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.…
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…
Alternative to ARe Deal and More Great Deals for Readers
Looks like I had the bestseller for All Romance Ebook’s deals today. Unfortunately, they have announced they are closing at the end of the month. So I thought as an alternative offer, I would give a copy of The Snow Leopard’s Tale to anyone commenting here at the blog. You have to comment at the blog as opposed to social media posts where you see this shared, as I need your email address to send the book and the blog comment form will collect that for me. This is today only. The Snow Leopard’s Tale is the second book in my award-winning Pantherian Tales series. You can read an excerpt…
