Charlotte Rains Dixon

Writing Erotic Romance

For starters, don’t sneer.  Erotic romance is one of the hottest genres on the market today.  And in an economy that is constantly being threatened by recession, and an industry that is constantly bemoaning the fact that nobody reads anymore, that is saying a lot. You’ll find erotic romance novels published by big houses such […]

Being Stuck

Wasn’t there once a movie called Being There?  Ah yes, here it is. However, try as I might, I cannot quite connect this movie with the concept of Being Stuck in writing, otherwise known as Writer’s Block. Why is Writer’s Block on my mind?  Could it be that I have a wee case of it?  […]

Nashville, Y’All, Part Two

One of the cool things about being in a different part of the country is that the birds are different. The computer I’m using to post on is right beside a window that looks out over the backyard and once in awhile I catch a glimpse of a bird or two flying about. They have […]

I’m in Nashville, Y’all, Part One

So I’m in Nashville, staying at my usual spot in East Nashville, house-sitting for Sue and Walt, who, along with half the other population of the south, are at the Key West Literary Seminar. And, by the way, I am writing this post on Sue’s Mac and it is a whole different world, a world […]

Lameness/Plans

Yes, I know it is lame when someone writes a post with enticing links and then they don’t work.  What can I tell you?  I am hopeless when it comes to tech stuff. 

Here’s what is going on: I finally joined the rest of the world and got the Mozilla Firefox browser.  (I don’t even know which one is the standard nickname.)  Which I love.  But apparently it has odd issues with Typepad, because when I create links they evaporate.  Just evaporate.  Into thin air.  It is very strange.

Then I went back and attempted to re-set the links using IE, which didn’t work either, for some strange reason.  So my apologies.  I actually seem to have the linking function working through IE, so I am now going to go back, once again, and see if I can’t get the links going.  Fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, stay tuned.  I have a two-part series on writing and publishing erotic romance coming up this week.  Friday I head to Nashville, y’all, and Candace’s husband Keith is making me coconut cake.  I want to bring him back to Portland with me but I don’t think she will let me.  But with luck I will have photos for you next week.

I know you are way more interested in photos of coconut cake than tips on writing.

Writer’s Montage

My friend Linda sent me the link to this video.  Enjoy!  Here is the actual link in case the embedding isn’t working: Writer’s Montage.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Back when I was a blog reader but not yet a blog writer I’d read people’s blogs and inevitably come upon the "sorry I haven’t posted for so long, but I’ve been ___________" (you can fill in the blank with sick, away, busy, whatever).  For some reason, I always hated those posts because they were […]