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Alive and Thinking in Cyberspace: Pam's take on just about everything
Not a woman without a man (as the old second-wave feminist quip had it) but a romance writer without a bookmark to give away… No, wait a minute, it’s the opposite. A romance writer never leaves home without a bookmark to give away. A romance writer without a bookmark is like a fish without… fins, [...]
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). [...]
I like to offer books as contest prizes, so when I heard that Janet Mullany‘s new Regency chick lit novel, A Most Lamentable Comedy, was coming out this summer (published by the British company Little Black Dress) I emailed Janet for some info — as well as a promise of two signed advance copies my [...]
The last few History Hoyden posts, particularly from our bestselling authors Lauren Willig and Mary Blayney, about funny and fascinating branches of their family trees. Not to speak of the terrific comments — from hoydens and readers alike — about our own families and all the places they came from, including this continent, before Columbus. [...]
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 [...]
According to Travelocity, you can only fly from San Francisco to Puerto Escondido (on the Oaxaca coast of Mexico) by making two 3-hour layovers, the first in Guadalajara or Dallas/Ft. Worth and the second in Mexico City, from which you connect to the once-a-day MexicanaClick plane to Puerto — which drops you off at the [...]
I’m not quite sure how I’ve managed to let so much time fly by since my last post. But part of what was occupying me and Michael was the Modern Language Association Convention, which is always held between Christmas and New Years Day, and which was held in San Francisco this year. For those of [...]
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, [...]
Hadn’t intended to post today — so many chores this time of year, so few readers… But I know you’d want to know about this: Chocolate Type! It’s made in Germany, by a company called Typolade. But fortunately I’m well-connected, with family and friends in Berlin. You might have read here and here about our [...]
“I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.” From whom else but Jane Austen, whose 233rd birthday we celebrated yesterday… continuing into today, and probably for a few more days to come… taken from a letter quoted in Tony Tanner’s wonderful account of her writing. Party [...]
