Image by こうこう きちでん from Pixabay A while ago I did a blog post answering the question about writing diverse characters. Among the points that were brought up were creative description of skin color and how people find it unpleasant to be compared to food and the fact that we now add a descriptor to our characters, pointing out when someone is …
Sapphire Flames Hits the Lists
# 6 on USA Today. This is the big one - it means we had #6 bestselling book in US out of all the books for that week. #5 on NYT. #2 on Wall Street Journal. Our editor and the rest of the team at Avon sent us beautiful flowers. Thank you, guys. This was a lovely release. I meant to post all the lists last week but I was just …
Smart Characters and Diverse Characters
Are you ever intimidated to write a character? How do you write a character who is smarter than you? Coffeeshopkitty CAN an author write a character that is smarter than they are? Booklover Absolutely. George is smarter than us. So is Catalina. Geokinetic mages had power over earth, but their magic differed from the other …
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The Struggle is Real
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On Writers, Self Validation of
Tobias Buckell posted an interesting post on Twitter. https://twitter.com/tobiasbuckell/status/1158803445085868032 The whole thread is great, and the take away is that many writers have kept their day job, while greatly contributing to literature. There is no shame in it. Watch this interview starting at about 3:00 minute mark. The …
Back in the Saddle
Bad things come in threes. Two of the three things are now rolling to conclusion: I've had my endoscopy and it went better than I expected, although we are still waiting on the biopsy results. Glad that's over. And the infected eye of Charlie the French Bulldog has ruptured after 3 months of us treating it with antibiotics and drops and was …