Day 6 of Love…for the writers!

It’s officially Saturday which means today’s “Love” post is for the writers. My agent, Holly Root, is giving up a 5 page critique to one lucky writer!
Here are the deets again: You will have until … Sunday night at 9 PM CST at which time I’ll close the comments (cuz that’s about [...]

Sharing the Agent Love

This Saturday’s prize is a critique of the first five pages of someone’s manuscript by my agent, the fabulous Holly Root.
Those five pages (and your query) are your first impression and they should shine, suck the reader in and make them want more (or request the full in this case!).
Now I know some people think, [...]

Day One Of Love..Kickin It Old Skool

I decided it was only fitting that we start off our Fourteen Days of Love with a homage to what brung us–romance novels.  Specifically the old skool romance novels we snuck off our mama’s bookshelves or borrowed from friends who snuck em off THEIR mama’s bookshelves
I couldn’t even guess what the first romance [...]

Processing the Process

Last year from January to June I vomited up what, for me, is an ungodly amount of pages, mostly on proposals so, of course, none of them are done. One is still being shopped while two are shelved for the time being.
BUT from July to December I wandered around angsting about not [...]

A Blast From the Past…circa 2005

*or Why I don’t have Guest Bloggers*
“So  Gabriel, may I call you Gabriel?” I swing my leg nervously, not at all at ease with my interviewee.
“You can call me whatever you want.”  He gives me his wickedest grin, probably the same grin he used to seduce Sera.
“Dear Heavens, Sera never stood a chance, did she?”  [...]

 

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