So yeah, it’s taking longer than I thought, but this story is even better than I thought, so there. I’ll be running silent, running deep until vacation in a couple weeks. I really want to be done with this pass and take a complete break, but as the parents say, “we’ll see.”
On scene 50 of [...]
So, I’ll be running silent, running deep for a bit (like, 4-5 weeks) as I plow through the big second-draft revise. This pass includes the massive plot revise, character sharpening and combining, story rearranging, scene setting, and fluff cutting. I’m finding this nearly as hard as the scene-for-scene cards I did in April, and [...]
So, after a sluggish start and some mild howling about the first draft of my Manchester story, I managed to build a weekend’s-full of space to get down to reorganizing and shaping this behemoth.
This is the revised sentence-for-scene outline, all 15.5 pages of it. It took me 17 hours over two days and the night [...]
I have a small streak of the obsessive: Last summer I read every Sharpe book by Bernard Cornwell except the Chile one (21+?), in order, over two months in the summer. Or maybe it’s a need for immediate gratification: I sometimes like to wait until every book in a series I’ve found I like is [...]
Truth be Told
A Proper Scandal
The Deceitful Truth
A Lady’s Lies
A Lady’s Truth
Story of a Lady
Tales of a Lady
The Deceitful Truth
The Truth of the Matter
[see part one below]
More choices:
…Sheets, Scandal Sheets, Press, News …
Press Relations
Miss Delancey and the Publisher, The Persistent Publisher, The Lady and the Publisher
Passion’s Secret, Passion’s Truth
Melody of Desire, Desire’s Melody
Scales of Scandal
Truth, Justice, and the Lady
Truth, Justice—or the Lady
The Lady and the Scribbler, Scribbling and Giggling
Miss Delancey and the Tall Tale, Miss Delancey’s White Lies
A [...]
Both agents I talked with this past weekend said I needed a better title than MUSICAL TIES. One said something with more sensuality, the other something witty. The story is of a high-born lady musician who lies to get her compositions published by a “truth-or-nothing” publisher at the end of the Napoleonic wars. Here goes:
Music: [...]
The month and next, I’m walking through my current WIP (work-in-progress), scene by scene, and then line by line and, ideally, word by word. The story is set in England in 1815, and I need to rein in my modern-English tendencies. “Felicitations” is OK (first used in 1628), but not “sugarcoat” (1858), though it is [...]
Nicola Cornick’s latest historical fiction novel, Unmasked, is available as an “enriched edition” e-book at eharlequin.com.
Harlequin promo:
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