Monday, September 5th, 2011
We have a winner for the Blog Contest for August. It’s Jane (Comment #2 on the August 9th blog entry) – congratulations! Email me so I can get your prize to you.
Archive for September, 2011
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
The topic today is weather and since I have a Christmas novella coming out in December from Carina, I thought this might be a good time for an early sneak peek. The anthology is called HOLIDAY KISSES and my story is It’s Not Christmas Without You. Here’s an unedited excerpt:
Carrie Anders loved Christmas. The lights, the cookies, the holiday spirit, the cookies, the carols…the cookies. She’d spent every holiday of the last twenty-six years in Holloway, West Virginia, the small town a few miles from the Maryland border where she grew up and her parents and brother still lived. She planned on breaking her streak by staying in Washington, D.C. this year.
No big family dinner. No week off. Just one day at home in her tiny apartment before heading back to her shift at the museum. Though she loved the job, the idea of working over the holidays made her grumpy to the point of sneering. But keeping busy meant keeping her mind off the man she missed more each day instead of less.
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Here’s Part III of what my How a Pantser Writes A Series Proposal And Somehow Sells It Without Having Any Idea What She’s Doing series.
When you write a four-book miniseries you need more than one bad guy. I realized this about halfway through the first book GUNS AND THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. I figured out quickly if I resolved everything then the suspense aspects of the next three books would be a bit light…as in non-existent. That’s when a “problem” within WitSec (witness protection) became a conspiracy within WitSec. Once I came to this conclusion the pieces fell into place. I read a book about Witsec, did some research and learned a lot about how the whole thing works (well, to the extent that information is known). From there I could lay out the conspiracy in my head.
After all that, there were two things that suprised me:
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