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September 18, 2012
SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Erica Szabo is holding a short story competition on her website.
Readers and Authors alike visit her website, discover new authors and help promote yourself in the literary world.
Keep on reading and writing!
September 17, 2012
Author interview no.494 with writer Deniz Bevan
Reblogged from Morgen Bailey's Writing Blog:
Welcome to the four hundred and ninety-fourth of my blog interviews with novelists, poets, short story authors, biographers, agents, publishers and more. Today’s is with historical romance / paranormal romance author Deniz Bevan. A list of interviewees (blogged and scheduled) can be found here. If you like what you read, please do go and investigate further.
Morgen: Hello, Deniz.
September 15, 2012
MUSIC AND LITERATURE
As a reader you often wonder what kind of music you want playing in your ear as you read.
But as an author what kind of music do you listen to when you read. Do you wish you could get your readers to play that same music as they read your work?
As an author my answer is yes.
It sort of helps them get into the mood that you were in when you were writing.
Some people dance to and not listen to music, the words, the tone in which is being sang can put a person in a certain mood.
The emotion that is envoked when you get to a love scene and the girl is putting a show for her guy and Beyonce’s Dance for you is in your ear. It’s Perfect!
I think the one person who had such an Idea is El Jame with her Fifty Shades books. The music to set you in the mood.
Another example (but a movie) is when watching the Breaking Dawn scene when Bella and Edward finally make love and Turning page is playing. That song definitely made the scene for me.
So should author’s put a play list on the back page of their book, just to help their readers get in the right mood?
September 12, 2012
Celebrating Carmen DeSousa's ENTANGLED DREAMS with a Giveaway!
Celebrating Carmen DeSousa’s ENTANGLED DREAMS! Enter to win one of her books by leaving a comment below!
Today I’m highlighting Carmen DeSousa’s third book with 5 Prince Publishing, ENTANGLED DREAMS. Life is not a fairy tale and again, Carmen brings to us likeable characters who are flawed and the reader cheers them on until the end.
When Alexandra Nicole was eight, she thought she was a princess in a fairytale.
September 9, 2012
Christina OW
Reblogged from Geostan51's Blog:
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:
What is your favorite thing about being a writer?
Being able to express my imagination on paper and the fact that there is no limit or boundaries when creating an entirely fictitious new life I can live in for a few months.
What genre(s) do you write?
Romance, Paranormal, Suspense, Contemporary
What genres and authors would we find you?
Carmen DeSousa.... Entangled Dreams
This is Carmen DeSousa’s third book with 5 Prince Publishing, ENTANGLED DREAMS. Life is not a fairy tale and again, Carmen brings to us likeable characters who are flawed and the reader cheers them on until the end.
When Alexandra Nicole was eight, she thought she was a princess in a fairytale. But after a tragic accident shatters her magical life, she finds herself in a cold and heartless reality.
Pen Name: Carmen DeSousa, Interview
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:
What is your favorite thing about being a writer?
I love being able to create characters that reach into a reader’s soul, making them feel as if they are living and breathing individuals.
What genre(s) do you write?
Short answer: Romantic-Suspense
Long answer: I characterize my stories as modern-day fairytales, as they are overflowing with romance, mystery, suspense, and of course, tragedy.
Interview with Sara Barnard
Reblogged from Geostan51's Blog:
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:
What is your favorite thing about being a writer?
I have enjoyed creating stories since I was a little girl, playing with my dogs in the backyard. I remember all through school, I wanted to be a forest ranger … we would take our aptitude tests and I would answer all of the questions so that it would point to “outdoors career” but whenever it came to talking about the classes about making that happen, it was all science-related, which made me kind of turn up my nose.
September 8, 2012
shades of spring 1964; letters to my daughter description and chapter 1
Maxine tries to deal with her mother’s death in her own way. But when she finds old letters revealing her family’s past she finds herself creating a bond with someone else, not knowing how far their history goes. Taylor is amused and infuriated with Marine, and no matter how hard he tries he can’t stay away from her. Now he finds himself being her main supporter, the only one she can lean on as she travels back to the past.
