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July 5, 2011
Hannah’s Latest Adventure Starts Today
Happy Independence Day Alexandra Sabian and Hannah Vogel! Today is July 5. I’m calling it “Independence Day” for Jeannie Holmes and me because today we release our latest novels into the wild. In honor of that, I’m totally blowing off this week’s question and instead Jeannie and I will be interviewing each other about our [...]
May 10, 2011
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures . By Rebecca Cantrell . What's the guiltiest pleasure on my bookshelf? . I'm vaguely guilty about all the stacks of books I have that won't even fit onto my shelves, but not enough to give them top billing. Because, really, they're just a sign that I will never catch up and read [...]
April 26, 2011
Thriller, mystery, or cheater?
by Rebecca Cantrell Here's an opening based on a thriller I'm working on. I fudged a bit. The scene is set in Venice, so there's no high rise, and Clara's in her 20s instead of her 30s. But at least I followed a couple of the rules of the assignment. There's a gun and he's [...]
April 12, 2011
Inciting a riot for the lovely new paperback edition of A NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES
Today's post is about inciting a riot and then getting off scot free. Hannah Vogel, as we know, never gets off scot free, no matter how glib she might be. This is because her author is mean to her and forces her to constantly confront Nazis in a time of escalating evil. I've assured everyone [...]
March 15, 2011
What's on my reference shelf? Not just dust!
Sorry for the lateness of today's post. I just got back from the Tucson Festival of Books and collapsed in an exhausted, dried up husk instead of writing my blog post. Today's topic? What's on my reference shelf? I have all the standard writing books on the writing shelf to the left of the dresser, [...]
What's on my reference shelf? Not just dust!
Sorry for the lateness of today's post. I just got back from the Tucson Festival of Books and collapsed in an exhausted, dried up husk instead of writing my blog post. Today's topic? What's on my reference shelf? I have all the standard writing books on the writing shelf to the left of the dresser, [...]
February 1, 2011
Dump the body
Your protagonist blows a tire on a deserted road. When she checks for the spare, she finds the body of a young girl (mid-teens.) What does she do? Living in Berlin in the 1930s with a small income, Hannah doesn't have a car. In "A Trace of Smoke," she couldn't even drive, but by "A [...]
January 18, 2011
What I want from Santa
by Rebecca Cantrell Here's my problem (and I suspect I'm not alone): there is TOO MUCH to do. I twitter. I Facebook. I do physical book tours. I do virtual blog tours. I check in at goodreads and shelfari. I blog. I read and comment on other blogs. I have a newsletter. I go to [...]
November 16, 2010
My fantasy cover
What artist, living or dead, would you want to do your cover design? By Rebecca Cantrell I was walking through a little gallery in Kona the other day. Usually the paintings they carry have tropical themes—whales, flowers, waves, cottages in the moonlight—and often I come across something truly beautiful. This day they had a series [...]
October 26, 2010
If Mina Won the Lottery…
What would my protagonist do if she won the lottery? . . . By Bekka Black (aka Rebecca Cantrell) . If it were Hannah Vogel's month and she won the lottery, I think her first order of business would be to hire someone to put out a hit on me so I stop messing up [...]
