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 [...]
Less than a week until National Novel Writing Month! I have my characters, motivations, some shreds of plot and high hopes I can spew out far more than the minimum 50,000 words in November.
And you?
On Wednesday, the Romance Writers of America national conference opens its doors to the public from 5:30 to 7:30 pm for its annual “Readers for Life” mega-autographing session. Buy books! Get them signed by one of 500 romance-loving authors! The money goes to ProLiteracy Worldwide. It is free (except for the books you buy, of [...]
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
Writing time these past two weeks: 49 hours. How? Vacation week from F-T job! And I even had time to get up to Philadelphia and see the Cezanne and Beyond exhibit.
Now no writing this for two days — fabulous getaway weekend! OK, only 36 hours, but still, getaway weekend!
[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 [...]
Over on the GenReality blog this week, multipublished author Lynn Viehl breaks down her first royalty statement for her book TWILIGHT FALL, which hit NYT’s mass-market best-seller list last July. It’s quite the eye-opener, starting with the fact that one doesn’t see the first royalty check until more than 9 months after the book is [...]
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: [...]
Heading to a romance-writers’ retreat in Virginia this weekend (not a writing-retreat, more an info- and inspiration-retreat). I am of at least two minds on these things; it’s so great to talk with other crazy writers about the details of what we do (really, who else cares about “compared with” v. “compared to”?) and to [...]