Recently someone told me the hero in my story wasn’t heroic and didn’t behave like a hero. He was unsympathetic. Instead of panicking or becoming defensive, I took another look at my hero and, to my horror, found the criticism was justified. While I still liked my...
My guest today is author Jessica Chambers. She has a new women's fiction release called Voices on the Waves available from Red Rose Publishing. Today Jessica is talking about characters and why she thinks they're so important. For me, the most important part of any...
I have a special guest today--author Amanda Lee who writes cozy mysteries. Amanda is the lady next to you in the grocery line or car pool. She has twins: one boy and one girl, she’s a baseball fan, she likes to decorate cakes, she rocks at Guitar Hero…oh, and she...
This post is inspired by Heather at The Galaxy Express and her post, Attention, please! This is your heroine speaking. Dear Author, I salute you. You sit for long hours in front of the computer as you labor over our stories. Without you none of us would be here....
A book is a sum of things—characters, setting and description, dialogue, pace and plot. It’s the combination of all of these elements, done in the right way that makes a book exciting and sought after by readers. It takes a lot of work to get a book to a standard...
