AKA What’s in a Name Part II So, I honestly thought I was being obvious in my hints, but it goes to show you that an author has the hardest time leaving the “right” amount of clues. Either that or you guys were all like “whatever–so your narrator doesn’t have a name….” *coughs* Yeah, so I’d like to say […]

  Recently my publisher and I went on the hunt for a perfect title for a sweet romance novella…and it nearly ended in tears, ropes, and eye bleach. This is the first title I’ve really changed after submission, and while the original title was good…it was also a bondage title…several times over.  Oops. We thought it’d be easy to find […]

  So, you know you’re working on something weird when your husband buys you the above Hot Wheels for inspiration, and you’re all, “AWESOME! That’s perfect!!!” If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen tweets about rats and more rats and then some rats. My current WIP is very rat-centric. It’s a romance where a mad scientist crosses wires with […]

  Since I’ve been buried in writing and revising and gotten onto entirely new watchlists, I thought I’d do another Watchlist Wednesday for the last two weeks. Hey! This weekend is a full moon weekend (almost…close enough) so I’ll be posting two more parts of the serial on Friday and Saturday…come back and read and comment. *shiny, hopeful eyes* So, […]

  Last night, I taught a sketching class to a few girls…or I tried to anyway. (I’m mostly self-taught.)  And I took this unfinished self-portrait to show them. This is one of the last paintings I worked on before I set my paintbrushes aside to work on writing. And I think about it a lot. I want to finish it, […]

  So, this has come up in my mind a bit lately as I’ve wanted to sub or I’ve changed things to fit submission guidelines. And I’m staring down a manuscript that I’ll need to figure out how I want to handle the POV. With Adult Romance, it’s customary for there to be a few unstated or sometimes stated guidelines: […]

  I don’t think I heard or understood the word trope until the last five years or so, so let me throw out a definition–though even a few tropes would define it really… A trope is a common (sometimes over-used) plot device or plot-line. If you’ve got an hour or two to kill, check out the site TV Tropes –loads […]

  So, I mentioned I was working on a novel called Push Me and posted an excerpt last week. Well, it’s done–I’ve even put it through a few revisions with the help of betas. It’ll probably get shelved for a bit until I figure out what to do with it. When I write, I get sucked into the world so […]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything I’ve been working on–other than the occasional tweets. I’ve been mostly working on things that are either in the process before or after submission–so I’m not supposed to post stuff from them. Since I’m actually waiting on manuscripts somewhere in that process, I decided to work on something I’d been planning for […]