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Variance in Voice
First off, a bit of news! I submitted Untouched Hero to my editor (or rather, The Scandalous Princess, which is the real working title). And I’m making a start on book two in the duet which is working titled The Honorable Heir. It’s always fun to do books that are different from each other, and […]
Read the Rest »A giveaway! (Update!)
I entered names into my random winner picker and I got…MARIA!! Maria, send me your detials via my contact form! I’ll admit, this giveaway was inspired by a tweet that the Wall Street Journal did. Should Black Women Marry Outside Their Race? My mind, ladies and gents, is boggled. People should marry who they love. […]
Read the Rest »POV, for Wrath, for Ruin and for the Red Dawn
Somehow, this became a pep talk of sorts, which makes me think of King Theoden, because I’m a nerd. So we’re going with it. It’s time to talk about Point of View…or, POV as it will be called from here on out in the post because I’m nursing sore wrists. I’ve seen a lot of […]
Read the Rest »What The Lion King Taught Me About Writing
I did a post a while ago about what the Beast taught me about alpha males. From that post sprung a Beauty and the Beast themed book (Hajar’s Hidden Legacy, Jan 2012). Today I went and saw The Lion King in theaters with my five year old son. I remembered going to see it when […]
Read the Rest »New Contract and a Behind the Scenes Look
Yesterday, I was officially offered a new four book contract for Presents! I knew that I was going back to contract after the sale of Coffee Magnate (which now has an official title, ONE NIGHT IN PARADISE) but we had the bright shiny official phone call yesterday. 🙂 When I start a new contract, my […]
Read the Rest »Timing is….
Everything. The time certain things happen, the time elements of backstory are revealed, are very important in a manuscript. If you have a really emotional element in a character’s background, revealing it to the reader, or other characters is going to be an important event. And WHEN that revelation happens is going to be key […]
Read the Rest »Coffee, Tea…or an Alpha Male Who Owns The Largest Chain of Coffee Houses in the World?
I’ll take the third one! And so did my editor. 😉 The Coffee Magnate, who has no title as yet, has sold! *does a small, dorky dance* I really, really, really loved writing this book. I’ve always had a thing for friends to lovers books. (Maybe because my husband was my friend, and boss, before […]
Read the Rest »Quoth the Doubt Crow: You Suck
It’s that time again! That time where I submit a manuscript I’ve done revisions on and I’m forced to *wait* and find out if I have OH HOLY CRAP messed up, or if I’ve done a reallyreally good job. For some reason, I have a hard time distinguishing between OH HOLY CRAP messed up and […]
Read the Rest »New Ideas and Inspiration
I know I’ve said it before, but inspiration is everywhere. I find I get little snips of ideas from all kinds of things. Newspapers, reality TV, a dance routine, a song lyric. Just recently I got an email from JetSetter (I subscribe to all kinds of naughty things…for research, you understand!) with glamorous vacation packages […]
Read the Rest »Process
You know how there are people who like to run? And they can run…pfft…I dunno…twenty miles in a day and they feel GREAT. I would feel…DEAD. Then there are the wonderful housekeepers, who love to bake pie and make bread and sweep the floor and at the end of the day they feel GREAT. I […]
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