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June 21, 2015
Meet Golden Heart Finalist Priscilla Kissinger!
Priscilla writes romance with a Latino flavor. In addition to being the President of FCRW, she works full-time in marketing & publicity and, since earning an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, teaches an on-line romance writing course for ed2go. A single mom o...
June 18, 2015
Fan Girl Friday – June 19
It’s that time again, Fan Girl Friday where we talk about books, and this week we have two fabulous freebies for you! (for a limited time only!)
Free this week!She has a problem relaxing with men
Frumpy wallflower Hannah Oliver is nearly thirty and has a serious self-image problem. Growing up in her centerfold mother’s shadow and being raised by her pious grandparents has left her so self-conscious about her matronly, D-cup figure she gets tongue-tied around good-looking guys. So when Hannah...
June 17, 2015
Meet 2015 Golden Heart Finalist Seana Kelly!
Seana is a high school English Teacher-Librarian who writes in the wee hours of the morning when her husband and daughters are sleeping. She was born and raised in the California Bay Area but believes she must have lived on the East Coast in a previous life as she feels a ridiculous connection with an area she’s onl...
June 16, 2015
Metadata Basics
Metadata. Ah, the less glamorous part of publishing. What exactly is metadata and why should you care?
A quick Google search shows many sites and articles referring to metadata as, well, data on data. Huh? My eyes have already glazed over. Have yours?
In effort to avoid nodding off or losing anyone, I’ll just go over the rudimentary basics as it applies to authors. Metadata is information about your book.
Author name, title, subtitle, publication date, format, ISBN – the bones. Nothing extrao...
June 15, 2015
Meet Golden Heart Finalist Alice Faris!
Alice Faris grew up in a small community in Northern California that proudly boasts of having more cows than people. She raised Guide Dogs for the Blind, is dyslexic, and can shoot a gun and miraculously never hit the target (which at some point becomes a statistical improbability). Alice also publishes science fiction and fanta...
June 14, 2015
Write Right…whatever works for you!
Do you write right?
I don’t mean the way you create a story, whether you’re a plotter or pantser. Or the way you tell structure your sentences or lay out you scenes. I mean, do you park your rear in the right places to write the best books? Do you make use of the best time of day for your creativity?
You see, for the last few years I’ve been honing my process (not just to best plot the book but figuring out how/when/where to write it). And I knew that as part of that process, when I need to b...
June 12, 2015
Fangirl Friday: 6.12.2015
Sorry we’re so late posting today! It’s that crazy time of year when all of us who are mommas are running around like crazy with school concerts and graduations and promotion ceremonies and family vacations….and this Fangirl Friday just slipped through the cracks.
Several Rubies–Elizabeth Bemis,Darynda Jones, Autumn Jordon, Jacie Floyd and Rita Henuber- met up with each other and with happy readers this past week at Lori Foster’s Reader Author Get Together. (#RAGT2015). Just wanted to share a...
June 10, 2015
Meet Golden Heart Finalist Elle Mason!
Elle is a wife, mom of a preschooler and terrier, social worker, the person people seek for advice when visiting The Mouse, wannabe photographer, and a jokester. She’s lived in the West, Northeast, and has called South Florida home for the past ten years. In her relatively short hi...
June 9, 2015
Broadway Bound (Part 2)
Welcome back to the Rubies’ series on preparing for your NYC trip. A few weeks ago, Jamie Michele taught us the basics of Priceline. Last week, I let you all in on the South Street Seaport TKTS secret. And I also gave you the homework assignment to watch the Tony Awards.
My favorite awards show of the year!!!! Wasn’t it fantastic? (Although I won’t dwell on the fact that the Tony’s for Best Book of a Musical, Best Musical Score, and Best Choreography were all given during commercial breaks ra...
June 8, 2015
Meet 2015 Golden Heart Finalist Kimberly MacCarron
Her newly-nominated book MAPPING FATE is a New Adult mashup of magic and murder/mystery. When local girls are found dead in front of broken mirrors, Moira Cassidy teams up with the hot admissions officer at the local college to solve the murders, as rumors spread that Bl...