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Prince Humperdinck Gets to Live (or why….)
Or, Why She Wrote Farryn’s War At the end of my third novel, there’s a fight in which the villain of the piece was originally plotted to die. Fortunately for him, I’d become so intrigued with the possibilities he presented that I couldn’t bear to follow through with it. I decided that he, like Prince…
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Turn on an #Audiobook with #AugustAudio
So we’re two weeks into August and two weeks into #AugustAudio. So far August is winning the most. It always kicks me around, but one thing I do to escape August is put on the headphones and slide into an audiobook. Listening to a book is a fun experience—and very different to reading a book.…
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Why She Wrote Repost
Since I mentioned The Spy Who Kissed Me in my Monday blog post on exploding out of body shapers, I thought it might be fun to do a re-post of my “Why I Wrote…” for this book. As I went through the process of updating this blog and adding book pages, I found myself thinking…
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What’s Your Genre?
If you hang around my blog, then you know that Wednesday is always about books. Why I wrote a book. Why an author wrote a book. Why an author writes. So okay, authors and books. But at its core, this day is about books and reading. Helping you (and me!) meet authors and find out…
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Why Margaret Taylor Wrote ALL IN THE NAME OF LOVE
I wrote this book originally because I’ve been head over heels with a certain movie star for years! That and I was always curious as to how far a character would go, in the name of love. I put to the two together and viola, I came out with a suspenseful tale of murder, mob…
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Why Michele Drier Wrote her Kandesky Vampires
Hmmm. I’d just contracted with a small publisher for my first mystery, Edited for Death. I was beginning a new career as a mystery writer and had three more books plotted out. When my daughter and her husband took me out to dinner to celebrate, my son-in-law said “Nobody reads mysteries (not true!), write a…
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Dear Me A Thousand Years Ago
Dear Me a thousand years ago (give or take a few seconds), When I first heard about the Write Path, I knew I wanted to write this blog post (and I give permission for it to be used in the eBook compilation) and I’m excited that this also my 400th blog post (see the party…
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I’m in the Mood for Love
I was always pretty romantic. I played with Barbie dolls and Barbie always married Ken, but I wasn’t romantic about the real boys in my life until puberty short circuited most rational thought. It’s the only way I can explain that delusional period affectionately referred to as the high school years. I can still remember…
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It Started with a Movie – or Why I Read/Love THIS ROUGH MAGIC
I was nine when Disney’s The Moonspinners released. I don’t remember reading the credits before, but I do remember noticing that it was based on a novel. That intrigued me and I headed for the library. I found the book, noted that the author had other books (SCORE!) and checked it out. I remember…