One Sentence

Over on the YA forum at the Absolute Write Water Cooler, we’re having fun with a little game: Your WIP In One Sentence. I have already posted my four up there, but I want to share them over here. They aren’t perfect, and they miss a heck of a lot out, and sometimes they seem [...]

D: Is My Expression Right Now

Everywhere I go I see, in the YA sector, people going, “NO MORE VAMPIRES!” and other words to that effect. Every time I see that, though, I just want to yell back, “BUT MINE AREN’T IN HIGH SCHOOL!”   Delia’s over eighteen for a reason people. Just as Daniel looks about twenty-five. Definitely not in [...]

Thanks For The Memories

When I woke up this morning, I found in my inbox an email from my beta, JK. Attached were the edited versions of the last three chapters of Blood Bound. That means the second major round of editing, and about the third or fourth round of editing altogether. This is not the rough-around-the-edges Blood Bound [...]

I’m Not Very Good With Names

It’s not just in real life that they are not my strength. Sometimes it takes me forever to find that perfect name for a character, and I sometimes go through different variations and stages of names to find “the perfect one”. And until then I just have placeholders. One example would be one who has [...]

The Only Colour That Matters

The right-inset image was brought to my attention via the Allison and Busby blog. It’s a t-shirt from CafePress with the phrase “vampires prefer brunettes”1 – a reference to the line said by Edward in Twilight2 And it made me think, on characters, author appeal and funny. Now, while one of my vampires (the adorkable [...]