July blog prompts have arrived. If you are wondering how these happen, Mod R combs your comments and questions you send in and then compiles them for each month. You have very unique comparisons and metaphors when you write descriptions. Are they just things you come up with naturally, or do you have helping tools
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Assigning Genre: Industry Insiders’ Perspective
Hi. Here’s a question that will hopefully not be too troublesome. When marketing a book do you or the publisher or bookseller decide if the book is a mystery, or romance or science fiction or fantasy?Reason I ask is that frequently I am in a bookstore or library, I find a book in the romance
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Grumpy
I am back from yet another cardio test, this one involving nitroglycerin – ugh, beta blockers – meh, and contrast dye injected into me – never again if I can at all help it. I am so behind on everything. If you are waiting on an email from me, you may want to resend and
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Help, BDH, Help
Ilona: We could maybe do a series summary graphic for new readers? Me *about to make a mistake*: Leave it to me, I’ll make a mock-up. It will be brilliant! Live footage of my brain trying to describe the series I’ve read roughly Graham’s number worth of times: So I come to you, on this,
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Busy, busy
I’ve been working on this enormous genre post for you, where we interviewed all sorts of people and we have all but one person in, so it will go up soon. Phew. A word about fictional marriages in our work. The general rule of thumb is, if there is more than a ten year difference
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The Pleasure Is All Mine…
Running behind this morning. Here is a snippet. Got to run to work. The Keeper of Records turned to me. He was of average height, slim, and old. Time had wrinkled his brown skin, carving a roadmap of years around his eyes and mouth, and turned his hair white. He wore a brown three-piece suit
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Let’s Be Pedantic.
I hate to be a pedantic bore (no, actually I love it) but it is theoretically possible to set up life based on carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, but where liquid methane substitutes for water. M in the comments M’s survival instincts are misfiring. Let’s be pedantic. We haven’t told you anything except that there is
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We Must Find Him…
Pack de Camille
First things first: Jeaniene Frost, Melissa Marr, and Kelley Armstrong are doing a video chat today. Minou Camille continues to be one of the most requested update topics, so here is Camille the Chaos, Camille the Terror, Camille the Sleepy… Hmm, one of these doesn’t fit. 🙂 One of the videos has some light profanity
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A Relaxing Bath
I decided to take a stress-relieving bath in our new bathtub. I’ve got my bath bomb, my bubble bath stuff, and my book. I’ve informed the family that I will be gone for about an hour. I’ve filled my tub and climbed into it. Here I am in the tub, all set to relax. However,
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Books, Conventions, and Money
Is it worth participating in book festivals? I’m looking at going to one in another state. The cost for a table in Authors’ Alley is $110, and the festival is for one day. The last time it was held in person, attendance was around 9500 people. Maybe. Longer answer: it’s absolutely worth it if you
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