Welcome to Think About It Friday. A post where we can ruminate on the writing process, weird news or quirks of the everyday world. Today I’m looking at my writing process. Every writer does it differently. The truth is the writing process is as unique to the author as his or her voice. Which is [...]

If you are like half a million other people planning to watch the opening of the last Harry Potter movie today, like me, you might be looking back over the past 13 years since the first book came out and doing some deep navel gazing about how this story has impacted you and the culture [...]

On Valentine’s Day, love is one concept universally contemplated. We think about who we love and why we love them. We fork out barrels full of cash for chocolates, stuffed animals, cards and trinkets. Which made me wonder, why is it do we love vampires? They aren’t cutesy, huggy, cuddly. They have fangs and drink blood [...]

One of the things I love best about writing steampunk are the opportunities for research. Take this, for example: did you know that during the 1870s and well into the 1900s there was a all-female crime syndicate in opperation in London? Oh, yes, dear reader. It’s true! And it’s the fodder for a steampunk imagination [...]

This week marks the launch of Diversion Books, a new New York-based digital publisher with a new concept. Here to talk a little bit about it is Co-President, Scott Waxman. Welcome, Scott. Diversion is a brand new e-publisher, but you’ve been around the publishing industry for quite awhile, first as an editor with HarperCollins and [...]

OK, so I’m starting a new book. (Well, let’s be truly honest, I’ve got three of them going right now.) The point is this new book is a little more difficult for me to start than most I’ve worked on. And it’s because of the characters. It’s one thing when they step on stage and [...]

There are a lot of times as a writer where you shake your head and say, “Why me?” Like the time my publisher declared bankruptcy three weeks before my book was supposed to be on bookshelves, or the time I submitted several books to a publisher and received encouraging revision letters only to have my [...]

 Let’s face it. We all want something. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But why is it that some people are this amazing bust out phenomenon and other people, are well, just plugging along? I may not know everything, but what I have learned is this: becoming great is a marriage of many levels. It’s [...]

There are really so many misconceptions about writers, what they make, how they do what they do, that it’s laughable. Not all writers parade around in bunny slippers, dashing off a book in a weekend between watching reruns of Supernatural. And writers usually don’t make an astounding amount of money. Not even those that hit [...]

I promised that I wasn’t fooling around!  Today I’d like to announce the two winners for my month long blog tour contest.  If you commented on one of the blogs I was at, like Vampire Wire, Patricia’s Vampire Notes, the Harlequin Paranormal Romance Blog, or Make Believe Mondays, you were entered to win. The two [...]