Thanks for inviting me to guest blog, Shelley. I'm thrilled to be on your lovely blog today. I am a traveller, having been around the world, too many places to name. This time I’ve spent in London is the longest I’ve been without visiting new places, it’s nine and a half years since I boarded [...]
Decided to do a one day promo on Disgruntled today in celebration of the new cover. Take a look. Here's a link to it on Amazon if you'd like to download it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AUQWSYA/ref=s9_simh_bw_p351_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1D7WXS0JMHFERE5RQ023&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1345685042&pf_rd_i=1286228011 Happy New Year!
A while back I attended the Lone Star RWA meeting in Houston, where Liz Pelletier from Entangled spelled out what her company looks for in a potential novel. I tend to be brief so I'll give you the gist of it here. The publishing industry is competitive and difficult. A publisher has to evaluate each [...]
Dang Holidays. They suck the productivity right out of me. I'm so busy flitting around to stores to find the right gifts for friends and fam, that I can't keep my butt in the chair. And that's the key to writing, right? Butt in Chair. Hands on Keyboard. Click. Click. Click. Hmmm. I think I [...]
Please take a look at the following posts from Lynn Cahoon, Crimson Romance author. She provides excellent advice on setting up a blog tour, step-by-step. First Post: How to set up your own blog tour: http://newkidonthewritersblock.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-set-up-your-own-blog-tour.html Second Post: Setting up your blog tour part 2: http://newkidonthewritersblock.blogspot.com/2012/08/setting-up-your-blog-tour-part-2.html And while you're there, take a look at some of [...]
Lazy Friday...my day to SHARE what great people have said, done, and talked about. From their brain to yours, here are 30 writing tips from great authors that you will recognize. But don't stop there, I have a second glint of inspiration below that. I'll warn you, this link is laden with graphics but well worth [...]
When I come up with the idea for a new manuscript, I vividly imagine how it begins. I normally can also nail down the ending and several scenes down the road. But the part that comes right before is tough. How do I give the reader enough information about the characters to draw them in [...]
Doing the Work of Lazy Words by Robyn Corum More and more you hear people preach against using adjectives and adverbs. Why? Because, typically, they are the lazy man’s way to decorate a page of prose. Certainly, precise and colorful adjectives and adverbs exist, but one must search far and wide to find them. For [...]
Do you ever notice random, little things that people do (or don't do) that are sweet or endearing? Today I woke and looked in the mirror at my disheveled hair falling all over my face, and the shirt of my pajamas hanging off a shoulder and I laughed. I rubbed my eyes and went to [...]
A read for you to consider....Ms. Cahoon will keep you entertained.
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