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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Rum and Runestones w/stuart

David B Coe

Robin Hood

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

How Do I Write a Novel?

A guy the AKA (Gwen Hunter) knows, a lawyer who did some work for us back in the 1990s, asked me/us to read his book opening. Actually it was 16 pages of concept thrown onto the pages, single spaced, a lot for shock value. It read like a short story that needed a lot of [...]

New Writing Challenges

Hi, all.  I’m back, and wanted to take care of a couple of quick items before I get to today’s post.  First of all, thanks to all of you for the great comments on my posts while I was away on vacation.  I’ve read through all of them — y’all have some excellent dreams for [...]

Writing Fantasy: I can do better than that!

[Note: By this afternoon I'll be on a plane to the UK so I won't be able to respond to comments after noon Eastern. I'll do my best to jump back into the conversation later in the weekend.]

Stephen King has said that most readers have a moment early in life when they throw a book [...]

Planning -- I Was A Teenage Pantser

I was writing a different post for today, but this week’s discussion about advice to young writers got me thinking . . .

Jimi Hendrix.  Eric Clapton.  Eddie Van Halen.  Stevie Ray Vaughan.  All are famous rock guitar legends.  And though they may not have started out knowing, they eventually learned how to read and understand [...]

Characters: The Great Satan, Part 4

I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! MW!!! Sorry, y’all. No excuses.

This is the fourth week of the BBU here on Faith’s post day! Yes, the last one was in …May? June? And yes, I am overwhelmed. The hubby would then ask, “Why is no ever simply whelmed?” (gotta love him.) But Overwhelmed [...]

Rewrites: The Magical Solution

It all came down to one paragraph.

For the last 4 weeks, I’ve been on rewrites for my next book, Mercy Blade. It has been a rough, tough rewrite, because the plots (two of them) were equally important, interwoven, complex, and based on things that happened in 1912. And, the book needs to be intense enough [...]