Liz Flaherty's Blog, page 109

A little splash...

It's Sunday. I've taken the day off. No, I mean it. As soon as I finished washing a load of towels this morning, I declared that to be the end. Saturday was long and exhausting just by nature of the beast--helping someone move--so today I wasn't doing diddly. So there.

But yesterday we brought a bookcase home from my in-laws' house. It's a barrister case. Nice and roomy. It will be good for storing fabric. So I've done some rearranging. Some cutting. Cutting fabric is soothing. Sorting it is l...

Spotlight on My New Book!

by Ava Cuvay

This is my shameless self-promotion (more shameless and more self-promoting than normal blogs ;-)
I know... He looks like a young Fabio,
doesn't he?! :-)
I have released my second book!! "Love and the Corps" is the second book in The Heart Nebula Series. Series should be said with air-quotes because all of these books are and will be stand-alones set in the same galaxy. While some main characters may make appearances in other books, you don't have to read them in order...

Finding the Quirk

by Margie Senechal
 
The best characters have a bit of a quirk about them. Where would Stephanie Plum be if her cars never blew up? She'd probably be happily married to Joe by now and popping out babies in her Jersey home.

I admit to adapting some of my quirks into my characters. Like Darby's favorite lunch of pepperoni, peppermint patty, and Dr. Pepper is from me. And Ana's collection of suitcases comes from my desire to collect suitcases even though I rarely go anywhere. But maybe becaus...

A Few Of My Favorite Things

Kristina's book signing table at Rust City!I'm not going to wax on about RadioMan or bebe, although they are two of my favorite people in the history of ever...no, this post on favorite things is really about things. Specifically event-type things: the book convention!

Around February I heard about a new conference not too far from my home; it was a first-time convention, and since I don't get to a ton  because of where we're located (why aren't more conventions set in the mid-west??) and...

The Promotion Dilemma

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Chrys Fey and Seismic Crimes

The Wranglers welcome author Chrys Fey to the round corral today. 
An earthquake is the disaster I wrote about in Seismic Crimes. It is a 7.4 on the Richter scale, causes underground parking lots to collapse, gas leaks, fires, sink holes, and looting. I follow my characters, Beth and Donovan, as they try to survive these dangerous situations that happen nearly one right after the other. I often asked myself “What Would I Do?” I don’t think I would’ve been as brave as the two of them. Actu...

Keeping Score

Happy Friday! I am just a few short days away from releasing my Book Number 2 (squeee!), but today I want to spotlight another new release from one of my favorite writer peeps: Jillian Jacobs.

Jillian's sixth book, and third in her romantic suspense O-Line Series is now available: "Maude's Score."

She'll probably never admit it out loud, but I think Jillian has a bit of evil genius inside her... one that revels in snatching her characters and throwing them heartlessly into dire, life-...

A Tale of Superheroes

by Margie Senechal

This week, my girls and I went to see Suicide Squad. And as a mindless, action movie, it wasn't bad. I'm not sure I'd call it good, though.

And while watching it, I came up with the differences between DC and Marvel movies, besides Stan Lee.

One: 
Backstory. Marvel gave their heroes individual movies to set up their backstories. Ironman, Thor, Captain America, even Antman got his own movie before being thrown into the mix.

However, DC crams the backstory of several characte...

Sometimes We Do What We Gotta Do. . .

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That was then...

Bestselling author Patricia Kay, a long-time cyber-friend who was instrumental in my original publication by Harlequin, recently posted the following on Facebook.

"I'm in a quandary. Got the rights back to my very first published book, CINDERELLA GIRL, (12/90) quite awhile ago. Finally working on getting it ready for the digital market and have discovered that I relentlessly head hopped in the book. Now I don't know what to do. As a writing teacher, I counsel my students not to head hop. I str...