One of the commenters on my recent interview post at Coffee Time Romance asked how I chose my character names, and so I thought that would be a good subject to talk about here. Naming your character correctly is one of the most important choices a writer makes in her novel. It might not be…
Coffee Time Romance is a long-established review site. They contacted me some time ago to say they were establishing a whole new section for the steampunk genre, and would I like to be one of their featured authors to help them launch the site? Needless to say, I told them I would love to be…
The other night I went to a panel discussion called “The Future of Publishing,” hosted by the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. It was moderated by Guy Kawasaki, author of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, and the panelists were Barry Eisler, author; Clark Kepler, CEO/bookseller; Dane Neller, CEO, On Demand Books (the company that makes the…
I have my laptop, charged and ready to go. I have the month of November, decks cleared and waiting. I have my account at nanowrimo.org and a cluster of oddly shaped word associations scribbled in my notebook that I’m calling an outline. Can you hear the engines revving? That’s me, getting ready to write the…
It’s been a while since I posted, mostly due to technical difficulties. I’ve grown so dependent on technology to communicate that when it doesn’t work, I’m hobbled! We’ve been busy in the last couple of days: a walking tour of Royal London, and an afternoon of beach combing on the Thames at low tide, much…