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Alive and Thinking in Cyberspace: Pam's take on just about everything
Of Impropriety, I mean. Which is to say that my 2009-RITA-winning novel of eros, esthetics, and empire will be on the bookstore shelves in its svelte new mass-market edition this May 3rd and available for preorder now (click here for links for online ordering — and here to read an excerpt). And hey, if you [...]
But my son’s now listed on the Wikipedia page a reader created for me, a few enthusiastic overstatements have been reigned in, and there’s now a little bit of discussion about my critical writing in this quite extraordinarily well-written entry that gets a very great deal right about me and what I write or at least [...]
…was the word that insisted on being used, yesterday, when I got an email telling me there was an entry for me on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Rosenthal. Yes, it’s okay to click on it — it’s not, as I was sure at first, a Trojan horse designed to sneak onto my hard drive via the soft [...]
When old friends ask about the shape of my life since early retirement from my longtime, demanding day job as a computer programmer, I sometimes startle them by telling the truth — or one of the big truths — about what makes things rich and fun. Which is the smart, wonderful women (and a few [...]
Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? That’s from somewhere in John Keats’ letters, as quoted by biographer Walter Jackson Bate. And as I copied it out from Bate this morning, it occurred to me that certainly that’s one of [...]
Tomorrow, Friday the 10th, I’ll have a post at History Hoydens that I particularly enjoyed writing. It’s called “Umberto Eco, Barbara Cartland, and Me: Saying I Love You in Historical Romance.” And it’s about how, as a romance reader, it’s exclusively historicals for me (well, almost exclusively — sometime I’ll write about the exception cases). [...]
Love those sexy librarians… Library Journal has published its annual Best Books List, and I’m grateful and honored to announce that they’ve named The Edge of Impropriety one of the five Best Romances of 2008. You can find out more about what they said about it — and also what great company I’m in — [...]
