Virginia McKevitt's Blog, page 7
July 17, 2012
Katie Harper Writes: Meet Tongue!!
Katie Harper Writes: Meet Tongue!!: Tongue Bio: Tongue is the translator of the group. He is extremely intelligent. He speaks Arabic, Farsi, Persian Dari, and Hebrew, amo...
Maxine Mansfield: My Very first Book signing
Maxine Mansfield: My Very first Book signing: Don't look too close.... ButI had my very first book signing the other day, and I learned a few rather disturbing things a...
July 16, 2012
O. G. Tomes: A Scottish Kilted Author
O. G. Tomes: A Scottish Kilted Author: A take notice and delightful introduction...... Ever wonder what the real person behind the avatar is like? Seumas gives us a bird's e...
July 13, 2012
July 8, 2012
O. G. Tomes: Vengeance Wears Black REVIEW by O.G. Tomes
O. G. Tomes: Vengeance Wears Black REVIEW by O.G. Tomes: Vengeance Wears Black ..... E xudes pure Seumas Gallacher at his best! Travel the globe with Jack Calder in his world of International ...
July 6, 2012
The Art of Lying
Fiction writers are the best liers in the world. They have to be or they would never sell a book. You name it, a good author can write a story about it. Does it mean we are experts on our writing subject. Probably not (have you seen any vampires or dragons running around lately), but with imagination, research and good old lying a writer can transform a stack of dead trees into a world of fantasy, fear, science fiction, or romance, and readers everywhere want to believe it.
That is what writing is all about. Taking those pages of lies and transforming them into believable bits of time that takes a reader away from their everyday lives and on a journey. That is what reading is all about. Every genre has a different set of lies. Some lies are based on real life situations, others on the utterly fantastic (there's that dragon again).
Do you have a pack of lies you would like to share with world? Get started before the zombies get you.
July 4, 2012
Virginia McKevitt author: The Fourth of July
Virginia McKevitt author: The Fourth of July: I am humbled just to be able to sit here and write anything I want about this great country and no one can punish me for it. I am proud t...
The Fourth of July
I am humbled just to be able to sit here and write anything I want about this great country and no one can punish me for it. I am proud to be able to say I am an American. I'm proud of the soldiers who fight everyday so people can love, hate or be indifferent because they are free. I'm proud of my dad who served in the Korean War, and My husband who went to Vietnam.
I am hurt and saddened when someone who lives in this diverse country slams her to the ground but would not have the, to put it bluntly, balls to go live somewhere else. One day we may not have the luxury of freedom of speech or to go where we want across this vast and beautiful place we call home.
Then what will they complain about?
I am hurt and saddened when someone who lives in this diverse country slams her to the ground but would not have the, to put it bluntly, balls to go live somewhere else. One day we may not have the luxury of freedom of speech or to go where we want across this vast and beautiful place we call home.
Then what will they complain about?
July 2, 2012
Paranormal Romance~What makes It Hot?
Paranormal Romance is one of the hottest genres (actually a sub-genre of fantasy) on the market today. The titles and book covers alone can make one break out in a sweat, but what is it that makes you want to read about romantic encounters with beings from other worlds or vampires and werewolves? Is it the old concept of forbbiden love or the thrill of the bad boy (or girl) image mixed up with fangs and wolf fur?
Dragons and wizards are sitting on the back burner while muscled bodies and creatures who howl at the moon warm the beds of the humans we write about. Steamy romance, whether implied in Ya or graphic in Paranormal erotica, has encreased by leaps and bounds since the e-book revolution and now knows no boundaries.
Don't get me wrong, sex sells in any format but you have to have a good story to back it up. There still needs to be adventure, a plot, somewhere that this is all going. Without a good story line its just porn on paper.
Fantasy, as wild and imaginative as it is, still has rules. If your reader does not find your characters and story believable you will lose their interest. Make the relationships between your human and non-human characters real. Give them a cause they both have a stake in (no pun intended), especially if its for different reasons. Obstacles that strengthen real life relationships are everywhere. Just give them a little twist.
So, what makes it hot? Dark and dangerous delivers whether you dash it with a little pepper or turn on the hot suace. Romance appeals to the heart and the paranormal infuses it with the thrill of the fantastic, something we all want a little bite of (I just can't help myself).
Dragons and wizards are sitting on the back burner while muscled bodies and creatures who howl at the moon warm the beds of the humans we write about. Steamy romance, whether implied in Ya or graphic in Paranormal erotica, has encreased by leaps and bounds since the e-book revolution and now knows no boundaries.
Don't get me wrong, sex sells in any format but you have to have a good story to back it up. There still needs to be adventure, a plot, somewhere that this is all going. Without a good story line its just porn on paper.
Fantasy, as wild and imaginative as it is, still has rules. If your reader does not find your characters and story believable you will lose their interest. Make the relationships between your human and non-human characters real. Give them a cause they both have a stake in (no pun intended), especially if its for different reasons. Obstacles that strengthen real life relationships are everywhere. Just give them a little twist.
So, what makes it hot? Dark and dangerous delivers whether you dash it with a little pepper or turn on the hot suace. Romance appeals to the heart and the paranormal infuses it with the thrill of the fantastic, something we all want a little bite of (I just can't help myself).
