I decided I’m not going to do NaNoWriMo again this year. I’m taking a slower approach and hoping to complete the first full draft of my Regency, Beneath His Touch, by December 31st. This gives me 67 days to write another 56k words to end up with 90k total. When I’ve been able to sit…
Once a month, Bria Quinlan and Alexia Reed host a bunch of authors who get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate–just be a writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on…
So, the Warrior Writer Workshop. I was scared it was going to be too similar to Todd A. Stone’s Novelist’s Boot Camp, but reading the book, Who Dares Wins, I realized the Blood Lessons and the Circle of Success rang much truer and allowed me to take those ideas beyond the writing and see the…
I’m taking a huge step outside my comfort zone tomorrow. Bob Mayer is coming to town and giving two days of workshops: one focused on writing and the other focused on the writer. Originally the one today was supposed to be for non-fiction writers, so I wasn’t interested. Turns out it was changed to a…
Once a month, Bria Quinlan and Alexia Reed host a bunch of authors who get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate–just be a writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on…
This coming Monday, the 14th, is the date for September’s Excerpt Monday! Bria Quinlan and Alexia Reed, the hostesses, have changed things up a bit this month, so be sure to go visit the main page for the details. The good news is that you no longer have to worry if everyone’s links are correct…
It looks like I forgot to update my 2009 Reading List for the last month or so. I’ve kept up to date on Goodreads.com, so it was easy enough to do. I was surprised to see I’d easily sailed past the number of books I recalled reading in 2008(79) and have read 87 books so…
I just spent far too long updating my Regency Resources page. I mostly cleaned up AOL and Geocities links. I LOVE the wayback machine (http://www.archive.org) for things like this. I also added a bunch of new links I had sitting waiting to be put in. I’m still thinking about how to make it more readable…
So, remember when I said summer was over just last week? Mother Nature apparently took exception to that and has sent us a heat wave here in Sunny SoCal. The electronic sign at the high school has been unable to properly show the temp, claiming it was 1C3˚F the other day. Now, the question is,…
Alexander Forsytheʼs house is haunted. One wouldn’t think a hundred and three year old vampire would let a little ghost bother him, but this particular house guest has outstayed her welcome. Alex detests witchcraft, but after discovering his ghost, Abbie, is the ancestor of the local witch, Willow Cowan, his choices are limited. Alex calls…