Blog Posts from Jeannie

To SWAG or Not to SWAG – Revisited

Posted by Jeannie Lin May 1 2017, 10:00 am

In 2013, I wrote a post titled “To Swag or Not to Swag”, on one part confessing my swag addiction, but also discussing my take on when it’s good to swag and what sort of benefits authors can expect from it. Now, four years later with the spring/summer conference season looming ahead, authors are still […]

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Love Between The Covers Documentary

Posted by Jeannie Lin Nov 18 2015, 12:00 am

For the last five years, documentary film maker Laurie Kahn and crew have been following players within the romance industry, culminating in the Love Between the Covers documentary which released earlier this year. This last Saturday, the film showed at the St. Louis Film Festival followed by a panel of published romance authors from the […]

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Show and Tell Wednesday: On one hand…

Posted by Jeannie Lin Oct 21 2015, 12:10 am

An idea stolen, ahem, borrowed from the “Hand in Hand” photo series created by Wofford College for SharedWorlds 2013. I know I tell this story often, so please excuse me if you’ve heard it: I was about to sign up for my first fiction-writing class, a course that met once a week on Tuesday […]

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Show and Tell Wednesday: Infographics

Posted by Jeannie Lin Oct 7 2015, 12:10 am

In honor of the Ruby Accountability Group as well as upcoming NanoWriMo season, I thought this infographic was appropriate: by Anna Vital at fundersandfounders.com They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and never was this more true than now in the age of Facebook and Pinterest and Instagram and Visual.ly the list goes […]

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Show and Tell Wednesday: Baseball. Just Baseball.

Posted by Jeannie Lin Sep 30 2015, 12:10 am

At an ice cream social for my twinsies’ school, they had a silent auction. I made a tactical error and bid on two sets of Cardinals’ tickets, hoping to win one. Guess who ended up with two sets of tickets the same week? Things have been so crazy around here with the house stuff and […]

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Show and Tell Wednesday: Choose Your Own Adventures

Posted by Jeannie Lin Sep 23 2015, 12:10 am

Remember these? I used to go through them like candy. I recently learned that they’re now printing new ones and of course had to grab the Tang Dynasty set CYOA: Chinese Dragons. Choose Your Own Adventures are not just for kids. There’s quite a glut of romance and erotic adventures. Don’t you love the alliterative […]

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Show and Tell Wednesday – Star Wars Edition

Posted by Jeannie Lin Sep 9 2015, 12:10 am

So I learned that last Friday was dubbed “Force Friday”, a special date where a bunch of Star Wars merchandise was released into the wild to drum up a commercial frenzy prior to the release of the next installment – “The Force Awakens” in theaters in December. As I set out for my normal round […]

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Show and Tell Wednesday: Book Nooks

Posted by Jeannie Lin Sep 2 2015, 12:10 am

All my life, I’ve wanted a room for just my books. With the new house, I finally have a study/library that’s all my own. Well, I do share with the twinsies and the cat–it is the best room in the house, after all. But it gets better! Look at what else the room has… A […]

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