As you may have seen from my Perfectly Flawed List of Books, characters with an easy run at life don’t interest me as much. I love characters who have bigger things at play than a little misunderstanding. In On His List, the main character Owen has OCD. In Past My Defenses, Vanessa had a real battle with allergies and […]
You want an excerpt from my Big Bad Wolf book? I know you do. Here you go…since you asked so nicely… “Did you get me ice cream?” “Either that or I got me a whole lot of ice cream.” He heard the freezer door open, and she popped off the top of the ice cream while opening the […]
Guess what is out and a special price of only 99 cents??? That’s right! The second book of the Taming the Pack series. (It can be read as a standalone though many of the characters appear originally in Past My Defenses.) A bunch of people asked if Jordan was getting his own book…well, here’s his story and you get to […]
I’ve mentioned I’m an avid reader which has spilled over to writing, so you know I’m a kindred soul and you can tell me…what turns those pages for you? I’ve noticed that we’re drawn to books that we can relate to in some form–possibly they pull us in because in some way we can sympathize with the characters or […]
Okay, so we’ve talked about my book binges and I already shared my list of books with flawed heroes and heroines. This is more of a work in progress, but I also love romances or fiction w/romance that has one or more characters with a high I.Q. I especially like the nerd, geek, genius who finds the right average Joe […]
I love a good villain. There. I said it. And I hate bad villains. Oh, not villains that are very villainous–I mean I hate villains who miss the mark. Villains who, when you get to the end of a story, are easy to overcome. The villains who fail to be a foil to the hero. (A hero is only […]
“Where do you get your ideas? Easily the number one question authors are asked in my opinion. And also the most baffling to us. Why? Well, here’s a day in the life of an author: For some inexplicable reason, I wanted cash to pay for my lunch today, so I stopped by an ATM. Locking my car, I […]
Likable vs. Unlikable Characters This topic interests me from both sides. As a reader, I’ve noticed that nothing tanks my enjoyment/rating of a book as much as a character I’m supposed to like, but don’t. As a writer, this is something you have to straddle with flawed and realistic characters–have I made them empathetic or just pathetic? Do […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about why people choose the books they do. Most of my friends are readers both online and in real life. However most of my friends online read in very different genres from those in my real life (with exceptions of course.) And while I think it’s partly because I’ve made friends online with similar […]
When I started writing a novel about an allergic shifter, I knew I was in familiar territory. Not because I can change to a wolf at will—as far as I’ve noticed—but because the idea was born of aggravation with my allergies. I’ve been fighting ridiculous allergies my whole life. How ridiculous? Well…when I was a child, I noticed some of […]
