Thank you for responding to my call for your books! Here are the first titles for your consideration: Sandra Carey Cody LEFT AT OZ #4 in series, but it’s a prequel so a good idea to read first mystery, heat level – G (it is, after all, an Avalon book) Avalon Books $23.95 (hard cover) […]
Festive Support
My friend, Jeff, (you can find him at FourFoxesOneHound) has set the benchmark for support to his colleagues and I want to do the same for mine: All this month and through the Festive season, I will be featuring your books on my blog. All you have to do is leave a comment on either […]
A Writers’ Super Group
I’ve added a new link to my Blogs I Read list: New Kid on the Writer’s Block. See what you think. Writing is a solitary occupation but groups like this, Four Foxes One Hound and Avalon Authors help us all to keep in contact to assist and encourage one another as well as talk with readers. […]
Wait a Lonely Lifetime: April 2012
My editor at Avalon Books has just told me that Wait a Lonely Lifetime will be published two months earlier than originally scheduled. Avalon Books releases 60 titles a year, the majority of which are romance novels. Wait a Lonely Lifetime will be in the April releases so I’ll be editing/proofreading the book early in […]
Defending Romance – Again.
USA Today Interview with Sarah Wendell (Smart Bitches Trashy Books) While there is an erotic subgenre for romance fiction and this seems to be overwhelming the market at the moment, there are many more areas of the commercial genre, as in any other type of genre fiction. Crime fiction often has major sexual overtones but […]
Summer Reading
Is there any activity more iconic to the warm weather than picking up a book and losing yourself in another world? Probably, but I’ve had the extraordinary pleasure of actually 1) finding the time and 2) discovering books that warranted the commitment of precious hours. On a day when the sun hasn’t found any break […]
What Fiction Can Do For Us
While at the RWA National Conference in New York at the end of June, I attended a media training workshop. The workshop concentrated on preparing yourself for interviews – particularly hostile interviews. The questions running through my head were: “Why do we have to defend our writing like this? Why is Romance under constant attack?” […]
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Nurturing Pomegranate II
Between growing, nurturing and pruning pomegranate, this plant and I have had a turbulent 15 months. At the height of spring, I held my breath when no signs of green appeared. All the rest of the garden was blooming. I am rarely hasty with my decisions to abandon the potential of success so I let […]
Proliferation of Characters
I’m beginning revision work on Salsa Dancing today. After reading an article about the invasion of characters, I have some thinking to do. As I write, I allow free-reign (which can sometimes become a free rain) to my imagination and thought processes. This gives me the freedom to explore direction, characterization and the story itself. […]