Tag: "romance"
Writestream Tuesday welcomes author Casey Dawes and Freedom Forge Press founder Eric Egger, June 11 — UPDATED with Archive
Please join me for Writestream Tuesday on June 11 when my guests will be best-selling romantic suspense author Casey Dawes and founder of Freedom Forge Press Eric Egger. In the first half of the show, I’ll talk to Casey about her stories about love, her experience with self-publishing, her thoughts on social media marketing for [...]
Writestream Tuesday with M.V. Freeman and Jamie K. Wilson, May 7 at 1 p.m. Eastern
Join me for another fun, informative and talkative Writestream broadcast on Tuesday, May 7 at 1 p.m. Eastern when I welcome two wonderful authors/writers to the program. In the first half of the show urban fantasy/romance author M.V. Freeman joins me to discuss her award-winning debut novel, Incandescent, along with her thoughts on writing, publishing [...]
Chapter One: Sea To Shining Sea
Note: This is still a work in progress, so I am sure there are still many changes ahead. I definitely welcome feedback in the comments if you are so inclined! ∞ Chapter One ∞ Moonlight glistened on the tranquil sea as the taxi cab steadily cruised down A1A in Boca Raton. The weary traveler [...]
The Daunting Task of Writing a Tasteful, Compelling Love Scene: Chapter 34 of Water Signs
Or, as my lovable smart-aleck writer-friend Don calls it, Chapter Fornication. He kids of course, being one of the book’s staunchest fans as well as someone who understands the novel’s underlying themes and ultimate championing of traditional values. Having been raised with similar values as an Evangelical Christian, Don (like so many other readers) relates to [...]
Fact Versus Fiction in Water Signs
For someone who’s been in the habit of journaling for nearly all of my life, it’s strange I did not take the time to write about the emotional phone conversations I shared with “Ken” in the months preceding the release of Water Signs. Perhaps because I was so busy channeling all of the energy and [...]
Serendipity and the Psychic: Water Signs’ Real-Life Back Story, Continued
Aside from a devoted family, there is nothing quite so precious as a loyal, trusted friend. I’ve heard the saying many times, that if you have one good friend, you are truly blessed; I have been blessed infinitely in this area, since I have many dear, loyal friends whom I know have my best interests [...]
More Random Thoughts on the Writing Process
In my last post, I started to delve a little deeper into the fusion of fact and fiction, and some of the literary techniques I employed in penning Water Signs. There’s also a bit of personal intrigue intertwined in the entire experience — things I haven’t previously shared on my blog. First though, I want [...]
God and Spirituality in Water Signs, Part Two
In Part One, I discussed the prevalence of faith, God and spirituality in Water Signs, and the important role they play in the development of the plot and characters. Coming from a traditional home and raised in the Catholic Church, it never occurred to me that everyday activities — like reading my daily horoscope with my mom [...]
Cyberspace and the Single (Conservative) Girl, Part Two
Published by Parcbench on March 18, 2010: As I discussed in Part One, while it’s easy to blame the internet for the plethora of dishonest players, the truth is, it is simply another vehicle through which to play the serial dating game. In the 21st Century, technology has provided an efficient method for both the upstanding [...]
How To Turn Fact Into Fiction, Part Four
More thoughts on the reconciliation theme as it relates to real life transforming into fiction. In How To Turn Fact Into Fiction, Part Three I drew a comparison/contrast between the characters of Dr. Joseph Rose and Ken Lockheart, the two embodiments of The American Dream in Water Signs. Though generations apart, both Joseph and Ken [...]
How To Turn Fact Into Fiction, Part Three
Today’s installment draws a comparison/contrast between Water Signs’ main male character, Ken Lockheart, and Dr. Joseph Rose, the two most important men in heroine Madeline Rose’s life. As I’ve noted in previous posts, both are representations of the American Dream, though generations apart, and both are based on real people who impacted my life to [...]
How To Turn A Real-Life Guy Into A Fictional Hero, Part 2
The process of transforming a real person — in this case, a former romantic interest — into a heroic, fictional character was quite interesting, to say the least. As I noted in How To Turn A Real-Life Guy Into A Fictional Hero, Part One, memory can be a tricky mechanism. At first, when the floodgates [...]
How To Turn A Real-Life Guy Into A Fictional Hero, Part One
Although most of my Water Signs characters are inspired by and/or based upon real people I’ve known or met in my lifetime, at some point during the writing process, they took on rich, full identities that extended far and beyond their initial conceptions. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of my two protagonists, Ken [...]
Water Signs: Countering The Culture of Self-Absorption
No mere love story, Water Signs celebrates the values that made America the “last, best hope on earth.” In today’s climate of government irresponsibility, where the same “leaders” who helped cause the economic meltdown (e.g. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank vis-à-vis Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) are not only absolved of all culpability, but actually permitted to retain [...]
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