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    A Virtual Reality Romance is Romance of the Day at Kindle Nation Daily!

    Award-Winning Pantherian Tales series (graphic from BookBuzzPromotion for Pantherian Tales) The Grizzly’s Tale is Romance of the Day over at KindleNationDaily.com The response to The Grizzly’s Tale has been wonderful and I want to thank the readers willing to embrace something a little different. The day after release this was the ranking at Amazon: Thank you readers and reviewers for getting The Grizzly’s Tale up there in the ranks. Check it out, almost in the top 100 for genetic engineering. Tell all your friends and be sure to get a copy yourself. Let’s grow the market for virtual reality fiction. And this review was shared from theKindle Nation Daily site:…

  • four stages of novel-writing,  Nara Malone,  Romance Writing,  The Grizzly's Tale

    Four Stages of Romance Novel Writing

    First Draft  This is the baseline sketch. It all feels black and white, prose is wooden, characters flat. Second Draft The elements begin to merge. Ideas flow. The story starts to breathe. This is the place where you first start to weave a connection between the story world and the words. Third Draft Now we’re cooking! The characters have a voice and life on the pages. You disappear into the story while you write. Maybe at this stage it is good enough, but why stop there when you could go one level deeper? Fourth Draft You tweak for drama and page-turning emotion until the story consumes you. Then it’s ready.…

  • All Romance Ebooks,  ARe Closing,  responding to greed with generosity

    List of Authors Repaying Greed with Generosity

    I posted here this morning about All Romance closing, which is a hardship to authors and readers. I said I wanted to respond to the greed behind those losses with generosity and put up The Snow Leopard’s Tale for free. I’ve since made that book easier to collect by posting it at Instafreebie Since that time several other authors have joined me in repaying greed with generosity. I’ll include a Linky at the bottom of this post so they can add links to posts about their gifts. Keep checking back. The giveaways are running until the end of the month and anyone who wants to cancel greed with generosity is…