One WIP has been submitted, one is on the back-burner and one I've just started plotting. I'm taking my time with this. With my other two works in progress I found I plotted too quickly, then went back and tried to expand them. One of them paces well, so I changed my mind and submitted …
Starting a new novel
I'm at the ideas stage. A couple of months ago I wrote a blog about the research I'll do for this. You can find it here, but basically it's a story set in the 1990's and centres around a group of friends. My husband and I have been casting people we know as characters and …
Stories should have conflict.
Today's blog was sparked by a tweet from Kev St John (@Kev_away) He had given his work in progress to a Beta Reader who didn't like one character because she wasn't a good friend. He couldn't believe this response. This character is supposed to be a bad friend. That was the point. I had a …
EMPATHY and the Brain-Computer Interface (Guest blog from R. R. Campbell)
Author R. R. Campbell and I are doing something interesting together. We're hosting guest blogs for each other. The one I wrote for his site is HERE. But here, at my place, Mr Campbell wants to talk about science and its role in his new book, Imminent Dawn. While the internet is changing the world …
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The Perfect Book Title
A friend of a friend came up with the perfect title. That was five years ago and I've come up with several story lines that suit this title. One was an epic tale of a young married couple that takes place over several decades. They would become friends with their neighbours, and after the husband …
Just finished a Fifth Draft
These days, that's more that I usually do. But this manuscript is special. This story, The Midnight Man, took me a year to finally start as I was revisiting my earlier works for a new publisher at the time I came up with this story. And while I'm more efficient in my writing these days, …
For the hundredth time, I don’t write porn!
Okay, I've written one. That was as a dare from my friends and it always sells. But apart from that, all my books are, well, books. But there seems to be a misconception from the mainstream. Unless you're published by a major company then the novel with gay content you're writing must be dirty. This …
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I’ve started a new novel…just
For those following at home, you'll know I'm negotiating work life, social life and writing time. Well, I've finally started Winter Masquerade. At time of writing this blog I've completed several paragraphs of the first chapter. I know it's not much, but it's something. I already have the chapter by chapter breakdown and have several …
Outsourcing ideas from a 10 year old
This post was originally published while I was still working on Winter Masquerade. This ebook novella has since been published. Click HERE to find out more. My current work in progress is delayed. I have to complete assessments for a course I attended, so my current novel is still in its planning stages. I have …
So you want to write a romance – Guest Blog by Tanya Chris
The first time I'd ever heard of H.E.A. was for a review of my first novel. In it my story was being criticised for not having a standard H.E.A. so I had to look up what it meant. Now, this first book, Drama Queens with Love Scenes, contains a love story, but it's a farce about …
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