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Alive and Thinking in Cyberspace: Pam's take on just about everything
No, not over my winning the RITA, though that astonishing event still catapults me into spasms of giddy laughter, moments when I least expect it. But this time over the wonderful racy LOL humor in my current contest prize, Janet Mullany‘s A Most Lamentable Comedy. I’ve got my own copy now (I stayed with Janet [...]
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). [...]
…to be called “the scarily brilliant and incomparable Pam Rosenthal”? As erotic romance author, web designer, and blogger Emma Petersen does today upon introducing me to her readers. Probably not, but certainly fun. And who knows, maybe someday they’ll discover that egregious over-the-top compliments are as good for the heart as an ounce of of [...]
Yes that’s me, in shades and a distressingly unflattering hat (not mine), in a boat (not the leaky one I still have to tell you about) on Lake Chacahua in Mexico. But the pic of the hotel we stayed at on the shore is accurate and worth your attention. It’s called La Almendra — you [...]
Every time we arrange or rearrange books on a shelf, we enjoy in crude form one of the basic pleasures of literary criticism. – English Romanticism and the French Tradition, by Margery Sabin …Two weeks ago, on the History Hoydens blog, I mused about the pleasures of reshelving my books in a freshly painted study, [...]
As for measure and other technical apparatus, that’s just common sense: if you’re going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. — from “Personism: A Manifesto,” by the poet Frank O’Hara I was going to begin this post by [...]
Hot if you like smart ladies romping with ideas, anyway, and want to come play as well. Check out Tracy Grant’s September 10 post (and the comments, including mine) at History Hoydens — on Libertine Heroes.
Preparatory to the workshop Janet Mullany and I’ll be giving at RWA National next week on Writing the Hot Historical, the chore (or the labor of love) I’ve set myself is to review my thought on erotic writing and decide what of it will be most helpful to writers of hot historical romance. Plus, I’ve [...]
So what’s next, you might ask? You mean after I finally, tardily, retrofit the In-the-Works page on this website to announce the November publication of The Edge of Impropriety? And after I help update the workshop Janet Mullany and I will be giving at RWA National this July about Writing the Hot Historical (leaving time, [...]
The hero of my next novel (yes, there will be one — this November!) is a classicist/archeologist/adventurer, the sort of stupendously educated Brit who wandered the eastern Mediterranean during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Sorry, I can’t help it. Though I haven’t indulged myself thusly in every book, it should be clear by [...]
