Friday! Hurrah!

And I'm another one who loathes the new profile page. Yuk. I have voiced my complaint for what good that will do.

Due to Mills and Boon having an anniversary (100 years?) there's a lot of programmes on about them at the moment. I was watching a documentary the other night about writing one - a writer I'd never heard of tried to write three chapters and a synopsis (and boy - what a meal she made of it to be honest!).

However I wish interested in their guidelines and the like - I don't know if the books are milder in the US or not but it seems that they are just as erotic as anything I write. Cocks and beads of moisture on the end of them, and no holds barred!  What also surprised me is that they don't preclude things like divorce, non-virginity, adultery of any kind, bad language...It just surprised me - specially when I read threads on the Romantic Times forum where they say they don't want ANYONE to be adulterous at any point.  There was alsoa drama about three women involved in the books - one married to Mr Boon, one in the 70's who went on to be Rachel Pretty - and one who taught it as part of a literature degree. Interesting!

Come on M&B, get with the programme and start a gay series will ya?

You can watch the BBC iplayer, even if you are from outside the UK if you hide behind an IP shield like Hotspot Shield.

Frost Fair's first review

And it's a really nice one!

Here's an extract:  [Frost Fair] imbeds itself deep until you can actually visualize in your mind the time and place, and the people he immortalizes. This empathy shows and allows the reader to experience the depth, the heart, and the very soul of the piece, and submerses us in the reality of the situation in which his characters find themselves.

Rest of review here