NEW Website & blog! Update your links to www.ciarastewart.com

My pretty new author website is up and running! My blog has moved. Please update your links to http://www.ciarastewart.com and stop by to say hi. You can still read old posts here, whether you want to know 13 reasons Jacob is better than Edward, you’re curious about my take on steampunk romance, or you’re looking [...]

RWA National Conference 2009

This year the Romance Writers of America National Conference is in Washington DC. The literacy signing is this Wednesday and the conference runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Last year I had a lovely time at the conference in San Francisco. This year I will not be attending, as I have a family wedding the same [...]

Happy Syttende Mai!

Happy Norwegian Constitution Day from Ballard, little capital of Scandinavia. The founder of the day was “a Dane, but an ardent Norwegian in his heart and mind.” This pretty much sums up residents of Ballard, who might be American, but pretty much believe we are citizens of the 6th Scandinavian country. We’ve celebrated Syttende Mai [...]

March Madness: DA BWAHA

There is still time to enter your bracket in the 2nd Annual DA BWAHA, Dear Author Bitchery Writing Award for Hellagood Authors. 64 books published in 2008 are in the running. Pick which ones you think will win out of the 8 categories. Brackets must be completed by 11:00 pm EST on March 18, 2009. [...]

Progress marches on

Today’s Penny Arcade comic is another great one.

I’m SO excited, and I just can’t hide it!

Larissa Ione’s second Demonica novel, DESIRE UNCHAINED, debuts TODAY. Book one, PLEASURE UNBOUND, was so good, I can’t wait to read book two. I fully expect Shade’s story to be even better. If you like paranormal romance, this series is not to be missed.
Pleasure is their ultimate weapon . . .
Runa Wagner never meant [...]

Cayenne Stewart

On Sunday our baby Cayenne passed away peacefully in her sleep. She was a few months short of her seventeenth birthday. She had been staying with her grandparents while Ryan and I have been out of town, and had shown no signs of sickness or pain. We are heartbroken to lose her.
Cayenne was born in [...]

Harlequin teams up with Big Fish Games – fun to come!

Another example of how awesome Seattle is. Anyone have more info???
Harlequin and Big Fish Games Announce Licensing Agreement
Market leaders to create a series of Mystery Case Files books and Harlequin Presents games
TORONTO and SEATTLE, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Harlequin Enterprises Limited, the global leader in series romance and one of the world’s leading publishers of [...]

Brown Paper Packages tied up with String

Kate Diamond, aspiring author and fellow Greater Seattle RWA member, is blogging and playing tag over at her blog.

The Rules:

Link to the person who tagged you. (Check, double linkage!)
Write down six things that make you happy. (Check see the list below, in mostly no particular order.)
Post these rules. (Check)
Tag six others. [...]

Children’s Books Fail

More Romance Laughs from the Fail Blog!