We’re having a little discussion on the Pink Petal Books Reader Group about heroes, Alpha, Beta, Omega, Cowboy, Cop, Construction Worker, Corporate Giant… It got me to thinking, who ARE my heroes? What are they? Do they fit neatly into the Greek alphabet or do they cross the lines? I do, after all, love to [...]

I’ve taken an old acquaintance of mine from The Bar and breathed new life into him. Or rather, have begun to breathe new life into him. Weylyn Randall, my perpetually horny werewolf, will be making his book debut in Common Ground, due out in April 2010. I’ve only just started work on CG, and it’s [...]

Well, I did it. I killed off Macaire the Fallen Angel. Those of you who read my earlier post about Macaire know this wasn’t an easy thing to do. Originally, Macaire was supposed to be redeemed at the end of this part of his story. However, in my head, I visualized Macaire as Heath Ledger. [...]

For the past couple of years, I’ve been immersed in the Otherworld, which is the world where the Bar story takes place. In my head however, is this similar but alternate world that I call the Darkworld. My Pixie Prince story takes place in the Darkworld as do its two sequels. World building is different [...]

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to get two characters together for the first time. You ponder all the different ways that first kiss could go… So I’m writing these two characters and I’m coming up on the kiss, and suddenly, I’m not sure how I want it to go. Since I was [...]

Characters tend to take up a lot of space in a writer’s head. At the moment, I have so many of them in there that sometimes they argue with one another about who has the right to push to the fore and be written today. This can be a little confusing to me, as the [...]

Perhaps I was hasty in my assessment of my rejection letter. Perhaps that letter was necessary in a karmic way to bring me to a different place with my story Silver Linings. When Mary Winter pointed out to me that I’d used the passive voice in the beginning of Silver Linings, I gasped. I hate [...]

I awoke this morning to an email from a Wild Rose editor who rejected Silver Linings. It didn’t depress me. In fact, I found it really interesting and it raised some intriguing questions for me. The first thing that I found interesting is that she said the “first 11 pages gave nothing but back story [...]

So the other man in the menage didn’t wanna talk to me. He was letting Jared do all the talking. However, I think he’s been hanging out with Jen’s characters because when I was in the shower this morning, he explained to me that he was pissed. He’s not a Tim. He’s not an Austin. [...]

Sometimes my characters talk too much. Here’s an example of this. The menage story started to take shape because the heroine started talking to me about one of the two heroes. She really likes him. He’s really hot. She drooled over him a little and then fell silent. So he started talking to me. He [...]

So, by now you know that I submitted a short story to Wild Rose Press. What you don’t know is that I had to write a query letter for it. Now, my experience with query letters is pretty much nil. I never needed one to post something on the internet, but now we’re talking real [...]