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Why I wrote Family Treed and Louisiana Lagniappe
I was searching through all my posts and realized that I didn’t write a “why I wrote” for Family Treed, my short story in my Big Uneasy series. I might not have done it because it was a short story. I honestly don’t remember. So I think I’ll cover both “Family Treed” and Louisiana Lagniappe…
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#LookingBack at Why I Wrote STEAMROLLED
So I’ve been pretty slammed this summer and have not had time to corral authors into showing up here (other than the lovely Veronica Scott!). So I’m continuing my look back at some of my “why I wrote” posts. And because I just released a new book in my Project Enterprise series, I thought some…
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Why I Wrote The Real Dragon
I don’t have a guest author this week and it feels kind of odd. I hope, dear readers, that you enjoy these peeks behind the writing curtain as much as I do. As you may or may not know, Pets in Space went off sale May 1st forever and ever. The rights for the stories…
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Why I Wrote: Where It All Began
On Oct 30, 2013, I posted my first “Why I Wrote” blog post on this site. You’ll note that this isn’t any time in October. So why am I mentioning it now? Because I’ve been at the RT Book Lover’s Convention (and doing the #GrandmaProject), so I’ve been re-blogging this month. And since this IS…
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Why I Wrote DEAD SPACES
We write books for lots of reasons. Usually, there isn’t one “this is why I wrote this book.” Which is why I have, and like, this feature. I’m curious why authors write the books they write. And believe it or not, I’m curious why I wrote a particular book. (You’d think I’d know, wouldn’t you?)…
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The Bad Guy Was Still Out There – Why I Wrote Steamrolled
I recently got an awesome fan letter for Steamrolled. He wrote that it had the “most unique and original views on time travel” he’d come across in his fifty years of reading. That email pretty much made my day, cuz writing that book almost made my head explode. Seriously. I knew it was pretty crazy…
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Why I Wrote TANGLED IN TIME
When I started writing Tangled in Time, it was not meant to be so, well, tangled. It was supposed to be a simple mystery story for an anthology with a Texas Landmarks theme. After… possibly six false starts, I almost gave up. Then I started wondering if I could write a short story using one…
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Why I Wrote DO WAH DIDDY DIE
A long time ago, in another century (no, really, it was another century), an author (me) finished a book (THE SPY WHO KISSED ME – though she called it PIG IN A PARK back then) and got an agent who wanted her to write something easier to sell to Big Publishing. She asked me to…
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Why Marie-Nicole Ryan Wrote Mastering the Marshal
Truly? You really want to know why I wrote Mastering the Marshal, a historical western romance? Okay, then I’ll tell you. I needed a third book to end my Loving the Lawman series, and that’s what I wrote. But why did I write a historical western series in the first place might be a better…
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My Bad Guy Wanted to be the Good Guy – Or Why I Wrote GIRL GONE NOVA
So I finished The Key, aka The Big A** Book, with no plans to write more science fiction romance (you might recall that I didn’t know I’d written SFR at that point. I thought I’d written a) an action adventure that just happened to be set in space; b) a really, really long novel…