Since I’ve recently moved house, and have been experiencing a shift in my writing priorities along with my new geographical location, I decided to update my bio page. Take a look and see what you think. Comments and suggestions are always welcome! Also, my apologies to any of my Facebook friends who have recently been …
November 29, 2009 – 10:25 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Austin, Life of an Artist
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Tagged apps, Austin, brute force, Facebook, Facebook friends, GRE, hipsters, Montreal is full of effing hipsters, new author bio, regional networks, SAT, soporific, spam, swearing at the computer, technical glitches, Twitter, Wolf-band sideburn-growing events, Wolf-band sideburns
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I’ve been in Austin for a few weeks now, and I haven’t seen a single armadillo. When I first arrived in town, I started seeing tons of armadillo paraphernalia. It seems the city’s unofficial mascot is the peculiar looking armor-plated vegetarian (which undoubtedly help keep the weird-quotient high in Austin), and while friends have pointed …
November 28, 2009 – 11:17 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Austin
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Tagged animals, Armadillo Bazaar, Armadillo Christmas Bazaar, armadillos, Austin, Book People, Godot, Keep Austin weird, Samuel Beckett, waiting for armadillo, waiting for Godot
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Apparently it’s easy for even the most talentless hacks to get their books published at real live publishing houses these days, as I discovered when writing my latest review for Quill & Quire. I just finished reading one of the worst erotic (and I use the term loosely) novels I’ve ever seen. Clearly, I should …
November 19, 2009 – 12:41 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Literature, Story Ideas
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Tagged author bios, bad erotica, bio photos, book deals, bored housewives, clichés, erotic romance, erotica, Quill & Quire, romance novelists, Smut, talentless hacks
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I realize there’s next to no money in writing erotica, as I run an erotica website myself and make no money off of this project, but this is simply ridiculous. Here’s a copy of an email I just sent to Ellora’s Cave Publishing‘s Editor-in-Chief, Kelli Collins, upon reading this unbelievable “job posting,” and its insultingly …
November 18, 2009 – 12:14 pm
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By Laura Roberts
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Posted in Life of an Artist, Work, Writing Tips
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Tagged competitive wages, content editors, copy editors, editing jobs, editing work, Ellora's Cave Publishing, erotica, freelance editors, Freelancing, industry standards for writing and editing, JournalismJobs.com, Kelli Collins, Laura Roberts, minimum wage, Office Space, premier publisher of erotic romance novels, professional fee guidelines, PWAC, Smut, wage slavery, Writers.ca, writing erotica
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