Every story has Main Characters, Secondary Characters and then those Other Characters, who have names and enough bits and pieces to make them interesting but aren’t as three-dimensional as a Main or Secondary. They aren’t meant to be. They exist, from a writer’s perspective, to make your world interesting and sometimes give the Main and […]
Part 3! You can read Part One Here, and then Part Two Here! D Life was the same as ever here at Fang Central. Well, maybe not so much… The power outage was new. Not that us vamps had too much trouble seeing our way around, but there was a ton of blood gonna go […]
Book three is live!
Here is the next part of my “micro series.” Read Part One Here! Dakota It was my great, damned luck that I would be in the only room in the whole freakin’ town that had locks run on electricity. In fact, the locks were a combination of an old-fashioned key and electricity. Because it was […]
This is what happens when you let your characters run wild… Sadie: Mia is letting us have control of a blog post for today. We get to talk about whatever we want. Dakota: She’s a bigger idiot than I thought. Madison: Dakota, play nice. Just because you’re in a bad mood doesn’t mean you have […]
Writing preternatural characters is FUN. Really, it’s as simple as that. Writing for someone that is paranormal in some way is like opening up a gigantic writer’s playground of character traits and things you can do with them, both in their character arcs and in story arcs, and even in world building. The possibilities really […]
Welcome to my four-part “micro series.” This is set in the Blood Rights town of Adelheid, roughly after book three–but there shouldn’t be any major spoilers that aren’t already in book descriptions! Watch for part two! Sadie There was a strong summer storm sweeping over southern Connecticut, and every weatherman in our area was freaking […]
When all is said and done, it’s your book. You are the last word on how your book turns out when the whole process is finished, which includes the editing. This editor recommends going over your book and checking all the edits made once you get it back, to decide which ones to keep and […]
BLOOD ISN’T ALWAYS BLOOD… The name is Dakota. No last name. Just that. I’m a bounty hunter, only I hunt all the things that go bump in the night. The things that others are too afraid to hunt. I live alone. I work alone. That’s how I like it. Other people just mess things up. […]
Today, I’m happy to welcome a long-time friend and author–BR Kingsolver–to join me in the first author interview on this blog. Hopefully one of many to come, but we’re off to a great start. 🙂 BR Kingsolver Website ~*~ Facebook ~*~ Twitter ~*~ Buy the Book! ~*~ What’s one random fact that you’d like to […]