Anna DeStefano's Blog, page 48

Then…

I've been thinking a lot about the gifts that experience gives us –when we look back from the other side of hard work and FINALLY understand what it's all been about. Why doesn't time just man up every now and then, and whisper what we're about to learn into our ear, so we can relax while it's happening? I'm guessing because then we wouldn't "learn nothin'" while life does it's spinning out of control thing.

Relaxing amidst chaos is one of my "revising" goals for this year.  As you might...

Keeping it Positive…

My latest I Write THOSE Books post is up over at Pop Syndicate's Book Addict Blog, where I'm  Keeping It Positive !

Join me and fab. author Holly Jacobs as we talk about how romance novels help readers stay positive in difficult times like these, and how writers keep writing, even when life does its best to get in the way. Her leatest jewel of a novel is on shelves now from Superromance!

This is the first in my new Book Addict series  where authors share their secrets to staying positive while...

Saturday Matters…

 

If you're following me on Facebook and Twitter, you'll see a good bit of food come and go in my updates and tweets. I'm married to an Italian. And while we're busy as all get out, sitting down to family dinner as many nights a week as possible is our goal. It's important. It matters. And not just because in traditional Italian households, food is love. But because cooking is a relaxing, creative outlet for us, and so is watching our son fall in love with lots of different foods and a...

March is January…

Okay, so I disappeared–with purpose–again.

 Dorchester's pushing for a Nov. release for Secret Legacy, even though I had to take two months off from writing for health reasons and extended my draft deadline. Which meant that my editor needed an early version of the first act or so of the story to begin working with (they're saying something about a special promotion for the release, which sounds really exciting, but I have no details so, no sure what that means). Which meant, I had to stop...

Dream Banks: Secret Legacy's on the cutting edge…

I'm loving how much more detail I'm adding in Secret Legacy about dream theory and research.Some of it is my sole creation, some uses gems from my research into dream study.  And some, it seems, is a spooky combination of both… For example, I've used a "dream bank" in my WIP from pretty much day one. A database where Richard Metting stores everything he knows about the Temple Twins' dream patterns, particularly Sarah's. Then today, I stumbled across this paper about studying dream content.

It'...