The following article appeared on Avalon Authors while I revised Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls. October 23, 2011 A few years ago, one of the first comments I received on a manuscript I submitted to an agent was “I don’t know where this takes place.” I thought the descriptions were pretty clear. As far as I […]
YA Novelist, Sarah Stevenson: Guest Writer
My guest for this Author Interview is writer and Welsh enthusiast, Sarah Jamila Stevenson. Her most recent book, The Truth Against the World is set in San Francisco and the southwest of Wales, one of the most beautiful, romantic and mysterious places I’ve ever visited. I’ve asked Sarah questions about her inspiration and her plans […]
What Does a Writer Need? – Repost
This article was posted a few months before I moved from Wales, where I’d continued my writing and became a founding member and director of a women’s co-operative publishing company, Honno. September 23, 2011 I’m in the process of clearing 30 years of accumulated essentials. Besides all the accumulation related to family and friends, I […]
Prologue & Epilogue: To Write or Not to Write – Repost
From my article for Avalon Authors, on August 23, 2011 I picked up a few books this summer to read on flights, hotel rooms and just to take my mind off hassles at the end of a work day. Four of the five had prologues. I learned my lesson with this particular writing convenience a […]
How to Handle A Romance Writer – Repost
Three weeks after the Romance Writers of America National Conference in New York, I wrote this article for Avalon Authors, July 23, 2011 The romance genre in commercial, popular fiction has been attracting considerable criticism in recent months. Most of that has been directed at the more risqué end of the romance spectrum but the […]
Macho Man, Metro Man, Modern Man
All who read my previous post about Alpha Beta men will have already concluded that I am particularly partial to the male of the species. How this came about from the fourth daughter in a family of five girls and one brother to a fully grown man-lover isn’t hard to understand. Close contact. Through my […]
Bright Lights, Big City: Big Thanks – Repost
On June 23, 2011, I published this article as a tribute to two people who were instrumental in my determination to become a writer. I will soon be on my way to the publishing Big Apple, New York City, USA. Though this will not be my first visit, this will be my first opportunity to experience this city […]
Interview with Stone Wallace, The Last Outlaw – Repost
This interview was the first I ever did with another Avalon author. Stone Wallace’s latest novel, Black Ransom, is published by Berkley and I received a gift copy last week. I also wrote an article about it here. Stone Wallace is now publishing with Berkley and I had the privilege of reading an early draft […]
Concept to Contract – Repost
Below is my first article on Avalon Authors on May 23, 2011. Avalon is no more and some of us are forming a new group blog at Classic & Cosy. I hope you will join us there. These are my blogs for the original Avalon Authors group blog. Over the next few months, any article title […]
Border Patrol
We all have our personal borders: physical, temporal and emotional. Unless we protect them, we run the risk of becoming someone we never intended to be. We all know about our personal space, our comfort zones, our time management. We are not as aware of the effect of losing control of those borders or how […]