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A J Hartley

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This is so cool – the comment thread of Faith’s post yesterday has turned into an honest-to-goodness character development workshop! I’m fascinated by what’s been posted so far, and I’m dying to keep it going. Instead of a new post today, I’m ordering everyone to click back to Faith’s post and keep talking. [...]

Character Development – Show Me

We were down yesteday due to hosting problems. Happy to be back up and running!
This week at Magicalwords.net, I will build on the character development part of last week’s blog and show how I created and developed Thorn St. Croix for the Rogue Mage series: BloodRing, Seraphs, and Host. I feel [...]

Artistic Choices and the Market

Two common themes coming together in this post:  First off, I’ve written and spoken before about how often my characters surprise me in some way, be it through the assertion of a trait I hadn’t seen in them previously, or through the unexpected twisting of a plot thread.  My favorite example of this — one you’ve heard [...]

Swag Blog — Kim Harrison

            I’ve been lurking on Magical Words for months, seeing the advice and techniques of four excellent authors, not to mention the industry experts.  When Faith asked me to guest blog, I was at a loss.  What could I bring that no one had already touched upon?  Until I thought of [...]

Oops!

At my very first book signing, I was sitting at the table wearing my leather tricorn hat.  I’d had a nice turnout, and it was almost time to leave, when a woman approached my table.  “I saw your pirate hat from upstairs,” she said, smiling.  “My daughter competes in pageants, and we did a whole [...]

Character Development – What is it Really?

First – shameless self promotion! I was informed last night that I am up for a reader’s choice award! Please, please, please go to UrbanFantasyLand and vote for me and your other favorite authors before January 30th!
Rah rah rah! Vote Vote Vote! Whoowhoo!
Ahem….(Carefully restoring decorum…)

 Second, we have Miz Kim [...]