So I have the basic layout of my story. … The problem is my characters won’t let me stick to my admittedly sketchy outline and keep taking me off on tangents. So my question is, do you ever let your characters run roughshod over your supposed plot and see where it leads you? Or do
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Writing Questions: Characters, Part 1
Most of us as would-be writers want to get out books into someone’s hands, but don’t always understand how to make the characters in our heads as likeable or engaging to someone who only has the black-magic-marks-on-white-paper to go by. Kate Daniels, for example, was raised to be an unfeeling killer and is often kind
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Writing Questions: NaNoWriMo Edition
Disclaimer: this is an article on the craft and business of writing. We are going to answer the questions raised within with honestly and bluntness. If you are here as a fan of our work, sometimes that can be jarring, so proceed at your own risk. In a recent blog post you asked for questions
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Emails enabled again & Ilona Andrews Murder by The Book Appearance
Hey everyone, Brandi here. First off, I wanted to announce that I will once again be receiving reader emails after that recent hiatus. Please, feel free to to email me directly regarding any questions or fan mail for Ilona Andrews. I will try my best to be of assistance! I’m super excited to hear from
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What’s Next?
You guys are insatiable. Ok, let’s see if I can do this correctly. We usually operate in twelve month chunks so, here we go. This is all tentative and subject to change. Things in italics are supertentative. 2018 Sep 10 Begin work on Hidden Legacy #4. Nov 6 Diamond Fire, Hidden Legacy 3.5, goes
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Signed Copies
Signed copies of Magic Triumphs are available at Booth 1300 at The Missing Volume. They do ship.
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First, I cannot believe you complained about Innkeeper this week. It’s a release week. We are on tour. Seriously? Second, Brandi represents us. The next person that decides to berate her will be banned. Comments will stay closed until further notice.
FAQ for Magic Triumphs
For those of you who are unable to attend the events, this is a place to ask questions. We will do an online event after the tour and answer questions. Please don’t answer each other’s questions. It makes it harder for us to sort through. If you like a particular question, please comment +1 on
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What Does It Take To Make It?
P. writes, I desperately want to be a writer. … I attended a book signing and I could picture myself doing it, like it could be me. I could do this. … What does it take to make it? Oy. It would be good if life had easy answers. If you could just say, “Work
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Revenge Is Best Served Tassled
Jeaniene Frost called me yesterday trying to cheer me up and told me this hilarious story about her elderly great-aunt and Fifty Shades of Gray. After you are done here, you should go over there and check it out. It will make your day. But don’t go yet. As I was perusing Jeaniene’s site, I
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Kismen, Dina, and RARE
The Kinsmen Universe Collector’s Edition (Preorder Now Available!) In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield…and sometimes in the bedroom. The Kinsmen
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Writing: POV
D. writes, I had a question about POVs. For your newest book you switched back and forth between Hugh and Elara, but you have general only stuck with one point of view for the Kate Daniels, Innkeeper and Hidden Legacy books/series. I was wondering the reasoning behind your choices to either switch between POVs or
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