What a week! We’re just finishing up Author-Speed week and what a line-up it was. Feel free to scroll down or click on “In the Past” May 2006 to catch up with the posts if you missed any.
A big thank you to all the authors who took the time to share their stories and advice.
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Kerrelyn Sparks: PLAY THE TITLE GAME!
I’ve been fairly lucky with the titles of my vampire comedies. The first title, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE VAMPIRE, was overly long and false since the vampire was actually a billionaire, but it stayed. And it did very well, thanks to all you lovely readers! Apparently, [...]

Just wanted to remind everyone that the contest will be closed tomorrow evening at midnight. So be sure to get your entries in now.
Once again here is the info for the contest–
Contest Details
You could be one of the luck winners (yes I said WINNERS) of a signed book by one of the authors above. It’s [...]

TERESA MEDEIROS SHARES AN OUTLINE FOR SUCCESS!

Don’t tell anyone, especially not my editor, but I actually enjoy writing outlines. What’s the number one writing rule we have beat into our heads from the time we pull the first page out of the printer? That’s right–show, don’t tell. Writing an outline gives me my one [...]

…WIP-lash, feather boas, picking favorites and other critically important things…
Good morning, everyone! Haven was a pal and agreed to go easy on my deadline addled-brain by sending some questions for me to answer. So without further ado, here’s our Q&A. Feel free to ask more questions!

What are you slaving over right now? BTW we want [...]

One topic that never seems to get old when talking to fellow writers is getting The Call. For my guest appearance here, I thought I’d discuss the decade or so that led up to my getting The Call.
Sixteen years ago this spring, I started writing book-length romance fiction. I just didn’t realize that’s [...]

These days I hear a lot about the rules for writing. No prologues are allowed (oops, just wrote one for my new book). Don’t do backstory dumps (tell that to the author of my favorite romance of all time). Skipping point-of-view within a scene, otherwise known as head-hopping, is absolutely forbidden (yes, we all know [...]

One day, while leisurely making my way through a romance reader board, I noticed a thread about how so many romance heroines don’t have mothers.
I rapidly reviewed the books I’d written so far and . . . By gum, the readers were right! Out of six novels I’d written, only one heroine had a mother [...]

From the time I was born, or at least as far back as I can remember, I was a good liar. Now please notice I didn’t say I was a successful liar, merely a good one. In other words, people –people like parents and school teachers and nuns– spotted my lies pretty easily but because [...]

Quick warning, this is a fully loaded post.
My Writing Blog, Warm Welcome, Contest Details
My Writing Blog
I’ve been watching a lot of movies lately and it’s got me to thinking about the way I think of stories and what inspires these ideas. I know often times I can be doing something and “BAM” an idea strikes [...]