June Shaw's Blog, page 19
August 10, 2014
Guest Author Paul D. Marks On Writing
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August 5, 2014
That revision letter...
That revision letter is my excuse--no time for blogging once again. My editor is quite right, I have to rewrite the last chapter.
So I'm going to post a link to an article I wrote for an online magazine:
http://kingsriverlife.com/08/30/trillian-an-animal-rescue-adventure/
The only thing it has to do with writing is that I wrote it.
Enjoy!
Carola
So I'm going to post a link to an article I wrote for an online magazine:
http://kingsriverlife.com/08/30/trillian-an-animal-rescue-adventure/
The only thing it has to do with writing is that I wrote it.
Enjoy!
Carola
Translations
by Carola
The first two Daisy Dalrymple mysteries have now come out in Hungarian. They have used the UK covers, but the titles are in Hungarian, of course.
This is Death at Wentwater Court. I'm told it translates roughly as Daisy and the Frozen Don Juan. Which is all very well, but makes it liable to be confused with Fall of a Philanderer--though that takes place in summer...
This is The Winter Garden Mystery. The translation is more or less Daisy and the Garden of Mystery. Fair enou...
The first two Daisy Dalrymple mysteries have now come out in Hungarian. They have used the UK covers, but the titles are in Hungarian, of course.
This is Death at Wentwater Court. I'm told it translates roughly as Daisy and the Frozen Don Juan. Which is all very well, but makes it liable to be confused with Fall of a Philanderer--though that takes place in summer...
This is The Winter Garden Mystery. The translation is more or less Daisy and the Garden of Mystery. Fair enou...
July 25, 2014
Starting a New Series
by June Shaw
Hm, starting to write a new series is much more difficult than I'd expected.
Of course the characters are different and so is the tone -- to some extent. I'd thought I wouldn't put quite so much romance in this one, but relationships jumped in. Oh right, I think most lives are enhanced with having a loved one, or even a really important person in your life.
My first series features a spunky widow of a certain age who'd trying (without much success) to avoid her hunky dude, and all...
Hm, starting to write a new series is much more difficult than I'd expected.
Of course the characters are different and so is the tone -- to some extent. I'd thought I wouldn't put quite so much romance in this one, but relationships jumped in. Oh right, I think most lives are enhanced with having a loved one, or even a really important person in your life.
My first series features a spunky widow of a certain age who'd trying (without much success) to avoid her hunky dude, and all...
July 23, 2014
A Weird Kind of Storyboarding
by Jackie King
The amount of time it took me to write my second Grace Cassidy mystery, THE CORPSE WHO WALKED IN THE DOOR, was downright embarrassing. To avoid this with my third in the series, I researchedstoryboarding and plotting. Then I told anyone who would listen that I would block out each and every scene before I typed one word in my third Grace Cassidy mystery.
Well, I lied!
Sorry about that.
My intentions, as always, were pristine. (And, yes. I do know the name of the road that’s lined w...
The amount of time it took me to write my second Grace Cassidy mystery, THE CORPSE WHO WALKED IN THE DOOR, was downright embarrassing. To avoid this with my third in the series, I researchedstoryboarding and plotting. Then I told anyone who would listen that I would block out each and every scene before I typed one word in my third Grace Cassidy mystery.
Well, I lied!
Sorry about that.
My intentions, as always, were pristine. (And, yes. I do know the name of the road that’s lined w...
July 21, 2014
My writing process
by Bill Kirton
Whenever I’m asked questions about my writing, I always seem to find out something new for myself. Here are my answers to some questions put to me in a recent interview.
What am I working on?
Ahem, this is an embarrassing question because I’ve been working on it for such a long time. It’s the sequel to my novel The Figurehead. That was set in Aberdeen in 1840 and featured John Grant, a figurehead carver, and Helen Anderson, the daughter of a shipowner. It was a crime novel (b...
Whenever I’m asked questions about my writing, I always seem to find out something new for myself. Here are my answers to some questions put to me in a recent interview.What am I working on?
Ahem, this is an embarrassing question because I’ve been working on it for such a long time. It’s the sequel to my novel The Figurehead. That was set in Aberdeen in 1840 and featured John Grant, a figurehead carver, and Helen Anderson, the daughter of a shipowner. It was a crime novel (b...
July 9, 2014
Today’s Guest Blogger Is Lois Winston
Lois WinstonI recently attended a family reunion for my husband’s maternal side of the family. Most of the attendees had multiple, higher-education degrees from Ivy League colleges. Some were classical and jazz musicians. One was a composer. Another, an award-winning movie and TV producer and writer with a gazillion credits to his name, including Emmys and a Peabody award.I had never previously met many of the attendees because my husband’s aunt, who had organized the shindig, had also invite...
July 7, 2014
A Chance Occurrence of Events Remarkable either for Being Simultaneous or for Apparently Being Connected
by Bill Kirton
My model of The Scottish MaidForgive the title but I’m still working on the sequel to The Figurehead and I find myself doing quite a lot of Victorian-speak. It is, however, that activity that’s produced this blog. So let’s start with a question: what connects the first ship to have a clipper bow, Monsieur and Madame LaFarge, 19thcentury melodramas and me? The question is rhetorical, of course, although if any of you do have the right answer, that merely adds to the f...
My model of The Scottish MaidForgive the title but I’m still working on the sequel to The Figurehead and I find myself doing quite a lot of Victorian-speak. It is, however, that activity that’s produced this blog. So let’s start with a question: what connects the first ship to have a clipper bow, Monsieur and Madame LaFarge, 19thcentury melodramas and me? The question is rhetorical, of course, although if any of you do have the right answer, that merely adds to the f...
July 2, 2014
Where do you get your ideas?
Carola
One of the questions writers of fiction hear most often (if not the most frequent) is "Where do you get your ideas?" I usually give a semi-facetious answer: They're all floating around in the ether and when you're tuned in they just come to you.
Facetious, but as good an explanation as any. I can pinpoint where certain books started. Sometimes I began with a great title: Styx and Stones, for instance.
Once I had that, it clearly had to be a poisoned-pen story, so the characters, pl...
One of the questions writers of fiction hear most often (if not the most frequent) is "Where do you get your ideas?" I usually give a semi-facetious answer: They're all floating around in the ether and when you're tuned in they just come to you.
Facetious, but as good an explanation as any. I can pinpoint where certain books started. Sometimes I began with a great title: Styx and Stones, for instance.
Once I had that, it clearly had to be a poisoned-pen story, so the characters, pl...
June 28, 2014
Romance in Mysteries
June Shaw
Do you enjoy a little or a lot of romance in a mystery? I do because I believe mysteries should encompass all parts of a person's life.
I took part in a panel discussion about this once at a conference in Dallas. The author speaking before me said his detective main character always had romance and paid for it.
I then told that even though my mom was elderly at the time, she and her good friend always wore their lucky red panties to Bingo. Mom said they were for luck--but I knew bette...
Do you enjoy a little or a lot of romance in a mystery? I do because I believe mysteries should encompass all parts of a person's life.
I took part in a panel discussion about this once at a conference in Dallas. The author speaking before me said his detective main character always had romance and paid for it.
I then told that even though my mom was elderly at the time, she and her good friend always wore their lucky red panties to Bingo. Mom said they were for luck--but I knew bette...
