I recently started a brand new book in a brand new series. Actually, I’m lying. It’s really not a “new” series, because there’s already a book out…and I’d better back up and explain, huh? In August last year, I put out a short, stand-alone SFR (science fiction romance) story, called 5,001. It was an actual
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History is a really cool place to wander. You learn all sorts of interesting facts and you can make connections between previously unrelated events, people and places. So what has me excited now? The French Foreign Legion. In a lot of Victorian romances, the disgraced hero or the bad boy would escape their soiled reputation
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I’m having a real issue with names at the moment. Let me explain. Depending on how you count them, with the release of Kiss Across Kingdoms last week, I now have either 59 books published, or 94 books published. Why the two numbers? I’ve been publishing books since 1999. Up until 2011, I was publishing
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A few days ago in the newsletter, I gave readers a quick breakdown, a 101 (actually, more like a 0.0001) lesson on how to pronounce Welsh words and names. Then I found out that I have some readers actually living in Wales! So cool! All of them were very kind and didn’t point out any
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Following up on my speed-kills post the other day (“Unbearable“), when I explained how I shot myself in the foot, and didn’t have a book page to point to, even though I had finished the book…. Well, now I have the book page and the cover. As predicted, Dar Albert has done a wonderful job
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I’ve received a couple of emails lately from readers who are tripping over the numbering system in my series. I admit that if you’ve never seen that sort of series numbering before — I call it digital numbering — it can look a little strange, but there are very good reasons for numbering the series
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Unbearable. The word has a certain heart-sinking sound to it, doesn’t it? Why do I mention it? After all, I write romances, which always have a positive, upbeat ending. So let me explain. I think everyone here is pretty familiar with the fact that I can write fairly fast. I know a lot of people
I just realized that “SFR” (science fiction romance) could also stand for Self-empowered Female Readers. Very cool. Last week, the producers of the newest Star Wars movie, Rogue One, released the first official trailer. I saw it, loved it and can’t wait for the movie to come out (December!). Within hours of the trailer release,
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All Of Time And The Whole World, Too When you’re writing time travel novels, deciding where and when in history your main characters are going to travel back to can be an overwhelming decision. After all, the author can pick any time in history — that’s about twelve thousands years of human history, right there.
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If you read on a Kindle or Kindle App and buy all your books at the Zon, then here’s an author hack you might not have discovered yet. If an author has a formal author page on Amazon (not always a given, as authors have to set this up themselves), then on every author page,
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