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tegically placed hairballs because cats are evil and have no respect for the creative process but that s another blog post for another day i don t know a single author who doesn t sweat launch day we re all convinced that this is the book that flops the book that destroys our reputation and future sales i know it sounds crazy but that s a concern with creative types well the ones who are insecure like me that is you can all breathe a sigh of relief this launch went well which probably means it s the next one that will screw up my career i m not kidding i ve written 20 books and i still worry clearly i m neurotic and i did get some belgian chocolates from a friend who stopped by and also a burger from wendy s which was much appreciated thank you susan if you know an author who s launch is forthcoming please be kind and maybe get her some bon bons and a double cheeseburger i can guarantee that she ll thank you for it leslie langtry by unknown may 02 2018 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 23 2018 retreating to advance by cathy perkins the weekend marked the 10 th anniversary of our writing retreat wow ten years ten years ago rachel grant rebecca clark courtney milan darcy burke and i were golden heart finalists and staged our first retreat we invited elisabeth naughton to join us several years ago and kris kennedy couldn t come this year we re all multi published authors now but we re also friends we ve seen each other s children grow up celebrated successes and consoled losses the primary focus of the weekend is writing usually silence reigns except for the clicking of elisabeth s keys but there are lighter moments too we reviewed the 432 pictures from darcy s photo shoot and picked favorites for book cover potential of course we had to stage our own shoot this is our thoughtful pose yeah not one of the most helpful things for me was the business discussion we talked about goals for the upcoming year and mouths gaped as darcy described her publication schedule i treat it like a job because that s what it is she explained in order to meet her schedule she sets and meets daily word counts her comment echoed steven king i listened to on writing during the drive to portland we change the location every year but the house is always in the pacific northwest king said he goes to his writing space every morning and doesn t come out until he has at least 1500 words on the page some days he s done by noon others he s there until dinner time that s my takeaway from this year s retreat consistency discipline sure i wrote nearly 15 000 words this weekend some of them will turn out to be lousy but the first draft of my latest novel is nearly complete and editing will deal with the clunky sections but every day since i ve been home instead of checking email social media and the news when i get up i write i m roughly two scenes away from reaching the end and then the editing will begin and the plotting of the next book thanks darcy and steven what about you writing retreats daily habits what gets that enormous challenge you re facing done in other news i m pretty excited about the cover for the next novel in the holly price series in it for the money releases later this spring and if i can keep the discipline going there will be new adventures for holly and her half sister keri hah you didn t know about her did you an award winning author of financial mysteries cathy perkins writes twisting dark suspense and light amateur sleuth stories when not writing she battles with the beavers over the pond height or heads out on another travel adventure she lives in washington with her husband children several dogs and the resident deer herd visit her at http cperkinswrites com she s hard at work on the next book in the holly price series and a new series set in the cascade mountains by cathyp april 23 2018 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cathy perkins holly price mystery series writing discipline writing life writing retreat wednesday april 18 2018 a day in charleston i had the chance to visit charleston sc recently for those who have never been there it s a colorful port city with a tiny taste of new orleans about it it was a quick trip because i was on a tight deadline to complete beneath but sometimes looming deadlines crush the inner muse the pressure to write has a reverse effect and you find yourself penning such useful lines as she ate a piece of cake my day away started with a little seafood at fleet landing just traveling a few hours south and i was blessed with 80 degree weather on a winter day the architecture was beautiful the ambiance relaxing it was a shame that the book i was working on was a young adult adventure under the ocean none of what i was seeing in charleston could make its way into the book well except for the seafood so this refreshed writer went home and ended up being early on her deadline how about you whether you re under a deadline for a book or a deadline in everyday tasks do you find stepping back for a few moments clears the brain here is the end result of my little vacation beneath from usa today bestselling author maureen a miller comes this young adult adventure that will plunge you deep into the atlantic ocean it was stella gullaksen s final break before starting her freshman year at college joining her best friend jill and jill s family aboard the starkissed stella wakes to a violent storm that capsizes the boat over a hundred miles off the new jersey shore as the waves haul her under stella knows that she is going to die instead an unusual current drags her deep into the underwater canyons of the atlantic ocean powerless against the raging waters she is suddenly sucked into a ventilated cave one by one jill and her family also emerge in the sunken cavern with only a faulty diving flashlight to keep oblivion at bay stella and her best friend s brother colin search the cave in hope of finding a way back to the surface what they discover however is that they are not alone there are other survivors in this subterranean grotto survivors spanning decades of maritime disasters will this discovery prove salvation or have they all been condemned to the same fate a grim finale at the bottom of the sea on an alliance forged by friendship and attraction stella and colin battle to escape the danger that lies beneath amazon by maureen a miller april 18 2018 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels maureen a miller monday april 16 2018 inaccuracies and other heresies by janis patterson i m gobsmacked and close to heartbroken things are all upside down and i don t like it the other night the husband and i were watching a show on pbs an historical drama that during this episode was stated as taking place in 1905 the story was interesting enough the production was lush with excellent values except the leading woman s clothing was not from 1905 one outfit especially noticeable because it was considered almost scandalously avante garde in 1915 how do i know because i m working on a book set in 1916 and have written one set in 1919 and i am a dedicated and close to fanatical researcher of course i made a comment the husband grunted a few minutes later the main characters still in 1905 were hurtling down the road in a 1916 touring car didn t look anything like a car made in 1905 i made a disparaging and angry remark and then the world went upside down it s just a story it s not important i couldn t believe he said that i mean this man is a scientist a decorated and thankfully retired navy officer and a respected historian of both wwii and the war between the states accuracy is his middle name i ve seen him lose his temper when a tv show makes a mistake on a gun s caliber or year of origin and when some stupid tv show had a character putting a silencer on a revolver let s just say his reaction was memorable and loud it s just a story words to chill the heart of a good storyteller maybe it s just a story but as creators of those stories don t we owe our readers the best we can do although i hate to admit it a lot of people get great amounts of their information from stories whether read or seen if the information presented there is inaccurate a lot of people are going to be believing inaccurate things and if they are caught out in being wrong who do you think is going to be blamed not them even though they failed to check factual sources or do due diligence no they ll blame the writer because things in books or on tv just have to be correct don t they such egregious disregard of fact has all kinds of consequences not the least of which is that for those who do know the truth you the writer come out looking like either an uneducated lout or a lazy idiot who can t be bothered to check his facts either way it doesn t reflect well on you but wait there s more i think it all boils down to respect the respect the writer must have for the reader which should insure that every fact in our stories is as true as we can make it i realize that there are some fine points that we have to extrapolate or even guess but when there is information available we should make the effort to find it there is also the respect writer and reader should have for the truth if you write fantasy feel free to make up your own worlds and your own facts but once you have know you have to stick with them that s not what i m talking about though if you write stories set in the real world whether current or historical this world deserves the courtesy of being presented as is no one benefits from a 1916 car driving through a 1905 landscape or a revolver being subdued by a silencer there s one more thing however obscure the fact there s someone out there who will know the truth and boy will they enjoy calling you down on it by susan april 16 2018 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels accuracy facts research respect responsibility revolver silencer television truth friday april 13 2018 murder comes to elsyium and it s about time it s a common analogy to compare writing a book to giving birth as both are long and arduous endeavors for reasons i ll never understand writing murder come to elysium was difficult the equivalent of a marathon labor though not quite as painful as the polish woman who was in labor for 75 days yes i looked it up but now that the book is done i m happy with the final product which is what any author strives for and as the new mother forgets the pain of childbirth when she holds her infant in her arms the difficulties of the past years fade when i look at my lovely cover so i m delighted and relieved to finally send murder comes to elysium out into the big bright world find at amazon ku pi addie gorsky is still struggling with her father s death when a friend asks her to look into the sudden death of his niece elena the young woman died minutes after being discharged from tender mercies psychiatric one of the darker places in the sunshine state addie agrees to this small favor despite elena s death from anaphylactic shock appearing like nothing more than a tragic accident soon addie uncovers small discrepancies in elena s untimely death even more troubling is elena herself who was not the inexperienced college student described by her uncle but a woman with a dark secret when a second person dies at the mercies addie discovers a connection between the two deaths a connection leading back to one of the most heinous crimes in florida s history and the horrific poisoning of seven small children suddenly addie finds herself in a deadly chess match with an unseen opponent a grand master of murder always one step ahead somehow she must find a way to defeat this ruthless killer before another life is lost by daryl anderson april 13 2018 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels addie gorsky female detective florida crime fiction mystery pi tuesday april 10 2018 what keeps you turning the pages as an author i often contemplate what makes me want to read further in a book what draws me into the story i came up with three basic ideas although there are many more create questions the best way to get lost in a book from the first page is to have a situation that produces questions this usually happens in mysteries where a murder is discovered at the start and the reader doesn t know who did the deed thrillers often take this a step further with the murder either happening on the page and or the likelihood of more killings occurring in short order if the killer isn t stopped in my latest release to die again the novel opens with a purposeful accident in a bio lab which leaves people dead but from a chemical gas impossible to produce in that lab immediately questions are raised why would a killer use something not common to a bio lab to murder the occupants why make the murder obvious since there was more than one person in the lab which one was the target one scientist was anxious about the difference in her written lab notes versus the ones entered in the computer why would that be and why was the usual lab technician absent that day instead of the one who usually worked with the scientist set the clock ticking the questions can t stop and neither can the pace of the book while a mystery might leave the identity of the villain unknown and have the hero collect clues to expose them a thriller can unmask a villain early and show how they set out to defeat the hero or heroine the bad guys are often the ones who set the clock ticking by hinting to their true dastardly plans or being two steps ahead or even scarier behind the good guys in to die again after the lab accident the villain discovers the heroine has a secret that could change his future and to gain it she must die by his hand in the meantime the heroine figures out why the villain set up the lab accident but has to prove it to authorities another example of setting a clock ticking can be found in julie moffett s no room for error the villain caused lexi carmichael s plane to crash in a remote island jungle she and her cohorts survive only to discover the bad guys are on their tails and want something lexi must keep safe the clock is ticking and they must move to survive all while trying to figure out who the villain is and what he really wants add complications complications arise through characterization and through the story s plot but the bottom line is don t make it easy for your good or your bad guys the villain should equally match or even be stronger than the hero but don t make it even that easy give the villain lots of advantages and the hero a few disadvantages an easy advantage is to put the hero in the villain s territory the villain knows his house business island ship better than the hero and of course will have it tricked up with booby ...