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This is my second post in the Goodreads “All Author Blog Blitz”. I’ll be featuring Melanie Cusick-Jones. After graduating from The University of Sheffield with an English Literature Masters in 2003, Melanie has been writing fiction – time permitting – ever since. The Ambrosia Sequence (started in 2008) and The Elementals (begun in 2004) are both ongoing, extended projects each containing several novels, aimed primarily at young adults and hover somewhere in the middle of sci-fi, futuristic and fantasy genres. ‘Hope’s Daughter’, released in January 2012, is her debut novel and the first of The Ambrosia Sequence; the companion book ‘The Rainbow Maker’s Tale’ is due in 2013, with the sequel ‘Outlanders’ coming in late 2013. due after that. When she’s not writing Melanie enjoys the wet weather of the north of England with her dogs or disappearing into a book for a few hours (no surprise there then). Unfortunately,...
This is a “All Authors Blog Blitz” day from Goodreads. I’ve been given two authors to blog about today. It’s fun getting to know authors from all over the world and in different genres. My first guest today is Mariana Llanos. Blog Blitz featuring Mariana Llanos author of Tristan Wolf Where do you live? I live in the beautiful State of Oklahoma. I’ve lived here for eleven years but I’m original from Lima, Peru. How long have you been a writer? I write since I was very young. I started writing poetry and soon started doing school plays. I loved to adapt classic plays like Faust or Romeo and Juliet and turn them into comical skits. Then I moved on to short stories, some fantastic, some poetic-romantic, some others humorous. Writing has always been a part of me…but I decided to publish just a couple of years ago when I...
As a writer you have to have some patience. Unfortunately when a story is pressing in on you patience is hard to find. When a story pops into my brain it normally comes in with a vengeance. It presses on my brain until I start writing it. I have to relieve the pressure of getting it started. Usually I get the story outlined before I forget what needs to be said. When I start writing the story I get excited and can’t hardly wait to see how the middle and end unfold. I have to contain myself and not just jump through the story and leave out some important information. Sometimes I tend to want to see how it ends before it even begins. That’s kind of like reading a book and skipping to the end because you just have to know how it ends. Remember if you do an...
… and read her new e-novella, THE MAD EARL’S BRIDE It’s been a while since I’ve read a new Loretta Chase romance. Well, about exactly as long as since the last one was published (2012). It pretty much goes without saying for this historical romance junkie that LC is on my DIK, must-read, auto-buy, and every other tip-top book list I’ve got. So I was pretty excited to get my hands on the new re-issue of The Mad Earl’s Bride (originally anthologized in Three Weddings and a Kiss, 1995). Something to hold me over until the next Dressmakers book is out! While it’s not Lord Perfect, which was, for me, well…. perfect, this fun and funny novella is reminding me of all the reasons LC remains at the pinnacle of the genre for me. Five fast reasons… There will be banter. And delicious long conversations. This one has steamy dialogue...
Several people have asked me where I can be found on social media. So here are some of the sites that I’m on and the links. Come by and follow me for all the fun and excitement that goes on when social media takes over Twitter: https://twitter.com/StephanieHurt4 Website: www.stephanie-hurt.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/stephanie-hurt/48/34/578 Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/StephanieHurt Independent Author Network: http://www.independentauthornetwork.com/stephanie-hurt.html Avon Publishing Contributor: http://www.avonromance.com/user/stephanie-payne-hurt Facebook: www.facebook.com/stephanie.hurt.330 Shelfari: http://www.shelfari.com/StephanieHurt LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/home/StephanieHurt Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/hurt6862/ So come on and join the fun! Tagged: Blitz, Books, Facebook, Follow, Pinterest, Social Media, Twitter
One of the hardest things in writing is the book description. Well at least for me. It’s so hard to put into a short paragraph the book you’ve poured your heart into. How do you summarize thousands of words into a short space. Here are a couple of pointers that I go by: 1: Don’t over write the description. This means that you don’t need to overdo it. You don’t need to tell everything. If you go into too much detail you lose the reader before they even get started. 2: Use a lot of descriptive words. You need to make the reader want to read your book. By using descriptive words you can lure them in. 3: Don’t give away too much. I read a description one day that actually told the plot of the book. I realized I didn’t want to read it after reading the description because...
