This weekend I attended the Gettysburg Retreat hosted by Maryland Romance Writers. The main workshop was on Screenwriting Tricks for Authors with Alexandra Sokoloff, but a highlight was the evening ghost tour through historic Gettysburg. Chapter members searched for signs of spirits and paranormal activity by taking lots of photos into the dark. I didn’t […]
The end of October I learned I’m a finalist in Oklahoma RWA’s Finally a Bride Contest. I’m thrilled. The entries go on to editors Anne Bensson of St. Martin’s Press and Leah Wilson of BenBella. The finalists are allowed to revise their entries before submitting to the final round. This is both a blessing and […]
I’ve done it. I’ve started querying Passages. Last week I completed my edits, read through the entire book as a paper copy and entered the last (for now!) changes into my chapters and combined them into one document. Then I printed the entire 369 page manuscript for another check. Interesting note: Word won’t give me […]
Thanks to another writer I met at the 2009 RWA Nationals, I finally am catching on to what the steampunk genre is. Victorian era with gadgets, YA writer Suzanne Lazear told me at the FF&P (Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal) party. But the next time we talked, her examples hit home: The Golden Compass and League […]
Woo-hoo! I’m doing the happy dance here. Passages finalled in the unpublished division of The Daphne du Maurier Contest sponsored by RWA’s Mystery /Suspense chapter, Kiss of Death. I’m thrilled. The Daphne was the first RWA contest I entered four years ago as a newbie romance writer. I entered both times in the Paranormal / […]
Please check out my post at SFR Brigade and weigh in with your unusual H&H.
and it looks like it may happen more. In my innocent, not-up-to-snuff-with-blogging way it appears I’ve joined the SFR Brigade blog, as a blogger. But hey, it’s a good thing. My little post from a few days ago was acknowledged in yesterday’s post … right alongside other authors, including Linnea Sinclair. Now to get Passages […]
I ran across the SFR acronym a month ago on another writer’s website, discovered what it meant–Science Fiction Romance– and today found a new blog community for writers of SFR. I joined and may even figure out exactly how to describe Passages, my latest manuscript I’ve been calling a futuristic fantasy. The site boasts a […]
A week ago I was asked by my former Girl Scout co-leader to talk to the troop about writing for their Reader badge. I actually jumped at the chance–my first request as a writer to speak to a group. I went over the bare bones of what a writer needed to do to transform an […]
Contests, contests. Writing ones of course. I’ve entered a 5000 word, a 2500 word and now a 200 word still open until Sunday, March 14 at Guide to Literary Agents‘ “Dear Lucky Agent” Contest. Only problem? My MACbook seems to count the words differently than the same MS WORD program on PC. Over, of course.