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Waiting for inspiration to strike is like waiting for lightning to strike on a specific day at a specific hour in a specific place. Don’t do this. The only way to get past writer’s block is to GET PAST IT and write.
Continue readingMany blogs have been written on the reality that one should always write for oneself. There are also variations of that theme; such as how writing to be rich and famous is a fool’s journey and the trials of endless rejection letters. Granted there are some aspects unique to writing,…
Continue readingTwo years ago, around this time, I found myself cloistered in a Barcelona hotel room for hours at a time. While my husband pushed the latest and greatest of his company’s achievements at a technology convention, I slogged away the hours doing design for my agency back in New York….
Continue readingOne of the joys of writing fantasy is that you get to tell fantastic stories. Our newest novel, The Tendrils of Fate (currently being queried), stars a creature called a naera–which is our mix of Nereid, siren, and mermaid. When submerged, Avaren Ensther transforms into a creature of legend, but…
Continue readingDuring the last three years Marzio Ombra and I have been busy co-authoring Tendrils of Fate, a romantic fantasy novel that features a naera–a watery abomination with eel tails for legs and the torso of a woman. The term naera is one of my own making, derived in part from the…
Continue readingWhisperers Mir’kadi, Eighteenth of Sund’im Rime thickened along the Swoughünd’s hull until she began to list sideways. The cries of her captain pierced the morning fog, sending sailors scampering into the frozen harbor. They descended along the docks with pickaxes and clubs, ready to break the ship free of the…
Continue readingSometimes it can seem that everyone, their mother, and their grandmother is jumping on the novel-writing bandwagon. The indie publishing sphere has graduated to the terminology “artisanal publishing” for a reason: because it’s closely approaching the well-oiled machine mechanics of the big six. Indie authors are writing books in record…
Continue readingI have desired for some time to update you readers with news of the novel Marzio and I are crafting, but it seems that every time I have a spare moment it goes to some other, fleeting fancy. I am exceedingly drawn to distraction as a matter of course, especially such…
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