Love is worth the risk
No time this Monday to fret about motivation, because this will be one busy week folks. Today I will bury myself in my editing cave. Now that I’m in rough draft I need to make the book sing so I can send it to beta readers. Do you think I can do it by Sunday? […]
The year is 1811. King George III is deemed unfit to rule. His son, the Prince of Wales, now rules as Prince Regent until his father’s death in 1820. This time period is known as the Regency. But what if King George III had never gone mad? What if he lived until a ripe old […]
Is it a spoiler to tell you they lived happily ever after? In the final chapter I wrote this description: His eyes fixated on the bride who wore a gown of copper colored lace, some exotic shade Rand had never seen, one that complemented her skin and eyes perfectly. So what might that actually look […]
Good Monday morning. The sun is shining and we’re approaching 70 every day this week in the wilds of eastern PA. It’s a good day for a road trip and I’m off on one in an hour. I’m driving north to meet one of my fellow Bluestocking Belles, Nicole Zoltack, and I’m very excited. The […]
Today we sit down for a cozy chat with Jessica Cale, author of some outstanding romances set in during the English Restoration. Be sure to read down and enter her Rafflecopter giveaway, too. Did you base your characters on real people? Yes and no. Alice and Jack developed naturally throughout the series, and they are […]
I realized lately that one barrier to writing is social media. Try not to laugh too hard that it took me so long to realize something most writers know is obvious. Here’s the thing: I’ve always known I had to watch the amount of time it took from my life; I only lately realized what […]
I know, I know. That’s an odd one for a motivator. A friend just said temps below freezing and snow make for a good day to finish her edits. I say grey skies, threatening snow, and sub zero wind chills make the world an unpleasant place. I can a)get depressed or b) slip into my […]
Regular readers will note that I try to highlight a different writer of historical fiction every Thursday. Yes, I know, I’m late this week. I have no excuse, tender readers except, well February. I’m having a hard time remembering what day of the week it is! Today Maggy Mundy brings some interesting thoughts on grim […]
Turning on music is one of the triggers I use to say, “time to write, Caroline!” A friend of mine once told me she uses movie scores for inspiration. Those work sometimes. It depends on the book. For Dangerous Secrets I used a lot of traditional Italian music and a bit of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. […]
It is easy for an author to collapse under the weight of it when a secondary character highjacks the plot, gives her three scenes too wonderful to delete, and then leaves her with no idea how to get the hero from there to the end of the story. Its time to take a step back […]