Alison Kent's Blog, page 40

Point of View, or who's seeing this scene anyway?

Viewpoint is one of a storyteller's most powerful tools. It's also the craft element that seems to be subjected to the most rules, meaning an author needs to understand its potential in order to use it for maximum impact. You may have heard that you should never head hop. What you may not have heard is that head-hopping is not the same thing as a deft point of view change. Do you know the difference? Do you know how to deftly make such a switch? Do you know why some readers like the back and ...

Harlequin Announces Digital Only Publishing House

Carina Press is a new digital-only publisher that combines editorial and marketing expertise with the freedom of digital publishing. With a long history of digital marketing and editorial experience, the Carina Press team is committed to bringing readers fresh voices and new, unique editorial.

Our philosophy is: no great story should go untold!

Carina Press will publish a broad range of fiction with an emphasis on romance and its subgenres. We will also acquire voices in mystery, suspense and ...

Buy a Book, Save the World (tm Heroes) – Year Two

It's National Bookstore Day so I'm repeating a post originally made November 7, 2008. (Yeah, the Facebook Group co-opted my title for their project, but it's all good!)

Remember the book shredding video I posted? Along the same *dire straights the publishing industry is in* lines, I bring you the following from blogger Moonrat, an editor in the biz. I love this post so much, I'm copying part of it here:

For anyone who cares about the book publishing industry and wants to do their part...

Bread Machines, or Dr. Atkins is turning over in his grave

For as long as I've known him @cuppacafe has enjoyed baking bread, pizza dough, all manner of yeasty things. (He used to make me pizza when we were dating. *g*) And all without any sort of measuring of ingredients or recipe usage. He just tosses stuff by ratios and it all turns out good. A month or so ago he got a bug to get a bread machine. Remember when those things cost a fortune? No longer.

$50 later we're home from WalMart with the one and only Sunbeam model they had in stock. The first l...

What to write, or which way does my muse blow

I've got two projects out in the wild looking for homes. In the current state of the publishing industry, I'm not confident either will find a place to land. I would like to be, and two years ago I would have been. Today, not so much. It's just the way the market bounces. So I'm trying to decide which of my gazillion ideas to write next, and I thought I'd toss out some first paragraphs, see what you guys think. These are the first five I could find without digging through my boxes of spiral n...

Prince of Persia – This is going to be SO good!

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Release Day! It's time to take a DEEP BREATH!

Not yet convinced to buy DEEP BREATH? That's why I'm here to help you out with a list of Ten Reasons to Buy Multiple Copies of DEEP BREATH for yourself and friends:

1. The cover and copy. Two reasons, actually, but how can any romance reader resist either.Out on the open road with a price on their heads, two unlikely lovers are caught in a game of secrets, lies, betrayals, and desire, where trust is risky and love is no time to catch your breath… Irresistible, if I do say so myself.

When a guy...

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The Heat is On . . .

Simon Baptiste's latest SG-5 mission just went south in a major way. With his career on ice for awhile, it seems like a good time to take care of some business back home in Louisiana. Simon knows it ain't going to be pretty. He's got some old enemies in Bayou Allain who won't exactly roll out the red carpet. But Simon's first night back is more than he bargained for. Not only has the...

A Vampire Reunion

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