by Laura K Curtis | Oct 7, 2014 | Books, Writing
Several things came together this week—the continuing uproar over the Authors United letters and/or the Amazon-Hachette issues along with Ellora’s Cave suing Dear Author—to create this post. I have many, many things to say about this, so the post is apt to be...
by Laura K Curtis | Oct 4, 2014 | Writing
I may have mentioned here a time or two that I am an insomniac. Most of the time, I lie awake and toss and turn and worry and freak out about stuff I can’t handle. Occasionally, my brain turns to more productive matters. Of course, it’s never provides me...
by Laura K Curtis | Sep 18, 2014 | Books, Romance, Writing
So now that I’ve gotten my contract back and it’s all official and everything, I can announce that I have two more books coming from Penguin in April and November of 2015. They’re as yet untitled, but they will be romantic suspense, loosely related...
by Laura K Curtis | Aug 28, 2014 | Books, Romance, Writing
This topic arose today on Twitter, particularly in the cases of “fated/cursed” lovers. In my first TICA—tropes I cannot abide—post I talked about alpha-holes. My dislike of insta-love isn’t as strong, but it’s still there. I’m going to...
by Laura K Curtis | Aug 2, 2014 | Books, Writing
At conferences and panels, one of the questions that frequently arises is “how do you start writing?” Now, my answer to this is a little different from most: I just write. And I do it because I know I will eventually delete the first scene…or two, or...
by Laura K Curtis | Jul 28, 2014 | Books, Writing
RWA is over and it’s left me with some thoughts. Not deep ones, you understand—I rarely have those, and never after a conference. But it did occur to me that the two types of conferences I go to leave me in very different states. In both the mystery and romance...
