ReelVixen: None stop interviews with amazing authors! Just finished chatting up @Jennaromance. Can't wait for her Sept book 'Married W/ … # Nora Roberts is amazing. She delivered a kick butt get into the pool motivational speech #rwa10 #ffrwa10 # RT @SummerSharp Was it recorded? <- probably I'll check it was inspirin, you know me I like the motivation not poor me talks in reply to SummerSharp # Also really fantastc the authors recognized w/ 100 book achievements. Except slacker Nora Roberts #ffrwa10 she has 165 NYT books! # Other stuff to remember: NR did 1st books on typewriter w/ carbon paper, whiteout, promo bribing kids to stuff envelopes & stamps #ffrwa10 # RT @pjpuppymom Great Jack's Bar lunch w/ Robyn Carr. Thank you, Robyn! <- sorry to miss the lunch bet it great # Btw had 2 great lunch pals: the Voss ladies. Write SSE & Intrigue Charmers in person & great writers. We were the FUN table #ffrwa10 # Jocelynn Drake wants you to Discover "Dark Days" http://bit.ly/avmEQY # Fresh Pick is RED'S HOT HONKY-TONK BAR by Pamela Morsi http://bit.ly/aTTlll another great read up for a RITA(tm) # Great meeting @diannalove at Nancy Berland 15th Anniversary party. Congrats…

ReelVixen: None stop interviews with amazing authors! Just finished chatting up @Jennaromance. Can't wait for her Sept book 'Married W/ … # Nora Roberts is amazing. She delivered a kick butt get into the pool motivational speech #rwa10 #ffrwa10 # RT @SummerSharp Was it recorded? <- probably I'll check it was inspirin, you know me I like the motivation not poor me talks in reply to SummerSharp # Also really fantastc the authors recognized w/ 100 book achievements. Except slacker Nora Roberts #ffrwa10 she has 165 NYT books! # Other stuff to remember: NR did 1st books on typewriter w/ carbon paper, whiteout, promo bribing kids to stuff envelopes & stamps #ffrwa10 # RT @pjpuppymom Great Jack's Bar lunch w/ Robyn Carr. Thank you, Robyn! <- sorry to miss the lunch bet it great # Btw had 2 great lunch pals: the Voss ladies. Write SSE & Intrigue Charmers in person & great writers. We were the FUN table #ffrwa10 # Jocelynn Drake wants you to Discover "Dark Days" http://bit.ly/avmEQY # Fresh Pick is RED'S HOT HONKY-TONK BAR by Pamela Morsi http://bit.ly/aTTlll another great read up for a RITA(tm) # Great meeting @diannalove at Nancy Berland 15th Anniversary party. Congrats…

I’m planning to lock myself in a bookstore, any bookstore, overnight and re-shelve the books. Before you call the authorities, let me explain. Most categories make sense: art, self-help, travel, reference. But what about the “Fiction and Literature” category? Isn’t that redundant? Or is there some fiction that’s not literature? Is it IL-literate, then? There’s some literature that’s not fiction, but aren’t those volumes across the aisle in Nonfiction? While we’re at it, let’s think about the other bookcases. There’s one case, around the corner from “Fiction and Literature,” labeled “Mystery.” Hmm. Is Mystery neither Fiction nor Literature? Confusing, isn’t it. Mystery comes under the umbrella known informally as Genre Fiction, along with Romance, Western, and SciFi, to name a few. Mystery writers grumble about this seeming second-class citizenship in the world of books. We like to think we create engaging characters, interesting and complex stories, rich settings, and aesthetically pleasing turns of phrases. In other words, literature. As a mystery writer myself, with 13 novels published, I often envision all the mysteries in a bookstore coming to life and entering into a criminal conspiracy. I picture them infiltrating the Fiction and Literature shelf, until they are seamlessly woven in…