Happy Friday Darling Readers, I hope everyone is doing well. I've been running around being wife, mommy, and writer.  I got some material out to an agent who requested some chapters of a WIP (work in progress) of mine. I expect it'll be a while before I hear back. Agents are incredibly busy and they also have their real lives to think of, too. But I'm praying for a contract. I really like this agent and the agency the agent represents. I posted my review of C.C. Hunter's final installment of Della's story, Unspoken . I really enjoyed it. I think her fans will NOT be disappointed. Currently I'm looking forward to a bunch of things that aren't my projects: C.C. Hunter's Shadow Falls going to Internet screen show series. Jennifer L. Armentrout's Oblivion release and the Lux Series going to screen. (I think TV?) Kiera Cass's announcement about The Selection going to the big screen. Reading the last book in Lesley Livingst...

Happy Friday Everyone, I'm delighted to introduce November author interview to you, Lauren Oliver . I read her YA Dystopian novel,  Delirium , and it was very thought provoking, imaginative, interesting, and kept me on the edge of my seat. Me:   In Delirium love is viewed as a disease. What made you decide to write a dystopian YA dealing with that possibility? Lauren:  The idea for Delirium came from an essay I read by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in which he wrote that all great books were about love or death. The next day I was thinking about that quote--particularly about how and in what form a modern love story could be told--while I was on the treadmill at the gym. I was simultaneously watching a news story about a flu outbreak that had everyone freaking out about the possibility of a pandemic , and I was kind of marvelling that people so easily go into panics about reports of these diseases, and at some point the two trains of thought--love, an...

Happy Wednesday Everybody, Wow, it's Wednesday already? Time flies when you're having fun. Or dealing with surprises... That's me. Dealing with surprises. In writing, that is. Some of my writing (and a current project) has taken me in a direction I didn't see myself going. But there are times writing will do that. And for now, it's helping me create and figure out what I'm doing with this project and the others I have going. Some authors start out writing one thing and branch out to two or three other areas. Like the Adult-novel writer who ends up writing YA or Mid-Grade...or all 3--adult, YA and Mid-grade. Or the person who starts out in Romance and finds themselves with a Thriller on their hands. Perhaps you began your writing with Contemporary and got lost in the fields of Fantasy. Maybe while you were shaking hands with a vampire then a cyborg jumped into your living room. Writing isn't always predictable, which if it was, would probably bor...

Happy Friday All, Sorry about not posting on Thursday. I was exhausted Wednesday evening, so I decided to just go to bed--then I was busy today, so I took the day off. I thought I'd cover age genre types and what they mean. Some people have asked me about genres. One question I got was, "What's YA?" So, I'll start with the youngest age group and work my way up (as a Romance author I'm going to talk a lot about that when I get to the adult section): Children's Books:   These are anything from infant to 7 years old. (Some bookstores will have a section that says:  "3-5 Year Olds") Typically you'll find board books and easy-to-reads. There's a lot of Disney books available in this section. Titles like Brown Bear What Do You See? Caps For Sale, Splat The Cat, Berenstin Bears, Thomas The Tank Engine, I've found a lot of Dr. Seuss books in this section as well. Mid-Grade :  Most of these books are geared toward kids between children a...

Happy Tuesday All, Raise your hands if you like Greek and/or Roman Mythology! *raises hand and waves it* I first was exposed to Greek and Roman Mythology when I was in Middle School. I was homeschooled at the time by my parents (5th through 8th grades). We listened to a dramatization on tape (yeah, this was back before CD players were the norm) of the Odyessy , Agamemnon and of Socrates death. I read about the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses (essentially the Greeks and Romans had the same sorts, just different names and the Roman ones tend to be fiercer, which is actually saying something considering how tempramental the Greek ones could be).  My favorite myth is Cupid & Psyche (yes, I have a romantic heart). I've read a couple of re-tellings of this story:  Cupid by Julius Lester (pretty close to the original myth, mostly from Cupid's point of view) Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors (offers a different pespective and told from a third party's point of v...