Entries from June 2009

June 26, 2009

3 Things I Like About…

My Current WIP
1. My heroine
2. The chemistry between the hero and heroine
3. A scene where the heroine gets into a fight with a waitress
What three things do you like about your current WIP?

June 25, 2009

Thursday 13: UPDATES ON AJ CHASE

Our blog-buddy AJ has had a run of bad luck that rivals a marathon but she is keeping her spirits as high as she can. I worked with her to devise this special THURSDAY 13.
AJ’s UPDATES:
13: Found out I was pregnant.
12: Started hormones to stay pregnant.
11: two days later, found  out I was getting evicted [...]

June 24, 2009

It’s Contest Time!

June 21 – June 30, 2009
Get ready to surf the summer reading waves for amazing prizes!
The good news? IWOFA is sponsoring a “2009 Summer Breeze” Contest.
The even better news? You’ll be able to enter THREE separate categories! You can surf cool YA waters with your young readers, enjoy warm, delicious waves with mainstream authors, or [...]

June 18, 2009

Thursday 13: Tattoo’d candy

Lately I am fascinated with tattoos and I have no idea why. I have one hero (ONE) with a tattoo and two heroines. That is it. So why is my mind drifting to body ink? Is it because I just reread all seven Black Dagger Brotherhood books?
WRATH *drool*
I have no idea but I [...]

June 17, 2009

Five Reasons Tolkien Rocks

Today I yield the floor to China Mieville and his Omnivoracious post, “There and Back Again: Five Reasons Tolkien Rocks”
Comments?

June 12, 2009

Best Couple

Of all the couples you’ve written, which is your favorite?  And why?

June 10, 2009

Runes…My Newest Plotting Tool

I bought a new set of runes over the weekend. I think I’m in love. They’re polished hematite stones with the runes inscribed in gold. Absolutely lovely, and they have a nice heft in my hand.

I’m new to rune lore, but I’ve made friends with this set and they’re performing for me in ways I [...]

June 9, 2009

JINXED goes LIVE!!

*smack* waaaaaaaa Congratulations, it’s a book!
It’s here, it’s here!  It took a month of Sundays but it it here.  This book was my teething ring, how I cut my writing teeth and it got chewed to the bone before I was through with it. Joshua became Jinx, a slew of minor characters got rolled into [...]

June 5, 2009

Who’s The Man?

Looking at all the heroes you’ve written, who’s your favorite? And why?
Bonus:  Is he your type?
If you want to share more than one, that’s cool too. 

June 4, 2009

I scrapped it and skinned it and scored!!

Yes I did. over 13K of 25 K tossed. Not lost. TOSSED.
Why? It sucked. Well, no, it didn’t suck. It was just not right for what I was doing. It was a romcom, or it was supposed to be. It morphed into some weird parody of a romcom with dark under tones. I actually cleaned [...]