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February 18, 2016
Paranormal Romance Author Tracey Clark – #EggcerptExchange
Here are a few treats for readers interested in paranormal/fantasy romance (new adult) from author Tracey Clark:A blurb from Shocking Finds, a quick excerpt, some links for buying options,a fun Q&A session with the main character Marin, and info on the author ~ “Happy wordage everyone!”
About Shocking Finds:
An act of rebellion, Marin doesn’t think that running into the new store in town will hurt anything. Heraunt will never know… right? One car wreck later, her aunt is hospitalized, Marin i...
February 16, 2016
Award Winning Author Elaine Cantrell: #EggcerptExchange
Award-winning author Elaine Cantrell has published thirteen novels, ranging in genre from thriller romance to togothic. She’s on my blog to share her newest romancerelease,The Captain and the Cheerleader:
About the Book:
Susan English can’t stand Robin Lanford! She’s so full of herself she irritates everyone on the faculty of Fairfield High. When Robin bets Susan fifty dollars that she can’t get a date with Kurt Deveraux, the head football coach, Susan jumps at the chance to put the little he...
Reading in Public: How I Conquered my Fears
Most people are terrified to speakin public. As a writerwho’s read in more coffee shops and libraries than I can count, I was once terrified, too. But you can get over it that fear. Here are two of my worst moments, and 10 thoughtsabout how to get over yourfear.
The very first time I read a poem in a tiny coffee shop in southeast Detroit, I had backed up to lean against a wall to keep from passing out cold. My mouth went dry so dry that I couldn’t speak. Luckily I was surrounded by an intimat...
February 13, 2016
Romance Author Linda Nightingale for #EggcerptExchange
During February and March, I’m participating in the Authors helping Authors Eggcerpt Exchange! I’ll be featuring excerpts from novels from nearly 20 different authors, ranging from suspense to romance to gothic thrillers. In turn, I’ll be on their blog with different excerpts from In the Context of Love!If you’re interested, you can find the links using #eggcerptexchange on Twitter. Here’sto finding new books and authors!
My Valentine’s Day guest is award-winning, contemporary romance writerL...
February 11, 2016
Paranormal Author Kim Cox for #EggcerptExchange
If you’re a fan of paranormal mysteries, you’ll enjoy hearing aboutKim Cox, author of theLana Malloy Paranormal Mystery Series. Kim lives in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina–and her husband sculpts bears out of wood with a chain saw. I admire Kim when I imagine the concentration it must take to write while listening to the whir of achain saw!I thought barking dogs were a major distraction. Anyway,Kim is on my blog for Authors Helping Authors Eggcerpt Exchange,sharing an ex...
February 9, 2016
5 stars for Panic in a Suitcase, a Novel
Panic in a Suitcase follows the lives of the Nasmertovs, who emigrate from Odessa, for over two decades. The elderswonder if they made the right choice, moving to America, while, at the same time, they try to convince the lone hold out, Pasha Nasmertov, to join them. He steadfastly resists in apassive aggressive manner that infuriates his sister.
The novelisuproarious and engaging, full of vivid characters with idiosyncrasies and foibles. I loved Akhtiorskaya’s style — her language, herfresh...
February 8, 2016
How I Learned to Be a Friend
I don’t remember how old I was when I met Jennifer. Maybe six or seven. She and her family moved into a housethree doorsfrom ourson a quiet cul-de-sac with only20 other houses withgreat big yards in Independence, Ohio. My only playmate until thenwas a boy. My heart just about burst with joy when I met Jen.
It seemed we were together nearly every day, all day. Inside, outside, her house, my house. When she wasn’t around, I moped. I thought it was unfair that she had a life away from me.
We co...
Happinesss: When Things Don’t Go As Planned
The husband said he was going to prepare me for our ten-day trip to Singapore (he often travels overseas for work) by mentioning that things never go exactly as planned. I don’t think he ever could have anticipated this hiccup though. You see, we never got on the plane. We never even got past check in.
It was a Monday, the first of February. We were excited and happy when we walked intoDetroit Metrowith suitcasesfull of warm-weather gear and backpacks loaded with books, earplugs, chargers, iT...
February 4, 2016
What, Why, How: Faye Rapoport DesPres
WHAT?
For much of my creative writing career I have focused on observing life in this time and place and examining not only how various incidents and memories in my own life have affected me personally, but also how they relate to the more universal human experience. In my memoir-in-essays Message From a Blue Jay, I reached back to various moments and incidents in my life and examined why they had stuck with me. In turning those memories over in my mind and on the page, I tried to discover...
February 1, 2016
Writing is no orderly process
My novel doesn’t start at the beginning.
Is this an inside writing joke?
What I mean is the narrative inmy storyisn’t ordered chronologically. It wasn’t always that way, but when it was in chronological order, the opening chapters of In the Context of Love read like a YA novel. It is definitely not YA.Something had to change.
I needed to start the novel in the present time, when the narrator, Angelica, is an adult, and then have her reflect on her teens.
The hardest part in shaking up the or...
