I rented the movie on iTunes and loved it! The mega success of this series has been a fascinating thing to watch. I'd love to know exactly what the tipping point was that launched it into the stratosphere.
Great post! Negative reviews are tough and many people aren't very constructive in their criticism. But I will say that as a reader I've never let a bad review prevent me from reading a book I really want to read. If anything it makes me…
I'm so sorry I missed this. As a reader, I read books by authors of every race. I've always felt that readers will read books that appeal to them no matter the race of the author or characters IF they know about them. And that's the…
Hi, guys! My book will be out later this month. I formed my own company to publish it using Lightning Source. Yes, it's a lot of work. But I feel it will be worth it. And I love being in control. I've been traditionally published and felt…
Hello. I'm new to this group and have a book that I'm independently publishing that got dropped by my publisher last year. I also work in a college library and think libraries are wonderful avenues for sales and promotion for authors.…
Kathleen, your experience sounds a lot like Joshlyn Jackson's. She not only got a huge advance for her first novel but she's gone on to become a bestseller with her publisher's considerable weight behind her. Milk that prize for all…
Oh dang, I've been given so many rejections, I'd have a book if they were all bound. It took changing my genre to finally get accepted. You have to keep trying. Even Stephen King got a slew of rejections and even threw Carrie in the trash…
I have started sending out my fiction, again. I had stopped, having focussed on my other projects. Unfortunately I am receiving the usual rejections, despite having been beter prepared before writing the query and sending to agents. I already…
I have to say, as a first time novelist, I found the querying more fun than I thought I would. It feels like a relief to get it out and have someone besides me reading it! I also got lucky -- I had a lot of help with my query letter, so had a good…
Ah, this topic is my life. I just sent back a contract to my new literary agent, and my book will be out on submission to publishers in August. Fingers crossed.
Last year, right about this time, I had landed another agent for another novel. The…
Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
Schooled In Lies-Boulevard West Press
The Company You Keep-Harlequin/Kimani
Tangled Roots- Harlequin/Kimani
Diva's Last Curtain Call-Harlequin/Kimani
Schooled In Lies-Boulevard West Press
Trick Dice/Proverbs for the People Anthology-Kensington
Angela, thanks again for your comments! I appreciate the feedback. Congrats on the success with Kimani, by the way (fellow HQ writer)! I look forward to seeing more from you in the future. We should do a Q&A for my blog! I'l email you. ;)
My father's death opened the closet of horrible memories and I began to write "ugly" as I called it then. I began to reach for some honesty in my writing as I went through three years of frequent flashbacks--not of HIM, but of another…
While I agree that we can get carried away and even use prompts and exercises as effective avoidance techniques to tell ourselves, well, we ARE writing something, I found two books and a couple of classes to be enormously helpful in getting me going…
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How John Cusack and his boom box ruined Valentine's Day:
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