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. [...]
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 [...]
Today’s six are from A Note of Scandal, which will release next week from Evernight Publishing. Remember to check out the other Six Sentence Sunday posts–and as always remember that some are not appropriate for under 18. “Merry, I told you not to come,” he said. His voice carried no trace of the pure tenor [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So, I did the first readthrough on my NaNoWriMo novel, The Spanish Patriot, this weekend. I hadn’t looked at it since Nov. 30 — actually, I never had looked at it, just kept typing typing typing. When I started reading it Saturday, it was as if I’d written it years ago–no emotional attachment. Waiting works! [...]
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 [...]
As part of my prep for National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo.org), which starts next week (eek!), I’m reading through issues of the London Times from 1808. My story this time will be that of a British journalist sent to Spain to cover the start of the campaign there against the French. Amongst the reports on [...]
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