Liz Crowe's Blog, page 3

Alpha. Beta. Gamma!

Greetings and super happy pre-football epic weekend (at least here in A2) to you all!   Today I want to make a quick introduction to a character I created who will populate upcoming FREE NOVELS from yours truly.   I'll do this by way of a quick interview, if you will permit me this silly (yet super fun for me) affectation?    Yeah?   Cool. Here we go.   Liz: Welcome to LizLandia Sawyer Callahan. You're in "my" business at least part of the time. Why don't you tell my fans and followers a bit[image error]

The Pear Shaped Bell

  We've all been there when things go sideways, take a turn for the worse, do a u-turn, or a backflip or otherwise go from perfectly nice to utterly awful in the seeming blink of an eye.   The time I spent living in England gave me my favorite phrase for this: going pear-shaped. It's such an odd visual, you know? Kind of wide and low and fat around the bottom, like something's dropped from the top and is pooling there, waiting for someone to pop it, to release all the badness.   Or something.  

The Lovely Nina Pierce, Ladies & Gents!

  I'm celebrating the release of the firefighter anthology INTO THE FLAMES by welcoming the woman who put it all together, Nina Pierce!     Liz:  Putting an anthology together is a ton of work. What made you decide to give it a try? Nina:  Readers love anthologies. But what isn’t to love about 7-12 book bundles for $0.99 – even if that price is a limited time. It’s such a bargain. I do have books in two other multi-author bundles, neither or which I organized. One was a great group experience

The Lovely Nina Pierce, Ladies & Gents!

  I'm celebrating the release of the firefighter anthology INTO THE FLAMES by welcoming the woman who put it all together, Nina Pierce!     Liz:  Putting an anthology together is a ton of work. What made you decide to give it a try? Nina:  Readers love anthologies. But what isn’t to love about 7-12 book bundles for $0.99 – even if that price is a limited time. It’s such a bargain. I do have books in two other multi-author bundles, neither or which I organized. One was a great group experience

Center of Gravity: a Review

This month I reviewed Center of Gravity. My review is at the end of this post.       Center of Gravity  by Laura McNeill   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   BLURB:   Her whole life, Ava Carson has been sure of one thing: she doesn’t measure up to her mother’s expectations. So when Mitchell Carson sweeps into her life with his adorable son, the ready-made family seems like a dream come true.    In the blink of an eye, she’s married, has a new baby, and life is grand.   Or is it?   When her picture-perfect marriage

Give Sam Cheever a LizLandia Welcome!

Please give Sam Cheever a warm welcome today!       Liz:  How long have you been writing books? Did or do you have another job as well or are you writing full time? Sam:  I’ve been writing full time since 2006. I was lucky enough to quit my high-stress day job a couple of years ago. Today I work 10 to 12 hours a day and 6 to 7 days a week at something I love. In other words, I never work!   Liz:  Tell us your first book story--how  and where and when your very first novel was published--how hard

Welcome to LizLandia: Cindy Spencer Pape

    Please join me as I welcome my fellow Michigan author from the INTO THE FLAMES anthology, coming 9/29 and now available for pre-order on all ebook retailing sites!        L: I know you write and enjoy both paranormal and steam punk novels. Are there elements of either in "Where There's Smoke," the book you've included in our INTO THE FLAMES anthology? C: Oddly enough, this story came together with absolutely no paranormal aspects at all. I got so into the era of the 1920s that I didn’t feel

Liz Landia welcomes ADELE DOWNS!

Please welcome ADELE DOWNS to Liz Landia. Adele has a novel (Hook Me Up) in the upcoming INTO THE FLAMES anthology and unless you've been under rock, you know I do too!        Liz:  How many books have you and published and how?   Adele:  HOOK ME UP, my contemporary romance contribution to the INTO THE FLAMES anthology, is my twenty-first published romance title and my first venture into indie publishing. The experience has been exciting! All of my other books have been traditionally published.

Welcome to LizLandia: NJ Walters!

Join me in welcoming the New York Times Bestselling Author NJ Walters to Liz Land today!   Liz: Tell us the story of your first published book: how long did it take to get it published? by whom? How was the experience? What was it about?   NJ: I wrote my first book in the mid 90s. Actually, I wrote two. I shopped them around a bit and then put them in a drawer. Flash forward to 2003 and I saw an online writing contest. They wanted the first chapter of a book, and the deadline was two days. I

Welcome to Liz Landia: Desiree Holt

  Join me welcoming the talented and prolific Desiree Holt to Liz Landia today!   L: How long have you been writing sexy romances? How many have you written/had published? D: I started writing seriously in 2004, had my first sexy romance published in 2007 and it’s been a wild ride since then. I currently have close to 200 titles available. (Psst! And several in the works.)   L: Tell us the story of how your first book got published. what was it, who published it, etc? D: I submitted a novella to