All for one, and one for all! You gotta love those words. And don’t they put you in the mood to read some swashbuckling adventure? I’ve taken Dumas’ character, Athos, and given him the romance he never got in The Three Musketeers. Of course, I couldn’t make it easy for him. This heroine has secrets,… Read More
by Maggie Kelley – I am a proud owner of a first-generation iPod, the original, clunky white one with the scroll wheel. Yeah, that’s me. My husband surprised me with it one afternoon years ago and I still consider it one of the sweetest, most romantic gifts I’ve ever received. The music of my life… Read More
My path as a writer from Epic Fantasy to Paranormal Romance I started out as a fantasy writer. I grew up reading Tad William’s Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, and my favorite childhood movie was The Last Unicorn. Fantasy came easy to me. It poured out of me in the form of castles, dragon, princes,… Read More
As someone who can attest to the page-turning reads that are The Hunger Games and Divergent trilogies but who has always worried about what the fascination with dystopia says about teen readers, I couldn’t resist the opportunity this week to see if any changes were afoot in what YAs were reading. For my answer, it… Read More
by Augustina Van Hoven – The concept of time travel absolutely fascinates me. To be able to go to other points in time and witness historic events or to travel to the future to see what is coming, have always been fantasies of mine. In my new upcoming series, I will be exploring the different… Read More
by Joanne Rock – I live in a tourist town and this is a hectic time of year when the spring breakers come to town. I’m happy for the local businesses though, and glad for the income that makes our little community thrive the rest of the year. But most of all I’m excited to… Read More
By Angela Claire – I am one of the millions of women who will eagerly volunteer that I haven’t read Fifty Shades of Grey. There are so many of us out there that it makes you wonder who all those other women are who have been busy making E.L. James rich. But in my case,… Read More
by Dani Collins One of the first pieces of advice a writer will often hear is, “Write what you know.” That is good advice in some respects because it helps you write with confidence. For instance, the fact that I live in a small town allows me to write with authenticity about Marietta, the small… Read More
A new series by Lucy Monroe Sometimes old flames are the hottest of all . . . In the quaint little town of Cailkirn, Alaska, it’s impossible to keep a secret, especially one as juicy as the unexpected return of Kitty Grant. Tack MacKinnon remembers her wild red curls and even wilder spirit—and still feels… Read More
By Veronica Forand An idealized writer’s life includes a veranda over looking the Pacific Ocean and majestic sunsets. Margaritas optional. Most writers, however, are stuck at a kitchen table, a converted closet with a snack tray, and a back porch overlooking the neighbor’s back porch. Writers are creative people. We don’t have to remain stuck… Read More
When Writerspace’s oh-so-fabulous leader Cissy Hartley invited me to start dropping by on Tuesdays as her intrepid book industry blogger, I was intrigued but wary. The book industry these days moves as fast as scene cuts in Moulin Rouge, and I could only remember how that movie had left me so nauseated I’d been forced… Read More
This is the problem with authors: we are too empathic to give up on people, and we consider our characters people. This means, we can’t give up on our books, not even after dozens of rejections and many long nights of beating our heads against the keyboard. RELUCTANT CONCUBINE, my March fantasy romance release, was… Read More
If you are having fascinating dreams …Write poems about them! Many of the world’s famous poets, including Voltaire, Goethe, and Christina Rosetti said that they drew creatively on their dreams.[i] Several of the poems that I have had published were based on vivid dreams. So, drawing on my book, Dreaming~The Sacred Art, here is a… Read More
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