So It Begins
Books be damned and women with them. So begins Dangerous Works First line Friday is a great time to celebrate the best first lines in books, but why not tell you about my own. Next week: Dangerous Secrets.
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Art and the Working Author
If you read my blog posts here, on the Teatime Tattler, or on History Imagined, you will have noticed they are frequently illustrated with paintings. They provide period atmosphere and imagination starters. Since the Dangerous Works, Dangerous Secrets, and Dangerous Weakness are all set during the late Georgian period of English history (also know as […]
Second Edits
This morning I thought to do a final pass through the current Dangerous Weakness manuscript to look for extra spaces at the end or beginning of paragraphs. That may not sound like much because you can’t see them in word processing, but the make life difficult for folks who format the document for Kindle, print, […]
Fruits of My Travels
The clicking you hear is from my hands flying across the keyboard. Much to do, Much to do! Blame it on travel. First of all I am back at the novella set in Venice I promised myself (while on the airplane home) I would finish this summer. I did a full run through and so […]
The Quest
Tomorrow, loyal readers, I am off to hobnob with my fellow wizards. I shall set off on the winding road to the bright mountain where the wizards gather to share secrets. That is to say, I’m packing to go to the Romance Writers of America Annual Conference in New York City. Sigh. What occurs at […]
Elemental Story Telling
All this week Melissa Stark is featuring analyses of various books in her Elemental Story Telling blog event. The idea is for authors to view their plot through the lens of the Periodic Table of Storytelling and create a “molecule” that reflects how the tropes and other story elements relate to one another. What is […]
Danger All Around
Writing is one thing; selling books is another. Many writers finally get their book published and “out there,” feel like they’ve finally climbed the mountain, and turn around only to see an even higher peak lying right ahead of them. There are grizzlies in those mountains and dangers all around. In the world of self-publishing, […]
Is it Magic? The Confusing World of Book Production
I’m still doing the happy dance after finding the paperback version of Dangerous Works on Barnes & Noble. The rest of the world, if they are aware of me at all, probably scratched their head and asked, “Didn’t that book come out last year?” Well, yes and no. If you are a happy member of […]
Writer’s Block
After a super busy (and generally successful) March and April, I tried ramping up the writing. I hope to get out another Italy story, this time a novella. In addition, the Earl of Chadbourn, friend to Jamie, Andrew and Glenaire (if you’ve read my Dangerous books) needs his own story. I’ve been writing daily for […]
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