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Bigot. It’s such a loaded, nasty word. It’s negative, and no one ever wants to use it. It’s like “racist” or  “homophobic.” “Anti-Semitic” sounds more like a clinical condition than a mindset one shares with Hitler, but it nevertheless carries enough context to send people scrambling for higher ground. “I’m not a bigot. I’m not [...]

– Note: MTM will no longer accept same-sex entries in any category. from the contest rules for the More Than Magic contest hosted by Romance Writers Ink Chapter of RWA It’s taken me several days to be able to write this blog post, and the worst part of it is that my job isn’t done [...]

I’m actually in this one too! Go to Lou Harper’s blog to check it out (and enter to win the grand prize). Have been quite, quite ill, so I’m behind in everything. Many blog posts in my head, many emails to answer. Soon I’ll even be able to sit at my desk without falling asleep.

Originally posted at and written for Coffee and Porn in the Morning. Warning: Bit raunchy. Also quite short. *** Adam Ellery hadn’t factored in nasty, bored frat boys when he’d planned his late-Friday-night run to the laundromat. Neither of them had even dreamt about cowboy beefcake Denver Rogers, but Adam’s pretty sure his nighttime fantasies are [...]

Be sure to stop by Andrew Grey’s blog today to go on a January Getaway with our authors. Malta, Vienna, the Caribbean—what are you waiting for? Meanwhile, the party is still on over at COP. Free stories, daily contests and giveaways, and of course all the usual pics. Don’t forget the grand prize post, either: [...]

Today begins a week-long birthday party over at Coffee and Porn in the Morning. Marie did most of the work, mind you. I’m just carrying around trays and trying not to drop them. Stop on by–there are a lot of prizes, including many free books, free shorts for all, and a chance at an ereader. [...]

It’s my very first, and it’s for an ad on Fiction Vixen for A Private Gentleman. And because I am a nerd and because no one can stop me, I’m going to post it here.

One day delayed because I wanted to participate in the SOPA protests, but since the Internet isn’t over yet, today we’re going to play. Stop by Josephine Myles’s blog to read about the blog hop authors’ favorite wintertime activities. This is my favorite wintertime activity right now.

If you go to www.heidicullinan.com today, you won’t get very far. Credit where credit is due: after reading the how-to’s people posted on twitter, I promptly emailed my brother webmaster and said, “Um? Hans? Help?” He of course had no trouble, and up the module went. Why? Because I like the Internet. A lot. It’s [...]

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Originally published at Accessline Iowa. *** I was a Girl Scout. First I was a Brownie, complete with the adorable brown beanie and the knee socks with weird orange fringe things. We met once a week in the basement of the Catholic church in town, which I remember because it felt so deliciously wicked to [...]

There is an event that happens after the completion of every novel. It’s how you know the novel is complete. It doesn’t matter if you turned it in to your editors or your agent. You’ll know you’re done because you’ll develop the syndrome. The dreaded End of Novel. EON onset is deceptive. You’re filled with [...]

Be sure to head over to Coffee & Porn in the Morning today to see the Beat Your Winter Blues Blog Tour kick off. This is your first chance to enter to win the grand prize of a $200 gift certificate to the e-retailer of your choice. Go here to read the horrible truth of [...]

Before I was published, every writer friend I knew who was told me ad nauseum to cherish that time because it would only get harder, that being unpublished was this golden field of innocence I’d never get back again. I wanted to clock every one of them that told me that, and I couldn’t wait to [...]

Check out the new page in my blog header: you don’t want to miss this blog tour. Weekly ebook prizes plus a grand prize of a $200 gift certificate. Come along and join the fun!

I registered these votes here in the poll at Goodreads, where it gave me an option to explain the reason I included each one, but I decided to make that part a blog post. And so, in the traditional reverse order, of the books I read last year which were published in 2011, here are [...]

Iowa today is nuts with the goddamned caucuses. The Democrats are calling wanting us to come and be part of the conversation or something, and every FREAKING special interest group is robo-calling. NOM keeps warning us not to vote for Ron Paul because he likes teh gay. They aren’t even real people you can call [...]

Every Iowan is posting it, so I will too.

      I’m guest blogging today at The Long and the Short of It, talking about making Christmas cookies. Head on over and check it out. There’s a contest too….

I’m actually posting this post from my phone. This blows my mind on so many levels. When I wrote about Sam Keller and his iPhone, I didn’t even have a text plan, and I didn’t even dream of data. I graduated to a Palm Pre a few years ago, and it did rock, especially by [...]