Lissa Matthews's Blog, page 69

Fan or Reader?

Which are you? Are you both? Is there a difference? If so, what? I was following a discussion on Twitter the other night and a comment was made regarding this…that fan-base is different from readers and that a fan-base may drive otherwise dismal sales. Now, they were speaking of a particular author, but it got [...]

Edits and Other Things

I've been working on edits this week. They haven't been as hard and difficult and hair-pulling as other edits I've received from my editors, however, I want this book to be great, to be awesome, to be incredible. It's important. I know most authors and hopefully all authors want their books to be great. It [...]

We Are Family…

…or so they say. Some of us have great childhoods. Some of us have 'eh' childhoods. Some of us have horrible, awful childhoods. We all grow up with a different definition of family and a different way of dealing with them when they show up. Out of the blue. 32 years later. That's what happened [...]

If you…

…could have a fling with someone from high school… If you could go back and have said fling with them as they were in high school, who would it be? Who was your secret crush? As y'all know, I have a book I'm writing about a woman that meets up with her high school crush [...]

Forever In Blue Jeans

I just hit send on the submission of Forever In Blue Jeans, Book 3 in the Blue Jeans and Hard Hats series, to my Samhain editor, Bethany. Let's all cross our fingers and toes and eyes that she likes it. I'll keep y'all posted! I am taking the rest of the day off from writing/revising. [...]

In the meantime…

Yesterday was an emotional, topsy-turvy day and if you missed my tweet/Facebook update about it, don't worry, I'll talk more about it here soon. I am in midst of doing self-editing/self-revisions on Forever In Blue Jeans, the 3rd book in the Blue Jeans and Hard Hats series. It's my longest book at nearly 60K and [...]

What are you reading now?

What books? What authors? What genre? What has you turning pages and pulling out your credit cards or pushing that 'Buy Now with 1-click' button? What's filling up your bookshelves, virtual or physical? I want something that leaves me breathless… What have you got for me?   ~lissa

So close…

…to the end of this book, I can taste it. It and the warm whole wheat chocolate chip cookie bowl I'm devouring as I write this. This week I've done a guest blog and an interview over at Under the Covers Book Blog. They're celebrating 500 followers and if you haven't been over there, go [...]

Favorite Tumblr Posts From Recent Days

I'm doing this kind of post today, a picture one because, well, it's fairly easy and not taxing my brain. Most of my cells today are focused on Forever In Blue Jeans as I am in the final turn. I've come around the last bend and can see the checkered flag at the finish line. [...]

Been Writin' So I'm Sharin' An Excerpt

What do y'all think about my L? I love it! I love the corsets I use most often, too, but I love this L! I think as people see it more, they'll associate it with me and that whole recognition and branding thing that I've been reading about will maybe take effect. Who knows. We'll [...]