vicky bliss
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Some of you may recall a few rants I’ve done in the past inspired by a series of books by Elizabeth Peters which feature a buxom blonde historian by the name of Vicky Bliss. Now, I’m sure part of Vicky’s voluptuousness (which she, naturally, abhors because people just won’t take her seriously!) is meant to…
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PSA: If the first chapter of your book includes a moment where your heroine complains about the burden of being so damned attractive that it makes it hard for people to take her seriously, I am not going to like your main character. The same goes if you have your character spend a significant amount…
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“A man can’t understand why a woman’s handbag is such a sensitive object-almost an extension of her person. I don’t fully understand it myself. Maybe it’s because we keep so many private, intimate possessions in our purses- love letters, cosmetics, jelly doughnuts…Maybe a purse is a symbol of the womb, or something equally Freudian. I…
L.S. Engler 