SJD or Jo….

  Jo here for my monthly post. I usually suck at this—always late—and poor Dani, bless her heart, has to remind me each month. This month she didn’t need to, though, since it’s part of my resolutions for 2015—to be Read more

My Commandments of Kindness

    In the wake of the tremendous upset last week, followed closely by another storm a little smaller in scale, it is easy to feel swept down with the negative. My immediate response was to close down all social Read more

New Year’s Resolutions – DON’T!

Do you know what one of the most common New Year’s Resolutions is? OK, it slots in under ‘lose weight’ and ‘stop drinking’, but ‘writing a novel’ is a pretty common one to come up with on New Year’s Day. Read more

Writer’s World: Craving the Happily Ever After (Shira Anthony)

Over the holidays I had something that truly felt like a gift: time. I juggle two full-time jobs—writing and working as a public sector attorney—so time is truly precious to me. And while that may seem clichéd, clichés have their Read more

Adultery

Adultery. A subject that makes some readers shudder, refuse to buy them or throw their Kindles across the room (hint – they don’t usually survive), and is generally a no no for romance stories. I’ve read many a heated thread Read more

Writing a Good Read: Five Keys and a Pipe Wrench

Hi, Lou Sylvre here, once again grateful to Love Bytes for the opportunity to take blog readers on a brief and hopefully not scary trip through a corner of my brain. Usually, I aim these junkets at the readers of Read more