In last week's post Read This If You Want to Be a Better Writer, I talked about Joanna Bourne. who talked about double tagging dialogue, and Shelli asked a good question in the comments. Are things like double tagging things your editor is suppose to recommend? I...
I'm not directly imparting wisdom here. Instead, I'm pointing you to Joanna Bourne's blog. Joanna Bourne might be my favorite historical romance author. She's at the very least in the top three, and every time I read one of her books, I learn something new. Her...
You guys know how I'm always lamenting that there isn't the an movie equivalent for Goodreads? On Facebook last week, one of my awesome online friends (thanks, Renee!) mentioned Letterboxd. Despite my searches for some way to list and review and share all the movies...
Every so often, I find myself getting lost when I write. It happened with the Shadow Reader novels. I ended up having to draw a map after creating too many cities for my head to hold, and I drew a sketch of the palace for The Shattered Dark and The Sharpest Blade. I...
(I wish I could write a post on my favorite and least favorite movies of 2014, but I can’t even remember half the movies I watched. I’m going to keep a list of them this year, and since no one has yet developed a Goodreads for Movies, I’m listing them on my blog with...
After the long holiday break (extra long because one of my three-year-olds had his tonsils taken out), I needed to warm up to writing again, so I wrote another snippet from Aren's POV. This takes place right after the first one, which you can read here. I'm not...
Hope your 2015 is off to a great start. I'm happy for the new year. I'm especially happy it's January 5th, because my life can get back to normal. December was a brutal, you guys. I was sick twice, my son's tonsillectomy was so much more difficult than I expected, and...
Wow, this was a terrible reading year. Not because I read bad books, but because I didn't read many books at all. Goodreads tells me 18 - my worst year ever - but that number is deceptive. Four of the eighteen were novellas. One was a picture book (I had this terrible...
I finished draft 3 of Shades of Treason a couple of weeks ago. I went through the printed manuscript and made some more mark ups, and once I get those into my file, I'll send them to a couple of beta readers. While they're with the betas, I need something new to work...