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Ride A Falling Star--cover reveal

Good morning!

Yesterday, I unveiled my new cover! Isn't he it pretty? I love the model portraying Levi so much! I just want to kiss his handsome face. Ha!

And I just love the girl who brings Ava to life. In this case, the models portray my characters perfectly. I searched high and low for them, let me tell you. Site after site. But then, finally, there they were!

I've been very lucky with my covers. Crimson Romance's artists are adept at bringing my characters alive, and so far, have hit...

Andrea Downing's Wrong Turn Works Out Well

Please join the Wranglers in welcoming fellow Wild Rose Press author to our corral today.
Andrea Downing likes to say that, when she decided to leave New York, the city of her birth, she made a wrong turn and went east instead of west.   She ended up spending most of her life in the UK where she received an M.A. from the University of Keele in Staffordshire.  She married and raised a beautiful daughter and  stayed on to teach and write, living in the Derbyshire Peak Distric...

Never Thought I'd be a Virgin Again!

Last week, I attended the National RWA Conference for the first time. I was nervous and excited. When I registered at the desk of the Marriot Marquis, I was given a bag of books (very nice) and my name badge. In the envelope with the badge was an orange ribbon that read "FIRST TIMER". I was a little skeptical about attaching the ribbon. I felt like I had the word "virgin" tattooed on my forehead. As if reading my mind, the lady registering me said, "Make sure you wear your ribbon. When peopl...

MY CHARACTER DEVICE

Yesterday, Kristi wrote about her storyboards and I didn't leave a comment, because I don't really utilize them--what? have a plan? Yep, total pantser here--but also because I didn't think I had a writing trick to share.

But then last night as I was wondering what I should blog about, I thought about characterization and one thing I've been thinking about trying lately. And it has to do with magazines. People and US to be specific. 

Each of them has a column that I think could be beneficia...

Wednesday Writing Tip: Storyboarding

I storyboard my wips. A lot. I have a large storyboard on a big chalkboard that I salvaged from a garage sale a few years ago. It covers the main events in the story arcs of the hero/heroine and the main events in the story.

But I never thought about doing minor storyboards for the secondary characters until I started working on my Sooper Sekrit Projekt a few weeks ago. I was in a meeting (that had nothing to do with writing) and we began storyboarding different goals, etc. and something just...

Sara Walter-Ellwood and Texas

Why Texas?Thank you, D’Ann, for having me today on Word Wranglers!This is a question I get every time I tell people what I write—contemporary western romance set in Texas. Anyone who knows me knows I was born, raised and have always lived in Pennsylvania. In fact, it’s a joke some of my western writer friends know that I’ve never been west of Ohio. Yet I love to read and write about it. But why Texas? Colorado is a beautiful state as is Montana, the other common setting for us western romance...

Finding the Right Point of View

Most contemporary romances are written in the third person. Often from the point of view of both the hero and heroine. My recently completed project, Love Me Not, also follows this format. But my debut novel, Making the First Move—which releases today—does not. The story is told in first person from the point of view of the heroine. So why did I break rank? When I wrote the story—many moons ago—I considered it romantic women’s fiction. Getting inside the head of my heroine’s love interest was...

Another Edition of Random Thoughts

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A step outside the box

         

 Some of our kids and grandkids were here last night. We cooked out and sat around in the stifling heat swatting at bugs and waiting for the sun to go down. My daughter-in-law talked me into going for a walk—a mile in the aforementioned heat nearly killed me. My son set up their telescope in the side yard and we all looked at the moon, Venus, and Saturn.
          Wow.         ...

The Introvert

Next week I'll be attending the RWA convention for the first time. Huge deal for me. While I have no problem striking up a cyber conversation, I'm in the dark when it comes to the art of mingling and networking in the real world.

I'm the person who'll sit at an empty table looking really interested in the drink I'm holding onto like it's the last drink on a desert planet. This year, I'm going to try to let my inner extrovert come out. Okay, that sentence sounded a little weird didn't it? But I...