But then you pick yourself up and carry on writing because that’s the only option you have. Which is what you’re doing so big yays for you!!

I *know* you’ll get there 🙂

Anyway, I’d go with the stilettos, cuz destroying a form R should always be done in style!

More hugs/cyber chocolate being heaped in your direction. As a matter of fact, consider yourself hugged every hour on the hour until you feel you don’t need them anymore!

Francine – thanks for your kind thoughts on my NV chapter. 🙂

Same old story, same old heartache! Nothing has changed since I last checked out your blog (and others), and I really felt sure I’d stop by to see you’d had a virtual champagne party ages ago. What a bummer: form R.

Like Sally Clements pointed out. You’re a good writer. No, you’re better than good! And, as you must know by now I’m not one for brown-nosing any publisher or published writers. Been there done all that years ago, and as I see it from having read “Talking Dirty to The CEO”, this latest M&B form R is their loss, not your failure to please!

Be honest now, M&B novels are written “easy-read” – short sentence structure, short paras – the kind of books young teen wannabe princesses and WAGs progress to from girly comics. Harry Potter novels are more literary in content, and at least J.K.Rowling tests teen reading ability, though not on the same level as that of Lord of The Rings.

Is it really so “special” to be a HM&B writer, when far better contemporary romances with more indepth storylines are published elsewhere?

The more I read HM&B novels, and the more I joined in with HM&B contests the more I realised I didn’t like the way it was forcing me to conform to strict editorial guidelines, which in turn made me look more closely at other publisher guidelines. There’s no comparison, HM&B is much like a tight corset of torture. Whereas other good romance publishers I likened to a sensual beeded basque and free-flowing chiffon gown. 😉

You mention ebook publishers! Don’t knock them all, some are turning out much better books than HM&B and a few (award winners)have been doing paperbacks of their bestsellers for quite some time. Believe it, Jane’s “Embrace” books will be superior in quality to that of M&B romances: she’s a good editor!

And, pushing out the boat it was said only the other day on a blog -by well-known bestselling author – quote: “HM&B historicals seem little better than romances in fancy dress, English and European historical facts woefully inaccurate with stereotypal characters”. 😮

Broaden your horizons, step on the wild side and you’ll surely wish you’d done it ages ago!

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But I’ve marked all my R’s with little golden stars along the way… and they’re all shiny and available in a single click 😉 Google helps u star them, btw…

That’s to remind myself that I have written, I am writing and I will write 🙂 We cannot afford to lose track of the goal, thereby making whatever effort we put in so far as meaningless…

This post is a reminder for even myself to get that damn WIP’s out of the closest and complete those.. It’s been 4 mths since I typed “The End” on any of my stories (novellas, mind you) and I am realizing how foolish my actions are.

If I don’t write, I am the only one affected..no one else.. In a way I am harming myself, in the name of my silent battle with Rs and lack of positive response to keep me going.

So, my suggestion is..Don’t ever let anything stop your writing and your learning!

Kerrin – yay for number 6! I couldn’t be bothered wasting the energy on it. 🙂