RITA ® Award-Winning Author of Fantasy Romance
//Apropos of #NaNoWriMo, our topic at the SFF Seven this week is “How long should my book be?” We’re exploring the seemingly ever changing definitions of “book” length, novella length, etc. Come on over for the answer!
//This week at the SFF Seven, we’re digging in the bone yard and resurrecting… a backlist book!
Yeah, okay – not all that creepy.
But I did pick one of my very first publications that has significant creepitude. Come on over to find out more!
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//I’m sending a shoutout to my bestie Grace Draven this week, celebrating the long-anticipated release of THE IPPOS KING on Tuesday, October 6, 2020. I read an early copy and this book is amazing and wonderful and totally worth the wait. (I know her website still says September, but it really comes out Tuesday!) (Also, Grace might be a dear friend, but she became my friend because I read and loved her books. So, I’m biased, but in the best possible way. This is really is a wonderful book!)
Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is Nitpicking – venting about things or thinking about the value of attention to detail.
I want to tell you all a story about proofreading gone horribly wrong.
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Also, I’m super excited to be doing this online event “at” Love’s Sweet Arrow bookstore with my brilliant author friends Maria Vale, Amanda Bouchet, and Kait Ballenger. Danielle Dresser, Editorial Manager for Fresh Fiction will moderate. Join us on Saturday, September 26, at 3pm ET for fun conversation! You can register here.
Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is: How do you define Critique Partners, Alpha Readers, and Beta Readers?
I think this was my topic suggestion because I was sincerely interested in everyone’s definitions. Seriously, I feel like writers use these terms very differently depending on the person. Come on over for my take.
//Our topic at the SFF Seven this week concerns the reality of having to change names. We’re asking the crew if they’ve ever had to change the name(s) of a character or place in a book after we’d drafted it? Who is the character who will forever go by their “unpublished” name in our minds?
For me, it wasn’t a character. But I will tell you about the title I wish I hadn’t changed.
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Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is inspiration. What other media inspires us: fandom, music, photography, paintings?
For me, the answer is pretty much yes. But today I’m talking about visual art and the effect of beauty. Come on over for more.
//Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is all about Ideas. How do you write down or remember those great ideas that you get mid-shower/dream/car drive? If you lose them, how do you get them back?
It’s funny this came up now because I talked about this very thing on my podcast, First Cup of Coffee, just recently – and even commented that I liked what I’d talked through so much that I should transcribe it. So this gave me the impetus to do that – and edit the transcription, which is the time-consuming part. Come on over for more!
//The upside of me not being in San Diego on June 1 is that my event at Mysterious Galaxy will be available to all of you via Zoom! Would love if you all joined in!
Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is Names: What’s your favorite source/method for naming your characters, places, etc? Come on over to learn my secrets.
//Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is the Character your readers ask you to write for or are waiting for to get their own story. Come on over for the characters most requested from the Forgotten Empires.
