This last week I had the amazing privilege to go to the RWA SoCal Convention in Santa Ana California. It was filled with tons of great information as well as new friends, and lots of inspiration. I listened to speakers on a variety of subjects from Steampunk Gadgets to World Building to Writing a Novella. All of which were…
So. I have known, since I finished Dead Awakenings that I would be having a sequel. However what I didn’t have was a single solitary idea as to where I wanted it to go. There are so many possibilities. One character in particular had a Huge decision to make and I just didn’t know which…
So, this novel I have been working on, and off, and on again, for the last two years, working title “Underland” has been kicking my butt! I had all but the last 12,000 words written last year and then the weight of the book came crashing down on me as I realized I had 100,000 words…
Hey everyone! I was asked by author Jessica Thompson http://www.jannnovels.blogspot.com/ if I wanted to be in the Next Big Thing Blog Hop that was started on Good Reads.com. So I thought it would be fun to do and to link to a few other great writer blogs out there. I think it also gets me an opportunity…
So, I finished my book, The Society, last year. Which is a Dystopian Vampire Romance. I have lots of love for that piece of work. My leading male, is brooding, gorgeous and tortured. My leading female is tough, sexy and powerful. When I wrote it, I wanted the first chapter to be from the point of…
My book Dead Awakenings has begun to generate a small amount of buzz with a few people in the entertainment industry. Now before we all get too excited, it was just a few. And they want to see a script. Uh…yeah… Oh! And did I mention they want to see it in the next thirty…
When I first heard the idea from a friend, four years ago, about a book premise that publishers said they were looking for, I was intrigued. For days it sat in my mind, like a small flickering ember. I tried and tried to blow on it and make it grow. But it didn’t work. Finally…
There is a great website called Screenwriting University. They have tons of free seminars and online help for writers in general, not just screen writers. Today on their Facebook page they posted a link to a new segment called How to writer a deeper scene, even if it is talking heads. by Hal Croasman. It is a…
So as I am on the latest draft of my book Dead Awakenings. I am focusing solely on the editing factor this time. My great friend and fellow author Darin Calhoun, has turned me onto three websites that I find to be extremely helpful in editing. 1) Grammarly.com Grammarly has been a wonderful and in depth website that has…
As I sit listening to the wails of my three year old, who is most despondent from having been told he must clean his room or suffer the execution of his toys into the eternal bid of waste, I think about the cuts I just made to my novel Breeders. I am struck by the fact that…
