Alison Kent's Blog, page 48

My hubby, My roomie

Today at GenReality, I'm talking about my favorite conference roommate who is half pictured below, and no, it's not Takumi, who is bunking with us for awhile.

It's Monday. Again.

I'm blogging at GenReality today about writing novellas.

With Extreme Pleasure, I give you King Trahan

I had planned to wait a couple of months before talking about my December 2009 Brava release, WITH EXTREME PLEASURE, Kingdom Trahan’s book, but since the cover is up around the web – though I haven’t yet set up a page for it – I figured I’d better do something to let readers know it’s coming! If you’ve read NO LIMITS (and if you haven’t, why not!), then you’ve met King. And you’ll remember that Michelina Ferrer wanted King and Simon both to do a photo shoot for a new men’s fragrance ad.

ONLY SOME

Left Behind and (not really) Loving It; Suggestions?

The winners of the Too Many Books, Too Little Storage Space giveaway are:

Malissa Thomas, Pamk, cheryl c, Kristen, Hilcia, Armenia, Mari, Stacy S, Pam P, Lisa Ferris

Send your mailing addresses to ak@alisonkent.com and I’ll get the books sent out!

I’m going to be participating again this year in PBW’s Left Behind & Loving It workshop series to run the week of July 13 – 17. These are craft, industry, genre, publishing, etc. workshops given by bloggers during the week of the RWA national conference.

The Little Book That Could

Laurie G asked:

What has been your best seller to date?

Favorite book of yours? Favorite book ever?

(She also asked about 1) promotion, 2) genres, 3) ebooks, 4) piracy, and 5) pricing, to which I say 1) promotion’s out of hand, and it’s hard to be original anymore or to know what works, 2) genres are cyclical, 3) ebook’s day will come but I’m a print reader all the way, 4) pirates will roam the Internet as long as there’s an Internet to roam, 5) no real clue except everything seems to go up and o

How do I REALLY feel about my cover art?

In my Too Many Books, Too Little Storage Space giveaway post, where I asked for blog topic suggestions, Armenia gave me this one:

I love your book covers…these men are gorgeous. But I have heard/read that, as an author, you have no input as to what goes on your cover. Is that true? Because when I read a novel I invision that hero from the front cover with all his actions and thoughts. Have you ever gotten a cover on your book that just was way off the mark to your ‘visual’ hero? Now that would be

About that crying thing . . .

I posted the other day that there was no crying in reading. (The “no crying in baseball” scene from A League Of Their Own is one of my favorite ever, and I tend to borrow heavily and apply at will.) I figured I should counter that post with another and say there’s no crying in writing either. Except that would be an outright LIE!

You see, there IS crying in writing. I do it daily to HelenKay and she pretty much reciprocates. We do it behind the scenes, off camera, out of sight where it belongs. S

Too Many Books, Too Little Storage Space

When No. 1 Daughter moved home in February, she boxed up all my bookshelves so she could replace my books with hers. I’ve been going through the boxes this week, organizing by genre, getting rid of what I know I’ll never read, etc. But those are all the books I bought for myself. The matter of my NO LIMITS copies is something else entirely. Kensington sent me copies above and beyond my usual case of 48, or whatever, so I need to dump some of them as @cuppacafe keeps tripping over the boxes that

And GO BING!

Today at GenReality I’m talking about where ideas come from. But I have a funny to share. I wanted to make a reference to something but could only remember 3 of the 5 in the sequence. I searched and searched and searched on Google. I put in every combination I could think of. I got results that were related, but weren’t what I wanted. As a last ditch effort, I went to Bing, Microsoft’s new decision engine.

I put in the same search criteria and found it. Fourth item. And funniest part? The search

The Reality (TV) of Writing

An author once said to me that she didn’t understand why anyone watched Reality TV because there was nothing about it that was real or interesting. (This same author didn’t understand why anyone would watch Everybody Loves Raymond because the family was mean, but that’s another blog post.) I, of course, argue that Reality TV, while not always interesting has an incredible amount of realism. Yes, much of the shows are scripted. But the behind the scenes snippets, even if manufactured (and isn’t t