syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
JJ Cooper has written two action thrillers – 17 years in Australian army – 2 tours in East Timor, 1 tour in middle east – was an army interrogator General tips: – write and edit until you are sick of reading your own writing – people read for escapism, but we also write for escapism […]
Panelists: Caroline Comito (writing as CJ Archer – self published and Montlake digital imprint) Shannon Curtis (Carina Press) Denise Rosetti (Berkley publications and Elora’s Cave) Elisabeth Rose (Avalon Books, Whiskey Creek Press (digital) Amazon’s Montlake digital imprint) Annie Seaton (Lyrical Press, Entangled, and self published) Kandy Shepherd (Berkley Sensation and self published) Paths to publication: […]
Eloisa James: Channeling Jane PhD, Professor in Shakespeare at Fordham University in New York Writes Regency romance, married to an Italian Knight (really!) 1. having motivation for writing is not enough, you need to work at it 2. what you write about has to come from your own life experiences, no matter what genre you […]
Well we had the official welcome, and then they announced the new first time published authors. There were 31 one of them this year which is awesome – one is my buddy Peta Crake who I met last year. Her debut novel Harbinger was announced as part of the Penguin Destiny Romance line on Thursday […]
I’ll put the rest of the Screenwriting Tips for Authors up another time. I was at the Harlequin cocktail party and then out at dinner with friends, and it is now late. Had a great day. Here is my timetable for tomorrow 8.30am – Welcome, First Sales and Little Gems Anthology Launch 8.50am – Keynote […]
Three act structure used in movies and books comes from plays has been used for more than 2,000 years also used in novels adapted for movies As authors, or playwrights or screenwriters, we need to follow this structure because readers – our audience – expects it. We deviate from it at our peril. Part of […]
The presenter of the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors Workshop, Alexandra Sokoloff, sent attendees an email last week asking us to prepare some homework prior to the workshop. The questions were as follows: 1. What genre are you writing in? Giving this is a romance convention, what subgenre are you writing in? 2. Make a list […]
Oh yeah the Penguin special event. This was a bit of a mystery, we weren’t sure what kind of event this was. Well, in a very interesting development, Penguin announced it’s new digital imprint, Destiny Romance. It is going to have a strong Australian author focus apparently – there are 5 Australian authors in the […]
Finished packing last night (this morning) at about 1am, and had to be up at 6 so didn’t get a lot of sleep. Left home at 6.30am to get to the airport in time for my check in and 9am flight. Thought that I would have room in my bags for all the books and […]
This is for a friend’s 40th birthday. The theme of the birthday party is actually the Roaring 40s, but as it is going to be a very civilised Sunday afternoon lunch I have gone with a vintage French design. I guess it is more Fin de siècle than Roaring 40s, but hopefully she will like it. […]
