We Write!
Alma T. C. Boykin In the beginning, there was fiction and nonfiction. Mostly. Ish. Sort of. If you didn't look too hard. And all was good, and all authors lived in harmony with their publishers, and it was Very Good. But then a marketing agent sidled up to Eve and said, "Psssssst, wanna get more... Continue Reading →
I'll admit, this post stems from a Facebook discussion I was part of yesterday. A friend of mine mentioned a "paranormal romance" he was reading and my first instinct was to yell, "It's not PNR!". The problem was that book is on this year's shortlist for a RITA as a PNR. Except it's not. Or... Continue Reading →
Men's Action-Adventure Fantasy. This started when my First Reader and I were plotting in the car. It's a favorite way to pass the time while making the trek over the hills and through the woods to Grandmother's House, and yesterday as we were on the way home I started talking about what I'm hoping to... Continue Reading →
Last night, I was talking with Kate and some of our regular MGC readers about what I should write about today. We discussed several different possibilities but we kept coming back to a single topic and I signed off the internet, satisfied that I had my topic for this post. I finished editing the chapter... Continue Reading →
The title of this post pretty much says it all. After a month plus of working on Sword of Arelion and worrying if I had lost my mind -- I hadn't. It was must my normal insecurities as I work on a new book -- and a week of heavy editing and waiting to hear... Continue Reading →
We were talking, my First Reader and I, about what to write for you Mad Geniuses. He suggested writing about old hats. Not literal hats, although it is a lot of fun to look at costume through the ages and see how fashions have changed. But what about writing? he asked, how can you pick... Continue Reading →
I started out to write a little story to make my partner laugh. I didn’t start out to write something special, or anything other than fun, but I wound up with a novel, and then realized it’s a series, and... Pixie Noir started out of having a direction, and then it just grew. We’d been... Continue Reading →
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