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NYC Bound!
I’m leaving very early in the AM to catch my flight to New York City! I have never been before, so this is one major big adventure for me. I probably won’t be able to blog much (hotel wi-fi is $17 a day which means I’ll probably be using my phone for internet…not conducive to […]
Read the Rest »Making the Hard Choices
I just turned The Aussie in to my editor at the beginning of the week. It’s an idea I’ve been playing with for months off and on between revisions and the continuity book. It’s been started, stopped, had the hero recast, and started, and stopped, and started again. And that’s all without my editor ever […]
Read the Rest »Two Paths Converged…
No, not talking about the road less traveled. I’m talking about the hero and heroine in a romance. In a romance, what we’re writing about is two people who are on separate paths…paths that are destined to intersect. And of course, we want to write about that collision that happens when the paths do cross! […]
Read the Rest »Shiny Happy People…or not
Perfect people are boring. At least, I think they might be. They don’t exist. Outside of fiction at least, and when they do populate the book you’re trying to read, or the movie you’re trying to watch, it can get tedious very quickly. We all try to make real people, and that means giving our […]
Read the Rest »One Girl’s Thoughts on Unpredictability
I think a few of us have heard this word now, and there’s a lot of speculation going on about WHAT this means. I first heard it in a phone conversation with my editor. She said that’s the word going around there at Rom HQ. Unpredictability. To take a book that we all know will […]
Read the Rest »Hot Rod: The Man, the Myth, the Legend…
Got word from my lovely Stand-In epic ninja editor today that Hot Rod is sold! Now he’s free to rev engines world-wide as he races to the checkered flag for his HEA… And no. It’s not a racing a book. 😉 But his name is Prince Rodriguez Anguiano (See where Hot Rod came from?) It […]
Read the Rest »Maisey Goes to the Big Apple (A Guide to RWA Nationals)
*1950s music plays in the background* Hey there, Maisey! Yes, you! I see you huddling there in the corner, hiding from the Doubt Crow! Get on up! Conference is coming up soon, and it would be keen if you were prepared! Say, you can’t wear your pajamas to Nationals. There are people there! You need […]
Read the Rest »The Man Who Changed My Writing
Writing is a constant learning experience. At least it has been for me. Each MS has taught me something new, has added another skill to my arsenal. One MS in particular really pushed me, really taught me, and in that MS it was one character in particular who changed the way I looked at my […]
Read the Rest »In Which I Rant a Rant That Has Been Ranted Before
So, it’s come to my attention that we women are too stupid to handle reading fiction. Yeah, I didn’t think that sounded right either. But if you read the recent (oh, heck, recent? What am I saying…the constant, tired, old…) articles going on about romance novels, that’s the impression you’d get. Because readers of romance […]
Read the Rest »Characters Make the Book
I was thinking about this today. Well, actually I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Because there are only so many stories that can be told, I don’t care what genre you’re talking about. There are just only so many plots. So what makes a book fresh? The author’s voice, for one. Their phrasing, their […]
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