Who is my favorite character in A NOTE OF SCANDAL? Find out at C.R. Moss’s blog today, in a Tuesday Tea with fellow Evernight authors Katherine Wyvern and Siobhan Muir. Beware: They all sound so fun you might be lured into buying more books!
I love to include real events in my stories, and since the action revolves around a newspaper and its publisher I needed a couple of doozies to be worthy of the attention of the reporters in my novel A Note of Scandal. So imagine my delight, when reading about ships-of-the-line and other nautical footnotes, I [...]
Olivia, my heroine in A Note of Scandal, is a high-born lady (daughter of a marquess), so you’d think she had it made. But what she longs to do – write music and perform it – was considered déclassé, and her parents feel so strongly about it she would never even think to do it. [...]
No not the book, sorry, but postcards! Send me your snail-mail address (nicky@nickypenttila.com) [email fixed, sorry sorry] and I’ll send one right out; if you promise to share I’ll send you more than one.
In less than 24 hours, I’ll be a published author, and the anticipation is bracingly sweet. Strangers took a chance on my writing by agreeing to publish it (thanks, Evernight Publishing!). And now strangers will read it and (please, please) love it and want more. How great is that? Here’s a taste: Wellington snapped his [...]
You might wonder at the idea of a newspaper publisher being the hero of a regency-set novel, but once I learned of John Walter II and what he did, I knew I had to at least try to tell the story. Newspapers in the 1700s and early 1800s practiced a form of “advocacy journalism,” a [...]
A Note of Scandal has a release date — May 17 — and a new page all its own. You can’t buy it anywhere yet, but you can check out the first excerpt.
So, I sold my first romance novel! To Evernight Publishing, which publishes primarily e-books; if mine someday sell enough, they might get a print run, too. We’ve not fixed on a release date, but it might be as soon as May. While many of Evernight’s offerings are erotic and mine’s only “heat level 2,” I’d [...]
This year, I will: • write every day • spend 2 hours or more every week marketing my work • travel to Spain for research • finish another print-worthy novel • have something I wrote for sale (or bought) by November • volunteer to judge or coordinate 3 writing contests • continue to volunteer as [...]
This past year, I: • spent more than 300 hours writing (not web-surfing or sitting, but writing) • spent more than 120 hours doing volunteer work • finished 1 print-worthy book (!) • submitted my work to agents and editors, and got good critiques and notes • wrote 1 good short story and started 2 [...]