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Talking Demon Kissed

I forgot to mention this! I guested over at the Paranormal Romance Blog. Come on over and read about how Demon Kissed went from idea to story.

Mythbusting

I was reading comments on an article posted online about romance books and realized there are a lot of misconceptions about authors out there. That made me think, hey, why not dispel them? Or at least give it a try.

1. Authors are rich and once they have a couple of books out, they can quit their day jobs and live on easy street--if they can't do that after their first book sells.

If you break it out, probably 1% of the authors make 90% of the money. Kind of like in Hollywood where Russell C...

Guest Blogger: Kait Nolan - Establishing Character Rapport

Please welcome my guest blogger for the day, Kait Nolan. Kait writes paranormal action romance, too, and her latest release, Forsaken By Shadow came out this month!

Establishing Character Rapport

First off, I want to say a great big THANK YOU! to Patti for letting me stop by today. I'm thrilled to be here.

Anybody who's hung around Patti's blog for a while knows that she talks and thinks a lot about character. As do most of us who write. Or should. Some people are able to dive immediately i...

Chatting Versus Blogging

I spent my lunch hour today at work trying to write a guest blog post instead of writing story. What I managed to come up with is an unmitigated mess and I'll have to redo it--hopefully with a better premise--tonight. Yes, it's due tomorrow. The problem was I couldn't come up with a topic and I was counting on an epiphany. I didn't get one.

It's so much easier to blog here. I just riff on whatever I feel like talking about. If I had to categorize it, I'd say I'm chatting with y'all. But...

My Book Collection

When I was over at Donna Grant's blog yesterday, the subject of To Be Read (TBR) piles came up. I mentioned a couple of times that I had to remember to share pictures of my book collection on my blog, so here it is. Please excuse the mess. My dad was still installing the bookcases and there are tools, a shop vac and other things in the shot.



It's hard to see in the image, but the freestanding bookcases have another bookcase behind them so they're back-to-back with each other. And all the bo...

Guest Blogging

I'm over at Donna Grant's blog talking about where ideas come from and giving away an autographed copy of In the Midnight Hour Stop on by and say hi!

Demon Kissed Is Out!

Demon Kissed was released on May 1st!

Bree Molina is a demon slayer who finds herself outnumbered and injured one night. Then Andras shows up to help her. Bree has always felt the heat between them, but it's so strong, it scares her and she wants to take things slow. This one night is going to blow slow completely out of the water.

This is a short story from Nocturne Bites and available in e-book formats only.

It kind of amazes me that I really enjoy writing short stories. My single title bo...

Adventures With Numbers

When it comes to numbers, I think I'm dyslexic. Not with words. I never look at a word and have my brain transpose letters, but I can look at a number--even a short one--and see the numbers mixed up.

It can make things like balancing my checkbook a challenge and I have to double check amounts when I'm paying bills. It's way too easy for $12.99 to become $19.29. When I used to pay by check in stores, it's led to more than one embarrassing moment when the number in digits didn't match the nu...

Right Brain Versus Left Brain

I've been sitting here, trying to think of a blog topic, but my mind keeps drifting. Today, it seems is a daydream day. All I want to do is think about one of my story ideas and watch scenes unfold.

It would be helpful if it was the book proposal I was writing, but of course, my imagination isn't that cooperative. No, it's one of my ideas in waiting--one I definitely plan to work on, but its time is not now. That doesn't matter, though. These two characters don't want to sit quietly in the ...

Research. Sigh.

Normally, I don't mind research. I want to get everything right, and with the internet at my fingertips, I can usually put my hands on the information I need and verify it's correct. Image search makes it even better because I can see places I've never been and the ground view in maps gave me a chance to trace the route my hero and heroine drove. How cool is that?

But I've run into a research issue that's going to require I actually contact someone and ask my questions. It's not that I've ne...