V in Brody One of the really fun parts of being an indie author is cover design. Since I write full-length novels, I do not get to have this fun very often. I’ve done some covers myself but for my next release, Vain, I am having one designed by Rae Monet. While choosing pictures and colors… Continue Reading
This week on First Sight Saturday I welcome Nina Lane with Book One of her Spiral of Bliss series, Arouse. With a name like that it should come as no surprise that it is a contemporary erotic romance, but at 406 pages there is plenty of story there too. The cover here is a little… Continue Reading
AUTHOR’s EDIT OF POST I have been educated by a few very generous authors that what I had below were probably tag lines – not complete enough to be log lines. So, here are a few more appropriate log lines to consider while I go do more learnin’. I have numbered them so that I… Continue Reading
Today I welcome E. Ayers with her sweet contemporary romance, A Love Song in Wyoming. Wyoming is my favorite state in the U.S.A. and I love music so I am really happy to share this first meeting between her characters! The Setup: Johnny Rockthorne is one of the top country/western vocalists. He spends most of his… Continue Reading
As you can see on the left (at least until I remove the widget), I’ve let Rafflecopter choose the winner of the Name That Holiday Tune contest. I’ve emailed the winner to see at which bookseller she would like to have $20 to spend!My goal for the contest was to increase my followers in my… Continue Reading
Today on First Sight Saturday I welcome Meg Bellamy with her contemporary romantic comedy novella set in reality TV, TV Tycoons, which is a prequel to TV Bride. SET UP: The Leopard’s Lair is a reality TV show where new entrepreneurs present ideas and compete for successful, rich people to invest in their businesses. Jillann… Continue Reading
Today I welcome Nina Rowan who is sharing an excerpt of a first meeting from her historical romance A Study in Seduction in which an intelligent woman makes a simple request of a viscount who turns out to be a little too curious. SET-UP: Mathematician Lydia Kellaway is desperate to retrieve a locket that holds… Continue Reading
Drum roll please! Here is our zombie Santa. I’ve attached more pictures at the end of the blog with links to the blog post at that stage so you can see the progress as well as the finished product. In last week’s picture you see a zombie in a plain red outfit that looks like… Continue Reading
I’d like to welcome Jamie Lee Scott to First Sight Saturday. Jamie shares a first meeting scene from her book, Let Us Prey, one of her Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries. I say that any man who can make you forget you are at a murder scene is a keeper!THE SETUP: Mimi Capurro, owner of Gotcha Detective Agency,… Continue Reading
Welcome to my blog which is usually about romance and happily-ever-afters, but for Christmas 2012 has been partially hijacked by the creation of a zombie Santa. Last week, in The Zombie Santa Project- part one, I discussed why an apparently normal family would want a zombie Santa. So if you are struggling with the WHY… Continue Reading
