My Writing Process Tour

What a fun thing I was tagged on by the lovely AJ Pine! The “My Writing Process Blog Tour” is all about–connecting with other writers and readers as well, so I thought it’d be super fun to share it with you and tag a few fellow authors!

Fellow Entangled author, AJ PINE, tagged me to join the tour. Her New Adult debut, If Only, released with Entangled Embrace on March 24th, 2014. Check it out: HERE.

Here’s how the tour works. I’ve got a few questions to answer for you, and then you’ll get to meet a few other authors who will join the tour next week!

1. What am I working on?
 The second book in my Bound by Hades trilogy released last Monday, so I’m still coming down from that…But I’m super excited to be getting the next round of edits on the third book, tentatively titled Bound by Light. And amongst all that fun, I have a book releasing next month under my other name, Lynn Rush, called Absolute Zero, book 2 in my YA/NA Touch of Frost trilogy. **whew**

2. How does my work differ from others in its genre?
 New Adult is the “in between” area of Young Adult (YA) and Adult. So the paranormal YA is a little sweeter than NA, but not quite as hot as the Adult (in most cases). For example, NA deals with characters a bit more mature and a bit more experienced than YA characters,  as they face the concept: “Holy crap, I’m an adult…now what?” Or, a concept of, “Now what do I do with my life?”

3. Why do I write what I do? Oh boy, I love this question. I was asked that pretty much the day I started because of two reasons:  1) My characters were too old for YA but too young for Adult & 2) Your romance level was too hot for YA and too sweet for Adult. I was told to change it, but…I just couldn’t. I loved my stories, my characters, and the issues they were faced with. So, I just kept on writing…because I LOVED it.  J Who knew that NA would become all the rage a few years later!  J

4. How does my writing process work?
 I am SOOO a seat of the pants writer. I’ll literally wake up one morning with an idea and start typing. Blank page, everything. I love the rush of that whole process. Sometimes I’ll do a little “thinking” while I’m out biking or running…visualizing the story or the characters. And the most planning I do…those are mind maps. Have you heard of those? Well, they’re just me writing on a piece of paper whatever comes to mind for characteristics, story problems…or whatever. Think of it was free association. I love it!

That’s all from me. Next week you can learn about a couple other fabulous authors

Chris Cannon:

Chris Cannon lives in Southern Illinois with her husband and her three dogs, Pete the shih-tzu who sleeps on her desk while she writes, Molly the ever-shedding yellow lab, and Tyson the sandwich-stealing German Shepherd Beagle. She believes coffee is the Elixir of Life. Most evenings after work, you can find her sucking down caffeine and writing fire-breathing paranormal adventures. Her Paranormal YA romance, Going Down In Flames comes out in 2014.

 

Rachel Firasek:  I’m supposed to give you all kind of goodie information about me, but I often find long winded paragraphs boring, so I’m just going to give you a list of things that describe me. I’d love to see how many things we have in common.

Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter, Me.

Wife, Mother, Sister, Daughter, Me.

Boss, Author, Queen, Overachiever.

Mischief maker, teaser, taunter, lil’ devil.

Water burner, laundry stacker, collector of clutter.

Survivor, Cancer Slayer, Denier of Death.

Artist, Crochet dabbler, mess maker.

42 playing, bones throwing, trickster.

Texan, Accent mimicker, horny toad.

Lizard lady, chameleon, nature blender.

Bye ya’ll.