Author Diane Whiteside

January 22, 2008 | News

Voting starts today for your favorites among the Brava Novella contest finalists, all by would-be Brava authors.

There’s some great writing over there!

Diane

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January 18, 2008 | News,Quirky notions

Hullo, friends!

I’m blogging today over at Brava Authors about how to find hot fun in the wintertime. Please stop by, if you want to hear some good suggestions!

Diane

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Unfortunately, due to circumstances far beyond my control, this Saturday’s booksigning at Waldenbooks in Hendersonville must be cancelled. I am truly, truly sorry about this and wish I could see you in person. However, if you send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Binnie Syril Braunstein, my publicist, at the address below, I’d be glad to send you an autographed bookplate – or two or three, if you’d prefer – as your personal, long-distance booksigning.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
7504 Labyrinth Road
Baltimore, MD 21208-4517

Please keep checking my website for information about future personal appearances. I’ll be joining six other authors at Barnes & Noble in Bethesda on Sunday, Feburary 10th for a pre-Valentine’s Day booksigning. I’ll also be in Pittsburgh on April 17th-19th for the Romantic Times convention, Cleveland on June 6th-8th with Lori Foster’s readers’ group, and Olive Hill, Kentucky on September 18th-21st for Lora Leigh’s RAW 2008. Of course, I’ll visit San Francisco in July for RWA’s literacy booksigning.

All the best to you and yours –

Diane

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January 14, 2008 | Quirky notions

Three authors’ prose made me purr with pleasure over the past week – Anna Campbell, Joanna Bourne, and Jet Mykles.

Anna Campbell’s Untouched rolled into my hand from the top of my TBR pile one night, as if it was eager to be discovered. I do most of my writing after work in the evening and often grab a novel to look at before I go to bed. This one kept me up late. Yes, I enjoyed the characters and the plot but the sheer, tumbling beauty of her prose brought their emotions to vivid life. I’m already looking forward to her next book.

I admit I was desperate to read Joanna Bourne’s The Spymaster’s Lady, since she’s a fellow member of The Beau Monde, RWA’s Regency special interest chapter. I preordered it from Amazon and ripped open the box as soon as it entered the house. Good Lord, how her dialogue’s crystalline perfection brings her characters into focus! Wow, just wow. I am in total awe and wondering how many times I’m going to read this book.

Jet Mykles is an autobuy for me. The minute she announces an ebook is available, I rush off and buy it. If it can be had in print, I’ll buy that, too. Nothing like a backup copy, right? Jet mostly writes m/m romances and I’m always fascinated by how incredibly well she can express those guys’ emotions. Dialogue, body language, introspection – you name, she can put it down on paper using language which sounds like men, not women with a Y-chromosome. Frankly, she does this better than any other female writer I know.

If you get a chance, you might want to check them out.

Diane

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January 11, 2008 | Quirky notions

Andrew Olmsted, a major in the Army who blogged for the Rocky Mountain News, was killed this week in Iraq. Olmsted’s final post, written in case he was killed in action and titled “Final Post,” was posted by a friend.

“His voice was a voice of reason, and was a voice of logic,” Olmsted’s father, Wesley, told the Boston Globe. “He would discuss issues only to make people think.”

My deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends – and to the rest of us, for losing somebody like him.

Diane

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