DROWNING IN CATALOGS by Deborah Elliott-Upton The holiday season has always been a time of overflowing mailboxes filled with catalogs. Though postal costs have risen, catalogs are still arriving at the mere hint of a chance for retailers to make money the old fashioned way: through December sales. As a child, I awaited the Sears […]

HELPLESSLY HOPING by Rob Lopresti Last week I received a disturbing letter from the Mystery Writers of America, and it wasn’t even about my dues. Recently, Harlequin Enterprises launched two new business ventures aimed at aspiring writers, the Harlequin Horizons self-publishing program and the eHarlequin Manuscript Critique Service (aka "Learn to Write") both of which […]

Here’s another occasional piece by Angela. She hasn’t been quite convinced to come back full time, pleading health, but hell, I’ll take any piece she offers anytime she offers it. Here she takes the pulse of a theme that has occupied us here before, and I’m glad to have her take on it. —JLW TO […]