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Guest Blogger Mima PDF Print Write e-mail
Written by Kat Duncan   
Wednesday, 05 October 2011 08:54

Please welcome our guest blogger, Mima! Mima is blogging today about mistakes. It's a powerful lesson for all of us. Let's listen and learn:

Mima's Trilogy

Your Biggest Mistake

Newsweek has a regular editorial where people reflect and share about their biggest mistakes. This serial interests me because I am the author of interactive fiction. I make it my business to think about choices, consequences, and the psychology of feeling empowered vs. trapped. Why are some people challenged by difficulty while others crumple?

Life isn’t a choose your own adventure, with replays and takebacks. But I love reflecting on what could have been. I guess it’s my writer’s imagination. I use several categories of choices when I design my branching-path stories: the major, the minor, and the dire. Today I’m focusing on the major choices that have come up in your life.

Share a major choice you made, with a thought about what could have been. Share regrets or confirmations as you choose. Commenters are entered for a free Take Control book of their choice.

After I graduated, I interviewed for jobs as a school librarian at several schools. School A called me and I was delirious with relief. It was a forty-five minute commute, a small, rural high school with an outdated program that would need a total overhaul and virtually no fiction section, which I found telling and appalling. A week later, School B called me. They were a fifteen minute drive, a large suburban district with many resources, including a higher salary. I stammered on the phone. I WANTED THAT JOB. But I had already told School A I would go with them. I had not signed a contract. I asked School B for time.

I called my mother and cried. I called my fiance and cried. Both of them advised me to take School B. There would be no personal or professional issue with it, they assured me. But I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t. This other school had decided on me fast, and I had the distinct impression I was not School B’s first choice. I stayed with School A.

I had to get up at 5AM for four years. I was twenty-one and many of my students were only a few years younger. I was learning a career with a hostile clerk, no budget, and a tepid administration. I cried in the magazine closet often. Every day I went to a job with the deep belief I was not effective and had NO idea how to become so. When my fiance found a job five hours away, I was giddy at the prospect of leaving after only four years.

In hindsight, I can blame the district for not giving me any teacher-training, not the slightest bit of support that a classroom teacher received in management, curriculum, active lessons, record keeping, none of it. In hindsight I can realize that putting a twenty-one year old in charge of eighty young adults is a rough road.

With my imagination, I wonder what working at that larger school with a robust library program would have been like. What kind of support I would have had, what kind of leadership would have shaped me, how the student body was of a different economic class. All the dawns and deer accidents and dangerous blizzard driving I would have missed…

And I would have missed the defining moment of my career as a teacher, when I was on the verge of burning out two years into the job, exhausted and beaten down with failure. An eighteen-year-old hair stylist young mother looked at me out of the corner of her eyes and said, “Before you, I didn’t know people wrote books about people like me.”

“What?” I said eloquantly.

“That book you left on the table. When we were all sitting around saying no book ever told the truth about us. You didn’t say anything. You took it off the shelf without even looking and put it on the table. And I read it. I mean, the whole thing. I could see it in my head. Do you have more books like that?”

I gave her some. Then I went to the closet and cried. She never finished any of those other books. Later, she told me she didn’t think she’d ever get through another whole book, not with the life she had. But she had read one. And it made her think. Because of me.

Wow, Mima! That's amazing. That one book made her think, probably made her dream. And with luck, she passed some of that thinking and dreaming on to the people around her and perhaps her children. Well done!

Mima's Bio:

Mima lives in the Finger Lakes of NY. She is the author of 19 fantasy romances which can all be seen at mimawithin.com. The Take Control series features interactive, choice-based fiction stories in the scifi, contemporary western, and paranormal genres.

Blog readers, please comment and share your choices, regrets, could-have-beens. Comment for a chance to win one of Mima's Take Control series books. A random winner will be announced on Thursday, October 13. 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:10
 
Kindlegraph is here! PDF Print Write e-mail
Written by Kat Duncan   
Saturday, 27 August 2011 11:40

KindlegraphYou can now get my autograph for your Kindle books! Check out

http://kindlegraph.com/authors/Write_About

to request a personalized message that is sent directly to your Kindle. All you have to do is sign in with your Twitter account. It's fun, fast and best of all: free!

 
Interview with Harper Bennett PDF Print Write e-mail
Written by Kat Duncan   
Wednesday, 03 August 2011 08:57

Please welcome today, author Harper Bennett!

Author Harper Bennett

Harper Bennett has her own happily ever after going on in the wilds of Alaska with her husband and three darling minions (also known as “children”). Earning her MFA in creative writing in 2002 taught her nothing more than student loans were inherently evil and that her passion would never lie in the tomes of literary fiction. Her stories will always require a “happily ever after” with plenty of sweaty lust thrown in for good measure.

KD: Congratulations on the recent release of your book, The Centurion's Prize, available July 17, 2011 from Beachwalk Press. Tell us a little bit about The Centurion's Prize.

HB: Thank you so much for having me today, Kat!  Here’s a blurb:

To save their way of life, enemies must become allies.

In the final days of the Roman Empire, the Celtic princess Nara, daughter of a tribal king, has discovered a secret that will shatter the lives of the people and tribes she holds most dear. Once a sworn enemy of the Centurion Corvinus Aelius Martialis, she must now look to him for help. The Roman’s very presence ignites a powerful and consuming passion within her, one that Nara knows is dangerous and could cost them both their lives…but is she strong enough to resist the Centurion’s all-consuming kiss?

Never one to trust a Celt, let alone a woman, Corvin is taken aback by the bold princess’s bargain. He knows her father is the puppeteer of a very dangerous game involving a rogue band of Rome’s sworn enemies, and he can’t be certain—did the apple fall far from the ambitious, traitorous tree? Or will he claim the fiery princess, body and soul, for his very own?

Set against ancient druidic forests amidst political intrigue and violent betrayal, The Centurion’s Prize is a tale of a love that could save two worlds—or destroy everything in its path.

The Centurion's Prize

KD: What did you enjoy most about writing Nara and Corvin's  story?

HB: I think my favorite part about writing The Centurion’s Prize had to be Nara. To me, she was well-formed and complete in my mind long before anyone else in the story was. I often cringe when people claim the book wrote itself, but with Nara, she really drove the story for me.

The first draft was done within two or three weeks!

And while editing did take a while longer, this story proved to me that when you take the time to flesh out your characters/plot/details (whatever you need to have in place…I think it’s different for every writer) before you start the writing process, the experience is much less painful! (Spoken by someone who has countless works-in-progress that were dropped after the excitement wore off). So I think the moral of the story was to figure out what I needed to get that manuscript done…what did I need to be really excited about writing it? Well, for me, I needed a character like Nara!

KD:  Are you working on any new stories at the moment?

HB: Yes! Tons! (That was sort of a joke, but not really…) But highest on my to-do list is finishing up the initial edits and creative loose ends on Book 2 in the Taming the Centurions series, “The Centurion’s Redemption”. New characters and a new premise, but we’re still going to have a hunky centurion named Soren and a beautiful “barbarian” named Genessa. In this next story, our hero has been put through the ringer before we even meet him and he’s given up on life. What better than a talented, strong woman to give him a reason to live (and love)? Hopefully “The Centurion’s Redemption” will be out later this year or early 2012.

KD: Your book's publisher is Beachwalk Press, which just opened its doors in July this year. What's was it like working with a brand new publisher?

HB: All I can say is “Wow!”

Pamela Tyner, founder of Beachwalk Press, has been an absolute dream to work with. She’s incredibly upbeat and positive and is working hard to create a sense of community among the staff and authors at Beachwalk. The core group of authors she selected to start with has also turned out to be the friendliest and most sharing group of gals I could ever hope to meet. Some of us are newbies in the marketing/promo arena and the authors who have been through this before are quick to offer advice and tips that have helped them.

This was my first experience publishing and I have to say, I couldn’t have asked for a better start. I’d heard horror stories about working with editors who want to change everything about your story and that was just not the case with my editor, Tir (Antonia Tiranth). I love her!

KD: You also give workshops for writers. Can you tell us about some of the things you teach in your workshops?

HB: In my particular graduate program, I had the opportunity to be a teaching assistant. In this college, that meant you taught undergraduate creative writing students and from some of these classes I ran, I began putting together online workshops for the various RWA chapters. To date, I’ve taught a characterization workshop using Jane Austen as a mentor and a course based on the “hero’s journey” monomyth that focused on fleshing out your heroine as a complete character. I’m putting together a proposal for a class that would teach the basics of engaging creative nonfiction and apply it to author blogs. I love blogging and am interested in seeing how we can apply the rules of narrative nonfiction that I learned in graduate school and while working as a reporter at two newspapers to create interesting posts and series.

This year was my first jump into these online workshops and it wasn’t exactly as easy as I thought. When you are teaching real, live, and in person, you can often use the body language of your students to gauge whether or not you are on the right track and have their attention. In the age of lurkers and online forums as a medium for your class, well, sometimes you hear crickets and are left wondering if your fly is down or if there is a boogie in your nose!

KD: In college you were in an MFA program, which most authors salivate over. What kinds of courses did you enjoy most? And would you recommend such a program to aspiring authors?

HB: When I was completing my MFA, I was in the poetry program. (Don’t laugh!) By the time I was graduating, I was serious about wanting to write what I read, which happened to be genre fiction (romance and mystery, mostly). Well, in my particular program, I was a bit of the odd girl out. My peers loved the stories I was bringing to workshops, but my professors would constantly lecture me about not producing work that was “literary” enough. Bah! I wasn’t interested in writing what they wanted, so my last semester of the program was interesting to say the least! I graduated and am proud of it, but who I was in that program is a far cry from the writer I am in 2011.

I think there are wonderful low-residency programs that will give authors the freedom to express themselves, but to be honest, the most beneficial part of an MFA program is not the teacher feedback, it’s the workshop experience. I honestly believe my local writers’ groups (RWA and more general location-based groups) that offer weekly critique groups offer more than a very expensive degree that will hang on your wall. Learning from others and being accountable to produce material for upcoming meetings made a huge difference in shaping what kind of writer I am and what kind of writer I’m aspiring to be.

I’ve been a part of online critique groups as well, and if you’re lucky enough to find folks who “get you” and who you understand, the help you can offer each other is pure gold. Not to disparage MFA programs, but if you’re actively pursuing genre fiction (especially romance), this genre is so full of generous, veteran writers and editors who want to offer a helping hand that you’ll probably gain more from them than from a $30k per year writing program.

Bottom line, if you have access to one and want the degree, go for it. You won’t regret it. But if you can’t, you have incredible resources within your reach for much less (and often free) that will give you more specific guidance on your goal of publication in the romance genre.

KD: Tell us a little about your early background. Where did you grow up? Did you come from a large family or a small one? Were you a good student in grammar school?

HB: Was I good grammar student? Well, I was a very smart kid and got good grades when I wanted to…which was until about 10th grade! After that, I was your typical teenage girl who wanted to hang out with her friends, go on dates, and obsess about mean ex-boyfriends. I’ve never been overly driven in the grades department, unfortunately! But I have been an athlete my whole life and always pretty fearless in trying new adventures, including a stint in professional boxing and MMA in my 20s, and a whole host of tattoos that I can hardly explain to my straight-laced husband nowadays. (*grin*) I’ve been a sorority sister, an overnight DJ, a newspaper reporter, a professional prize fighter, a mama, a wife, a teacher, an editor, a waitress, a food blogger, …all in under 33 years. I may not know a lot, but I know how to have fun and try new things. If the romance business doesn’t pan out, at least I can say I gave it a whirl, right?

KD: Tell us a little bit about your writing process. Do you write every day?

HB: I am productive in bursts. I’ll have months where I am so motivated to work on a project that I’ll haul my carcass out of bed each morning at 4 a.m. and write for two hours before work. Other times? I can go weeks without opening my laptop. Terrible, isn’t it? But it all goes back to making sure I have something I’m passionate about. Sometimes, with my three kids (two boys and a 5-week old baby girl), my attention is diverted. But it always returns to romance writing eventually.

KD: Where can readers purchase your book?

HB: Here are some links!

Beachwalk Press: http://beachwalkpress.com/shop/the-centurions-prize/

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Centurions-Prize-Taming-ebook/dp/B005D7EI94/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311727631&sr=8-1

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-centurion-x2019-s-prize-harper-bennett/1104320165

KD: Where can readers find you and your workshops on the web?

HB: I do my best to keep this page on my Web site updated with my whereabouts. It’s the best place to see what I’m up to!

http://www.harperbennett.com/p/workshop-appearances.html

You can find Harper at http://www.harperbennett.com/ and on Twitter (http://twitter.com/HarperWrites). She also checks her e-mail obsessively and would love to hear from you: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

KD: Thanks, Harper! Now, readers, you are in for a treat. Here's an excerpt from The Centurion's Prize:

“You are not in danger as long as you are under my protection,” he said when they were clear of the gate. “Do not fear my soldiers.”

“I’ll keep that in mind the next time I am rendered unconscious,” she whispered.

Her hand was soft and warm in his. Try as he might to concentrate on the short journey to the magistrate’s home, Corvin’s thoughts centered on the skin-to-skin contact between them. Nara’s hand was not limp. It was not passive. Corvin could not help but notice she grasped his hand with a strong grip and held tight.

The walk was short—too short. Soon, the dark sky that melded with the darkness of the trees and the cover of branches gave way to paths lined with braziers leading Cadeyrn’s palace. In the distance, he could see the Celtic soldiers patrolling the front entrance.

“How did you manage to get past four guards?”

“There are nine, actually,” Nara corrected him. “Three additional circle the grounds and two more travel in the opposite direction that you did not notice.”

Corvin gave Nara an incredulous look.

Who was this girl?

She was no mere princess, that much was certain. A coddled, sheltered normal female would not have made it three paces out of her own bed chamber without being spooked back inside…and Nara managed to get herself all the way to the garrison’s gate before being detected.

The moon had moved in the sky, out from the barrier of the foliage canopy to shine on Nara’s face as she looked up at him from beneath her hood. She smiled.

“The guards are fools and think only of wine and women,” she said. “And the forest guides me.”

Corvin frowned, confused by the cryptic statement but let it pass, as his mind was also focused solely on women—one woman in particular. Slowly, he reached for her cheek, hoping Nara would not flinch at his touch. When she closed her eyes in response, he quickly moved forward and kissed her.

Foolish, yes, but when her mouth opened against his, his primal, male instincts took over and he swept his tongue past her teeth, exploring the sweet taste of her. Nara moaned softly.

His other hand grasped her waist, and he continued the gentle, probing kiss. He was in no hurry, and he did not want to frighten her. God above, but she tasted good, and as she pushed back into him, urging him on, it took every last ounce of discipline and willpower in his body to break the kiss.

“I will see you again soon, Celt,” he said with a half-smile.

“If you are lucky, Roman,” Nara said. She trotted off into the night and Corvin watched as she disappeared into the shadows. She moved toward the back of the structure until she was out of view.

Corvin stood motionless for a few moments, the taste of this enigmatic Celtic princess still on his tongue. His Celtic princess.

 

KD: Wow. I think Corvin's got a handful in Nara. I can just imagine the fantastic chemistry between them. Readers, hold onto your hats, Harper is offering the following prizes for comments:

  • A copy of The Centurion's Prize
  • Copy of “Gladiator” (the movie…I know they aren’t centurions…but it’s Rome! And I love Russell Crow!) or of the 2010 movie “The Centurion,” another great flick. Winner’s choice.
  • A handmade bracelet and earrings set inspired by Nara’s run through the forest in chapter one.

Harper will choose a winner at random on August 12 from the comments here at Write About AND she's offering extra entries to anyone who friends her on FB or becomes a twitter follower and retweets the interview link. Fantastic! So, questions, comments for Harper?

Last Updated on Friday, 05 August 2011 08:09
 
Guest Blogger Vonnie Davis PDF Print Write e-mail
Sunday, 24 July 2011 16:13

Welcome, Vonnie! The floor is yours!

Kat, thanks so much for having me here today. I’ve been looking forward to our visit.

Vonnie Davis

I read once where the learning curve of a writer is continual. How true.

As I flip through the pages of my debut book, I wince in a few spots. I’ve learned so much since I wrote those lines. Thank goodness for online classes and workshops.

Silly me, I thought that all I had to do was tell a story. I could do that. Right? I mean I knew how to write. I’d majored in English, with a concentration in technical writing as a non-traditional student, at Penn State. I was in my mid-forties when I first enrolled. I also tutored foreign students on how to research and write their papers, using APA or MLA standards, depending on their majors. Later I worked as a technical writer. Grammar, sentence structure, literary tropes—I knew them all.

What I didn’t know was the craft of writing.

Point of view, character arc, conflict resolution, just to name a few.

Still, learning is so much fun that my journey—my continual journey, I might add—is a delightful one.

I’m retired now and married to an author. We’ve both had books released within the past month. Talk about promotion madness! Calvin’s book, The Phantom Lady of Paris, is set in the City of Light in 1968. Calvin lived there for a year, during that era, while on sabbatical so his prose is peppered with the flavor or Paris.

Storm’s Interlude is set somewhere I’ve never been—the hill country of Texas. Heck, I’ve never even been on a horse. Thankfully, those old research skills served me well, for my book deals with modern cowboys, nurses and how a serious illness can affect a family. This is a story that flowed out so quickly, I seriously thought it couldn’t be any good. Previous books I wrote took at least a year as I wrote and rewrote chapters. This book was birthed in three months and sold in two weeks. Gee, maybe I was editing the life out of my stories. No, I think I was still climbing that learning curve, panting and struggling with every improvement.

Storm's Interlude

Here’s the blurb of my book:

Nurse Rachel Dennison comes to Texas determined to prepare her new patient for a second round of chemo. What she isn’t counting on is her patient’s twin brother, Storm Masterson. Despite her initial attraction, Storm has two things Rachel can’t abide: a domineering personality and a fiancée.

Half Native American, with the ability to have "vision dreams," Storm dreams about Rachel for three nights before her arrival. Both are unprepared for the firestorm of emotions their first encounter ignites. Ultimately, it is Rachel’s past—an abusive, maniacal ex-boyfriend—that threatens to keep them apart…and Storm’s dreams that bring them together again.

 

I’d like to share an excerpt. Storm and Rachel meet in unusual circumstances along a dark country road. Storm, who’s on his way home from a guys’ drinking bash held at their old swimming hole, is on foot and Rachel is driving a Beetle convertible.

He nodded and then his attention shifted to the back of her car. “You a gardener? See you got plants on your backseat.”

“They’re herbs. Healing herbs for a new friend who’s sick.”

She thought she saw a flash of pain in his eyes. His hand slowly moved across her shoulder to her braid, sending shivers down her spine.

“You’ve got mighty long hair. Guess braiding it keeps it outta your eyes while you’re driving with the top down.” There was a quick smile, white teeth flashed and dimples winked.

Rachel swallowed. Dimples. He just had to have dimples. If she didn’t soon get away from this man with his muscles, his deep voice and those prominent dimples, she’d be nothing but a puddle of femininity on the front seat of her new car.

He raised the braid, looping it around his fingers before letting it fall. “Bet all that tawny hair is glorious when it’s loose.”

She blinked twice. Just how was she supposed to react to that remark?

“Anyone ever tell you you’ve got full, sensuous lips that make a man wonder? I’ve seen those same blue eyes before, too. Been driving me crazy, in fact.” What the heck was he talking about? He curved his large hand around her neck. The rough calluses on his hand and fingers sent shivers up and down her spine. Her eyes connected with his and her mind took a momentary joyride on one of those adjustable mattresses—she’d have to set it to firm. Her eyes dropped to his lips. Oh, yeah, most definitely firm. She imagined sex with him would be wild and passionate.

His voice deepened as he groaned, “I have a feeling I’m going to regret this, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to live the rest of my life wondering...” Ever so slowly, he leaned toward her. Dear God, was he going to kiss her? Her heart rate jumped into triple-time and a flock of crazed butterflies started dive-bombing in her stomach. Oh yeah, he was definitely going to kiss her—and crazy, or not, she was definitely going to let him.

Dark powerful eyes slid from her mouth to her eyes. “If you say no, I’ll stop.” Her tongue slipped out and wet her lower lip. He evidently took it for the welcome it was and captured her lips.

Firestorm—his kiss, gentle nips at first, quickly turned potent and fierce. He tasted of spice, whiskey and beer. There was a faint smell of lime-based cologne mingled with the dank smells of creek water. Her toes curled in her pink sandals. Oh God, she was in big trouble. Thank goodness she’d taken her hand off her gun or she’d have shot her car dead.

Heat flooded into every cell of her being as his lips and tongue gave and took. Begged and commanded. Whispered and roared of more male potency than she’d ever experienced. He groaned and pulled back just a tad, his eyes heavily hooded with desire. “Like I said, that was a mistake. Madness of the full moon.” With his Stetson still firmly held in place, he kissed her gently on the forehead and stepped away from the car into the darkness.

 

Visit my at my blog sometime. www.vintagevonnie.blogspot.com

My website is www.vonniedavis.com

Buy links for Storm’s Interlude:

http://amzn.to/pkkcLq -- Amazon

http://bit.ly/rcCIMa -- The Wild Rose Press

http://bit.ly/pb9DQd -- Barnes and Noble, Nook only

Thanks for joining us, Vonnie and for sharing that fantastic excerpt from Storm's Interlude.

Last Updated on Sunday, 24 July 2011 16:49
 
An Interview with Janet Mullany PDF Print Write e-mail
Written by Kat Duncan   
Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:32

Let's welcome Author Janet Mullany to Write About! Janet is an award-winning, multi-published author who writes books set mainly in Regency England.  Janet is originally from England but now lives near Washington, DC. Her day jobs have included working as an archaeologist, performing arts administrator, classical music radio announcer, and editor/proofreader for a small press.

Author Janet Mullany

 

KD: Welcome Janet and congratulations on the upcoming release of your book, Tell Me More from Harlequin Spice. Tell us a little bit about Tell Me More.

JM: Thanks, and thanks for having me here! TELL ME MORE is a book about the erotic power of storytelling and about the relationship between fantasy and reality and what happens when they overlap. And it's funny. It's the sort of erotic romance I wanted to read, where people were having sexual adventures for excitement and pleasure, not to heal wounds in their pasts or become better human beings. I don't do that sort of book.


KD: What a great premise for a story! Do you enjoy writing for Spice as much has you have for your funny, romantic historical?

JM: It's different, a different side of the same coin. I'm convinced I write the same book over and over anyway. I go into it with a different mindset. When you’re writing an erotic romance you always have in the back of your mind how your characters will make love. With a historical it’s how they’ll fight, or dance, or ride. And then you build from there.

Book Tell Me More


KD: There is something valuable in having a familiar pattern to stories and then playing with that pattern in different ways. Your historicals are described as hot or racy. What do you like best about writing hot historicals?

JM: Some people have claimed they have no sex which I find really interesting. My Little Black Dress books, which I categorize as Regency chicklits, are first person narratives so I had to stay true to the voice and tone of the time when you wouldn’t get blow by blow bedroom accounts. Besides I really don’t believe good erotic writing has to be explicit—explicit language is one of the many tools in the toolbox. You can do amazing things with gloves, stockings, fans, neckcloths. Yum.


KD: Oooh...sounds fascinating! Your most recent books are Jane Austen mashups, correct? Tell us a little bit about how this came about.

JM: Not quite. They’re books about Jane Austen as a vampire in an alternative history where vamps are out in society and very popular among the ton. If you invite the Damned to dine chances are you’ll be dinner and dessert. JANE AND THE DAMNED is set in Bath in 1797 and I throw in a French invasion for extra biting opportunities. JANE AUSTEN: BLOOD PERSUASION is set in Chawton in 1810, where she spent the last eight years of her life revising early works and writing new novels, and hanging out with vamps.

Book Jane and the Damned

KD: Ah, for those who love paranormals and historicals, it's the best of both worlds. Have you always liked reading history? Do you enjoy doing research for your historicals?

JM: I’m lucky because I grew up in England and so I have a vast knowledge of what places and flora and fauna look like, and how people speak. I do research only on specific topics—for Jane and the Damned I researched Bath and the fear of French invasions in the 1790s. I did more specific research, including a wonderful trip to Chawton last year, for Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion. I’m sure I’ll be called to task for making hideous mistakes.


KD: Tell us a little about your background. What was it like growing up in England? Were you a good student in school?

JM: Where to start … I went to an all girls school that had a very butch female gym teacher who used to like to watch us have showers. I was a terrible student, a loudmouthed troublemaker but somehow I (and the school) survived.


KD: Creepy teachers, ugh! Lucky for you that you had a strong personality, perhaps somewhat like your characters? :) What prompted you to move to Washington, D.C.?

JM: I marry Americans. The current one has family here.


KD: Tell us a little bit about your writing process. Do you write every day?

JM: Of course! (in case my agent and editor drop by). It’s a bit patchy but I do go into periods where I write and write, which is what happened at the end of TELL ME MORE, one of the longer books I’ve written.


KD: Great! Tell Me More sounds very much like a story readers won't want to end! Where can readers purchase your books?

JM: The usual places, Amazon, B&N, Borders. My Little Black Dress historicals are available through bookdepository.com, an online bookstore I love, with free shipping worldwide, although my latest, MR. BISHOP AND THE ACTRESS, is available on Kindle

KD: Where can readers find you on the web?

www.janetmullany.com

Twitter @Janet_Mullany

My FB author page, www.facebook.com/pages/Janet-Mullany-Author/144530775580812

I blog at riskyregencies.blogspot.com on Thursdays.

Thanks for having me!

KD: Thanks for visiting! Jane is offering a free signed copy of Tell Me More to one lucky commenter. Just leave a comment or ask a question to be entered. Contest closes on Saturday, July 23 when I will announce the randomly-chosen winner!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:08
 
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