Writing Working with an Editor and Proofreader 3 Feb 201431 Jan 2014 Right now my most excellent Empress of Editing Marti McKenna is deep in the weeds of a second pass on my upcoming book Griefed, getting ready to hand off what…
Writing Multiple POVs: Keeping it real 21 Jan 2014 My first book The Sleepless Nanny, was written in the first-person from the protagonist's point of view. It's basically the easiest, most natural way to write, and a good place…
Books… The Art of the Cover – Griefed 15 Jan 2014 It's sort of a funny story--now--but at the time it stressed me out so much I was losing sleep over it. My cover artist was missing. I found Brett Parson…
Books… Soundtracks for novels? Heck, yeah! 10 Jan 201410 Jan 2014 I made Spotify playlists for each of my three Lexy Cooper novels— "Schooled" - Lexy's Playlist, "Pwned" - Lexy's Playlist, and "Griefed" - Lexy's Playlist. I start creating the playlist while I write…
Books Win a Signed Pwned Paperback 9 Jan 20149 Jan 2014 Enter to win a copy of Pwned by writing a review (you've read it on your Kindle, right?) by January 31. Check out the details and rules here.
Books Free eBooks for Christmas 22 Dec 2013 I'm feeling pretty jolly, how about you? Let's see what Santa Trixie has in her...um...sack. First, thanks to Amazon Kindle's MatchBook program, now when you buy Schooled in paperback, you…
Writing Playing with fire: Naming characters after real people 19 Dec 2013 I'm not talking about using real people in fiction. We all do it, but we are at least smart enough to change the names and details enough to avoid lawsuits.…
Books… Why is this book taking so long to write? 3 Dec 2013 My first novel, The Sleepless Nanny, took nine months to write. It wasn't a long book, or particularly complex. I wrote it for one hour each night, most of the…
Books… Cover Art: The Christmas Edition 4 Oct 20135 Oct 2013 I know some of you are already bitching "There's Christmas shit next to the Halloween candy!" So let me further assault your eyes. You may know from a previous post…
Books… Casting the Novel: Herding Your Characters 13 Sep 2013 I always knew that at some point I would need to create some system for tracking characters in my Lexy Cooper series. I just didn't know it would happen this…
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