When Characters Don’t Do What the Author Planned by Lyn Cote
What’s the author to do? To think? Well, usually I smile because that means that my characters have become REAL. Once a reader said to me, “You act like these characters are real.” And I said, “Within the pages of the book, they are!” If my characters do not behave like real people with minds… Read More
Christmas Stories? Read ONLY at Christmas?
As an author, this is a sentiment that I hear quite often from other authors. Usually as a statement: “I won’t promote my Christmas stories until late in the year. People don’t want them till then.” So is that correct? Personally I enjoy Christmas stories year-round. But I must confess that I do enjoy reading… Read More
Help me Name My Hero! Please!
Lyn Cote here… I’m in the midst of writing a Christmas novella for the upcoming Sweet Romance Reads Novella series, titled “Puppies for Christmas.” (Six authors have gotten together to release novellas once a week, starting October 1st–so watch for these. All of them have puppies and Christmas in them! Imagine that? My novella is… Read More