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Collected Works from an Unrepentant Writer
Maria Lima is the award nominated author of the critically acclaimed Blood Lines series from Pocket Books. She's been blogging about life and writing since 2003.
Collected Works from an Unrepentant Writer is a series of essays and blog posts from over the years, addressing such varied topics as the writing process to miscellaneous thoughts about life and social mores to thoughts about television episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
PLUS! Bonus content for fans of the Blood Lines series!
Collected Works from an Unrepentant Writer is a series of essays and blog posts from over the years, addressing such varied topics as the writing process to miscellaneous thoughts about life and social mores to thoughts about television episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
PLUS! Bonus content for fans of the Blood Lines series!
103 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 27, 2011
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About the author
Maria Lima
36 books121 followersI write dead people...no really.
I'm a writing geek with one foot in the real world and the other in the make-believe.
Sometime before the Revolution, I was born in Matanzas, Cuba, to a family of voracious readers and would-be writers.
In 1961, when it was clear that the situation wasn't going to change, my family emigrated to the United States, where I then discovered the magic of books...loads of books. Starting with the public library, followed by the Scholastic book sales in elementary school, then on from there.
As a child, storytelling was part of our family dinner hour, when my father, who dreamt of becoming a writer, spoke of heroes, heroines and battles royale. In this was mixed a love of both fictional and non-fictional worlds, of history and splendor, dragons and them that slayed 'em. It's no wonder that I grew up composing stories.
The writing bug didn't get much of a workout in real life, however, as the corporate life only drew on my journalism degree as I cranked out marketing copy, feature stories and book reviews.
The fiction muse kept calling and in the spring of 2005, was finally fed as my first published short story, "The Butler Didn't Do It" was published in Chesapeake Crimes I and garnered an Agatha Award nomination for Best Short Story.
In 2007, my first novel, Matters of the Blood, debuted from Juno Books, then, an imprint of Wildside Press. Blood Bargain, 2nd in the Blood Lines series came out November, 2008.
In January 2009, Juno Books became an imprint of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. The Blood Lines series is reborn again as Pocket re-releases the first two books in September & October 2009, followed by Blood Kin in November.
In my day job, I work for an interactive Web agency in the DC area. In the rest of my life, I'm a writer, a fangrrl and as always, a voracious reader.
I'm a writing geek with one foot in the real world and the other in the make-believe.
Sometime before the Revolution, I was born in Matanzas, Cuba, to a family of voracious readers and would-be writers.
In 1961, when it was clear that the situation wasn't going to change, my family emigrated to the United States, where I then discovered the magic of books...loads of books. Starting with the public library, followed by the Scholastic book sales in elementary school, then on from there.
As a child, storytelling was part of our family dinner hour, when my father, who dreamt of becoming a writer, spoke of heroes, heroines and battles royale. In this was mixed a love of both fictional and non-fictional worlds, of history and splendor, dragons and them that slayed 'em. It's no wonder that I grew up composing stories.
The writing bug didn't get much of a workout in real life, however, as the corporate life only drew on my journalism degree as I cranked out marketing copy, feature stories and book reviews.
The fiction muse kept calling and in the spring of 2005, was finally fed as my first published short story, "The Butler Didn't Do It" was published in Chesapeake Crimes I and garnered an Agatha Award nomination for Best Short Story.
In 2007, my first novel, Matters of the Blood, debuted from Juno Books, then, an imprint of Wildside Press. Blood Bargain, 2nd in the Blood Lines series came out November, 2008.
In January 2009, Juno Books became an imprint of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. The Blood Lines series is reborn again as Pocket re-releases the first two books in September & October 2009, followed by Blood Kin in November.
In my day job, I work for an interactive Web agency in the DC area. In the rest of my life, I'm a writer, a fangrrl and as always, a voracious reader.
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January 3, 2012
While you could find most of the material in this book on Maria's blog or others, it's well worth the 99¢ to have it collected for offline reading.
You could look at this collection as a book on writing craft, at least as it applies to one particular mid-list urban fantasy author. There's precious little info about the mechanics of writing, which is fine because there's an overwhelming amount of that out there. What sets this apart, in a good way, is that it covers the process of how Maria turns an idea into a story. Her examples of "personal canon" are easily worth 50 pages of dry discussion from some craft book.
Overall, I was pleased with Maria's first toe-dipping into the indie water.
You could look at this collection as a book on writing craft, at least as it applies to one particular mid-list urban fantasy author. There's precious little info about the mechanics of writing, which is fine because there's an overwhelming amount of that out there. What sets this apart, in a good way, is that it covers the process of how Maria turns an idea into a story. Her examples of "personal canon" are easily worth 50 pages of dry discussion from some craft book.
Overall, I was pleased with Maria's first toe-dipping into the indie water.
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