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Freya's Bower Author Interviews - I'm Up!

Marci Baun of Freya's Bower is interviewing a bunch of FB authors and I'm up for this week! Check out my books and some insight into my characters over at the blog. ;-)

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SORMAG Online Writer's Conference this week!

Just a gentle nudge to all registrants!

The SORMAG Online Writer's Conference began Sunday August 23rd and will continue throughout the week with a variety of wonderful writing, publishing and editing related panels until Saturday August 29th.

I'll be on the Meet the Romance Author and Panel Discussion: How to go from Idea to Manuscript posts so if you have a romance or writing related question, feel free to pop on and post your question and we'll answer it.

Hope to see you there!

Wow! Congrats to Tamara Angela Grant!

I want to take this moment to say congrats and woo hoo! to one of my clients Tamara Angela Grant, author of The Cooling Board out now from Peace in the Storm publishing. I got a forward from Tamara and the PiTS newsletter and haven't had a chance until now to let it sink in and celebrate because Tamara's book is now on display and available to buy at Borders! I created the book cover layout for Tamara so I'm extra proud and happy for her.

Best wishes and many readers, Tamara!

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Stones of Time (Damewood Trilogy Book 2) by Erin Durante

This was an awesome read that I daresay enjoyed even better than the first book.

Stones of Time starts off right where Demons of the Past ended as Nadia is imprisoned by the scientists and her betrayer Maurdruik. She gets to know one of her guards, Shaden, probably my favorite character in the book, a soldier who is well read and unlike his brethren. Soon Nadia gains his trust and somewhat manipulates him in helping her escape, after revealing his dismay toward the way the other soldiers think. T

Her Wolf (Book 1 in the Westervelt Wolves Series) by Rebecca Royce

I've always been a fan of stories that dealt with the "other" paranormals that featured supernatural communities that existed outside of our human world. Her Wolf the first in the Westervelt Wolves series by Rebecca Royce handled both accounts with the otherworldly love story of a paranormal romance and the edgy yet crafty world building of a contempotary urban fantasy.

Her Wolf features Ashlee Morrison, a young woman who has just gotten over her fiance's betrayal over cheating on her and gettin

Silent Blade by Ilona Andrews

I really liked this future world and the techie gadgets and politics that surrounded the character's environment but I just couldn't get into the characters or their motivations. The story meandered a bit as it went on and it felt like it sort of took a while to find it's grounding and then it was finished. It was also became too 'Harlequin Presents' for what the setting and atmosphere had already established. A bummer cause I heard great things about this author (these authors?) and I'm always

Sci-Fi + Romance = Still A Possibility? I hope so

I have to say I'm pretty new to SF Romance in books today. I didn't know that a few romance authors had dipped into it in the past decade or and I didn't know there was a small following looking to try out books with this theme. Sure I've been an advocate for a lot of couples in the SF genre but I liked them for the delicate mix of how they handled both elements admits some great characters. Since then I've garnered up some interest in a few titles and styles that I'm on the lookout for now.

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Defying Gravity: New Show on ABC

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There's a new show on ABC called Defying Gravity, a Canadian production dubbed Grey's Anatomy in space. Eek. It was also inspired by the fictional BBC docudrama "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets. To me it looked a lot more like Virtuality which aired a month or so ago on Fox (which was canned before it even got out the gate) and Danny Boyle's Sunshine before that. It looked pretty good from the little bit I saw and I ended up catching up on the first two episodes. It wasn't quite as interest

August Spotlight on Author R.D. Peveto

This month, A Writer's Dream welcomes a special author with a current release to add to your bookshelf!

R. D. Peveto, Jr. brings is life experience of being a Registered Nurse, truck driver, a Bachelor of Science degree in Science and Technology and his work in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps as a 1st Lieutenant all to his writing.

He graduated in 1971 from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana with a Bachelor of Science degree in Science and Technology. He received his certification as a

Plotters, Pantsers and Screenplay Techniques

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I recently caught this great show on story structure, writing a novel using screenplay techniques, and Plotters and Pantsers and I wanted to pass it on to you guys out there. When I first started learning to write, it was through plays and screenplays while studying the three act structure. Novels aren't too different as they use the same aspects of plot points, rising actions, climaxes and resolutions only with more obstacles. One of the authors in the show gave some good titles where you can