This month’s SXSW collaboration with my fabulous author in crime Valerie Day-Sanchez is about creating characters and finding inspiration before, during and after writing a novel. Let’s start with what inspires me as a writer. I’m going to be honest with you. I find inspiration in the craziest and sometimes most mundane things in…
Category: The Writing Process
Diary of a Happy Indie Author!
Before you say it, I know what you’re thinking. Yes, this angry Indie author can be happy! I decided since we just rang in a new year that I would write a positive article so we can feel optimistic for the months ahead of us. Great things about being a self-published author: 1)…
Why I became a Paranormal Romance Author.
It seems like the two most common questions I get asked are: ‘How do you write a book?’ & ‘Why did you choose to write paranormal romance?’ Usually the second question is asked with curiosity, amusement and sometimes the occasional condescending gaze of someone who believes themselves to be far more intelligent than…
Smut, Sluts, or a Female Revolution?
I was coming down from my writing a book hangover a few weeks ago and I noticed something shocking on my Facebook feed. I saw that there were a lot of free books and promotions from Indie authors whose genre was short story erotica. I was intrigued and slightly disturbed at some of the book…
SXSW October Collaboration: Doing it Our way!
Demand: To ask for with proper authority, claim as a right. To ask for peremptorily or urgently. To call for or require as just, proper, or necessary. There is a moment when you are writing a book when you feel an almost expeditious fear. These words which you have slaved over are going…
Writing & Cursing or Cursing Writing?
*This article is for mature audiences only* I am going to start off by saying that I swear…a lot. Yes, I am a mother of three and sometimes it can be hard not to drop the f-bomb when I want too but inevitably it happens. I see nothing wrong with it nor do I think…
The Cliffhanger…
The cliffhanger. I think any writer that has written a series has been faced with this dilemma. Should you leave a reader hanging or try to wrap it up all nice and tidy? I’ve been an avid reader all my life and I have always had a love/hate relationship with the premise of a cliffhanger….
SXSW Monthly Collaboration: Life, pain and the pursuit of writing.
I am horribly happy to be collaborating once again with the fabulous Valerie Day-Sanchez. Last month was a real doozy for both of us and funny enough it has inspired this month’s column on life as a writer with all the many outside interferences we face on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. We…
Judging a Book by its Cover
Your book is finally complete after days, weeks and months of blood, sweat and tears. After editing and revisions you are now faced with the next step which is the book cover. Some will argue that the book cover is the most important aspect of the publishing process. Forget about the content itself, if you…
The Dangers of Writing a Novel
Has writing The Cursed Charm placed a hex on me? Todays blog post is a bit tongue and cheek but a subject I must address. A little over a month ago I started writing The Cursed Charm, Book one of The Fae Witch Series. Three and half weeks later I was done with…
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