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Before starting the Lois Meade Mysteries, I wrote six village novels, the
Round Ringford series, where plot and characters were built up over the
series. As I have always lived in English villages, this was a labour of love,
and with so many contemporary issues, like closure of small village schools,
dual carriageway bypassing a quiet village, changing character of villages as
`incomers` move in, etc etc., there was plenty to Read More...
I think perhaps one of the hardest things for a budding novelist to master is
determining what the "through line" is and meaning of the book you are writing.
In other words: what is its theme?
I am not talking about the book’s "message," though there certainly may be one
by the time the story ends.
Think, for a moment, about the Read More...
When I originally thought about this week’s blog I thought I would write about
how far a reader would
travel to “meet” a favorite author. I was thinking about that because I was
going to attend a function in
Ft. Worth in which Robyn
Carr was going
to be the phone in author. However, fate decided to give me a sick husband and
I Read More...
I saw it again this week: “Romance novels, like fairy tales, lack realism; they
make young women believe a handsome prince is going to rescue them with promises
of happy-ever-after.”
Oh, please.
I loved fairy tales as a girl, but spent not a single second staring down the
road for my prince. It’s my considered opinion that those who use this analogy
know fairy tales only from Disney movies, particularly “Cinderella” with Read More...
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This Christmas, my son got me the computer role-playing game called Dragon
Ageand when I need a break from writing and edits, I stop to play the game.
Now, in one part of the game, and in many of these fantasy worlds, wolves are
not nice. But not only do they have bad wolves, they also have badder
werewolves. Some are rabid, some are plain old werewolves, some speak, but all Read More...
Is there anything more fun than discovering a new-to-you
author, and then having the excitement of finding and reading
that author's backlist? This has happened to me over and over.
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to come so late to some authors.
Most recently, I was re-reading some old Maggie Osborne western
romance novels, and when I was done decided to look Read More...
I’m a great lover of all things Celtic. As I live in England, I’m surrounded by
ancient ruins and other Celtic memorabilia, so I’m in the ideal place to indulge
my interest. I based the fantasy world of my Magic Knot Fairies’ series
on Celtic mythology and have used areas rich in Celtic myth and legend to set my
stories. I’ve had the pleasure of visiting Dublin and the Read More...
Thanks so much for having me back to talk about my latest release, CATCH OF A LIFETIME, the
story of Mer princess Angel Tritone (younger sister to Rod and Reel from the
other two stories), and Logan Hardington, a Human who wants nothing more than
Normal in his life. A Mer(maid) is as far from Normal as you can get.
I had a lot Read More...
Can you keep a secret?
Okay, I see you all leaning forward...she’s going to tell us something big,
you’re thinking. A secret. And yes yes yes, we can keep it.
Really?
What if—all you had to do was tell, and it would change your life? Would keeping
the secret as you promised be more important? Or would you be tempted… What
if—all you had to do was tell the secret Read More...
It’s the end of January and I thought I’d try something new this year-taking a
day to recap some of what I read or listened to this month.
One of my many yahoo groups has several different reading challenges which will
be ongoing throughout the year, and last year I had resolved to participate and
started out great, and really petered out, but this year I am again determined
to participate. There Read More...
This week was filled with excitement, if you're into gadgets. First we had the
Digital Book
conference, for most of you that was way under the radar. I don't blame you.
It was a small group of people discussing the possible formats of the media for
our future reads. Debating over what is now less than 2% of the way we acquire
and read books Read More...
