UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2010)

UniquelyMoi ~ BlithelyBookish’s comments from the Pamela Clare ~ Fan Group group.

I thought it would be nice to have a place just to chat about our day, our family, our lives... or whatever is on your mind!

Have something you want to add to the group but you're not sure where to put it? This is the place!!!

I'm sorry to hear that, Erika. It's so sad when anyone dies, but it seems that when an author passes, a voice is silenced.

Erika wrote: "I'm reading #2... LOL Hey Julian!

I'm such a nerd"


Perhaps, but a nerd with good taste!!!

Pamela, I've read some nasty reviews (not of your books) here on Goodreads and I can only imagine what kind of unhappy people those reviewers are OFFline.

I usually don't rate or review a book's editing or grammatical errors, or little mistakes here and there unless they are really distracting! I almost always rate a book on the emotions it stirred in me. Happy, sad, giddy, excited, aroused... did I feel what the author intended? That's the bottom line for me.

Pamela, do you have a working title or an idea for Connor's book?

I'm guessing that about a month before Connor's book is released we'll do a group re-read of the first 2 books. I'm hoping so anyway.

Lady D., I've read some of your writing and it's very good. You sell yourself short!

Lady D., the Sisters of the BDB group is so supportive, that I feel like I can post anything there and get positive feedback, but I won't share with anyone in my offline life anymore. I guess I'm not cracked up to be a real writer after all.

I also started a group here on Goodreads and I'm the only member! LOL It's a place I can go post my writing and see it in a format other than Word. It really helps me catch mistakes and check for flow.

Wentworth reminds me of another favorite bad boy I love to hate - Jonas Wyatt!

Thanks, Pamela! I appreciate the input :) I think it's the readers opinions that should matter.

Yeah, I learned my lesson and no one looks at it anymore. Anything I add now will be mine, and only mine to see.

I imagine that as a published author you have to have a thick skin, but wow.. I know how much my characters mean to me and it's rough when people don't like them for whatever reason. I have a dear friend who I know would HATE the story because it's just not her thing. She loves cheesy, dime store novels... and so do I. But she'd read my prologue and I can hear in my mind exactly what she'd say.

People mean well, I know, but if I try to take everyone's suggestions and make everyone happy, it will then cease to be mine.

Pamela wrote: "And, yes, writing emotional scenes can be very emotionally draining. As I think I mentioned, RIDE THE FIRE utterly destroyed me. I was a disaster for six weeks afterward."

And that means you poured your heart and soul into it. RtF is one of the books I'm most looking forward to reading, but I know it's going to be an emotional one, so I'm waiting for the right time, for me. I become completely invested in the characters... they stop being characters and become real people... so I know it's going to impact me.

Danielle, nope, not the BDB fanfic. It's a story that took root from a scene that I've had tossing around in my mind for years. I go back and look at what I've written so far, and I know I've come a long, long way in my writing. It's all the Fhate/Dhestiny writing I've been doing, I think.

Anyway, with NaNoWriMo coming up, I'm thinking I'll take a serious look at my story again and clean it up, add the scenes that have been coming to me lately so I don't forget them. And there are some definite changes I want to make to the direction it takes.

I had allowed a "friend" to read it and it suddenly stopped being for me. It was a therapy, that writing, but she began encouraging me to go in this direction and that... and now it's been almost a year since I've even looked at it.

Live and learn, Quinn, live and learn.

Great story, Quinn!! And looky that! MelissaB is the link that brought us together as friends! :)

That's too funny, Pamela!! I would have said "He thought his voices were real, I know mine are!!!" And my family would have believed me!

I'm lucky because my kids are my greatest fans. I've got the first 8 chapters, and then all the as of yet unattached scenes printed out in a folder. I like reading it that way better. Anyway, every now and then I'll see my kids reading it. My son often reads it and asks when I'll add more. :) My oldest daughter read that prologue that had me sobbing, and she put the folder down and said "Well, shit..." and she was crying. LOL I guess that's a good sign right?

I'm looking forward to getting through 3 and then the novella for Coral so I can decide for myself. I'm finding that I keep thinking about what people said about not liking 2, etc. I wish I hadn't known ahead of time now.

I can't imagine the emotional toll it takes on an author to write those scenes that make me sob. If I'm having that reaction, what must you, as the author, feel?

The characters from the story I'm writing are so real to me, that the opening - the prologue - had me sobbing. My family must have thought I was a lunatic!

Yes, that was one of many hot scenes in these books, Danielle. **sigh**

Pamela wrote: "On that note, my editor at Berkley says she started getting calls almost as soon as I announced my new contract from people asking her whether I would be writing Connor's book. She said, "That's all they call it — Connor's book.""

If there's anything you can think that we can do, just let us know. We want Connor, Joseph, Lord William...