I read both ePub format and PDF on my iPod Touch using the free Stanza app. You can access All Romance directly, wirelessly, through the Stanze app on iPhone or iPod Touch. You can access Project Gutenberg from there also. I’ve download free classics (that are now in the public domain.) I […]

Life

I’m no Jane Austen

This shouldn’t be a surprise to any of you. No, not much of a resemblance between her and I, but apparently I thought I was Jane Austen for a brief period. I wrote a novella using what I thought was a very up to date and catchy premise. Think Gossip Girl meets Dukes of Hazard with a few of the Golden Girls thrown in for color. A spoiled rich girl acts out for attention and gets into trouble, prompting her grandmother to ship her off to an old friend’s cattle ranch in Colorado where she has an epiphany, makes a dramatic transformation, and meets two really hot cowboys. Yes, the heroine is unlikeable in the beginning. She is flawed. It’s not her fault. It’s how she was raised and the environment she was brought up in. But she sees the error of her ways and changes with the help of the family who takes her in. Flawed heroines are not a new thing. Think Jane Austen’s “EMMA”. Emma is not so nice. She’s cruel to the spinster, she’s manipulative in her dealings with her friend and men, she jealous, yet she learns a lesson in the end. But I’ve read […]