Good news first: The Sweep of the Heart adaptation from Graphic Audio will be released on Audible& other audio stores on February 2nd, a bit earlier than expected. Me, in a post about the found dog: Jeaniene, if you are reading this, no, we did not keep the puppy. Stop laughing. Yesterday: phone rings. Me:
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Writer Life: Things That Help
Yesterday Kid 2 called me, visibly exhausted. She is finishing up her second manuscript. We trunked the first one because while it was good, you can only debut once, and this new one is much more her. I’d sent her Maggie and she really loved the way it’s formatted. In case you’re wondering, this is
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Rambling Monday: Maps, Names, and Weed Eaters
The edit of Maggie has landed in my Inbox, which means today will be all editing, all the time. What you see above is a work in progress on the map of the city. Becka is ridiculously talented and she has put up with all my insane edits. We are trying to figure out a
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What’s In The Folder?
Today’s question comes from Mod R. How do you not end up with this when you’re working on a project? Hehehe, FinalFinalDraftDamnIt.docx. Mod R has, by now, seen us drastically chop the manuscripts. I’ve been torturing her with Maggie drafts, and she has read 2 or 3 so far, so now I’m holding off until
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Stab, stab, stab
The good news: We fixed the issue that was giving us trouble with the current draft. The bad news: We fixed the issue that was giving us trouble with the current draft. The blog is getting about 25% of my brain power, because the rest is going into plotting scenes and conversations. This is probably
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Gloomy Friday
It is gloomy here in Texas. It doesn’t quite rise to the levels of blustery, but it is definitely grey, overcast, and slightly chilly. Mod R is out today for a medical procedure, so you have to put up with me prattling on about random business and life nonsense. First, I have some great news.
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What Do You Want?
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been getting random comments on different blog threads about what we might be writing next and what you want to read next. So we’re going to take the lid off this pressure cooker. Please feel free to tell us what you would like to read next from us in
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Sorting Things Out
The last couple of weeks have been both hectic and difficult. Finishing RUBY FEVER took priority, and even though we hit the word count goal, it will probably require additional scenes. Before you ask, the typical length of an adult romance is somewhere between 90-95K. It’s not a hard rule – some romances are longer,
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Audio Narrators
How are the audio narrators chosen? It’s a long and involved process. In self-publishing the writer chooses the narrator themselves. In the traditional publishing, the narrator is typically chosen by the publisher. It used to be that the choice was presented to the writer as a fact, but now the audio publishers even in traditional
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Was it Pretty?
This is your pick me up, in case you are struggling with writing or something else today. Number of times Gordon and I looked at the manuscript: 6. Number of professional editors who also looked at it: 4. Number of beta readers who looked at it: 6. Around them the forest breathed. Swarms of purple
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Bitter Disappointment
I’ve listened to the entire audiobook of Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It was a good book. It had a lot of science. I did not like the way it ended! Yeah, yeah, I get the set up for it and bitter sweet and all that, but I did not like it. I didn’t want
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Music, Covers, and Fainting Fans
State of House Andrews: the copyedits for the Fated Blades novella are finished. It came in at 45,000 words so double the typical novella length. I will post more once we have the cover. Blog prompts, here we go. Do you have a favourite meeting with a reader or reader interaction? Something that marked you
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