Interview with Sue Holston How do you manage to come up with such detailed backgrounds, not just the characters, but the worlds too? For our new book, Facing the Music, Sue and I drew from our experiences visiting Los Angeles. We both had been to the Hotel Café, where our rock band kicks off their…
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RJ Scott – Long books vs short books
Some things to take into consideration as you read this: I am 22000 words into Big Sky, my first book in a series set around Crooked Tree Ranch in Montana. I am aiming to write around 60,000 on each of the books. Heart Of Texas was a 90,000 word book, Oracle 60 or so, recently…
Friday Interview – Iyana Jenna
Art for promotional purposes only RJ, thank you so much for the chance to visit your blog! And thank you for the questions. They are all so intriguing but only three? Hmm, let’s see. 😀 What made you decide to start writing? What was your personal “kick-off”? The one that made me go madly in…
RJ Scott – The Great Train Robbery
Headlines History in my back yard… ~*~Police are re-creating the original call log of their investigations into the Great Train Robbery. They are tweeting the call log live, starting just after 3am on Thursday. https://twitter.com/ThamesVP ~*~ Just after 3am on Thursday 8th August 1963 a gang of professional thieves made history when they held up…
WIP excerpt – Big Sky… Crooked Tree Ranch, Montana book 1
COMPLETELY UNEDITED… rofl Problem was tonight even Josh was subdued. He picked at his spaghetti and pulled it apart on his plate. “What’s wrong buddy?” Jayden asked softly. Josh raised his gaze to Jayden. “Something happened at school,” he began. “What?” Josh was happy at his school, he had a couple of little friends, and…
Author Interview – N. Wood
What inspires you? Pretty much anything fills me with inspiration for a new story. I could be driving along and the lyrics of a song give me a full story idea. Or I could be sitting on the beach with my dogs and something completely un-beach related will pop into my mind. I once gained…
RJ Scott – Preparing a document for Smashwords
I thought I would just list the types of things i do to a file before I submit it to Smashwords. I use Smashwords because they upload to Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple… etc For an example file for layout please click here… https://www.mediafire.com/?pzldcehsbcwhdzx They have a long list of things that the author needs…
Catching Kit by Kay Berrisford
Catching Kit by Kay Berrisford I found another new author from my meet ups at the UK Meet… This time it is the turn of Kay Berrisford…. I just finished Catching Kit and I LOVED it… I recommend it anyone who likes a big strong alpha with a kink for woman’s underwear. Fantastic world building…
Friday Interview – E.J. Sutter
Tetley’s or PG Tips? PG Tips every time. Or Wine. How do you keep everything straight? Especially when you have characters from different books fighting for attention. Scrivener works for me. When an idea shouts at you for another book, you can create index cards, note down the ideas, and then file them in each…
Competition!
Competition CLOSED… Winner: Louise… email sent…