Roanna has been in love with Webb for as long as she can remember. As a child, it was a sort of hero worship, but as she grew older, the love matured into something more real. So it broke her heart when Webb married her spoiled cousin, Jessie. Then one day, everything falls apart. Roanna […]
Author Archive: Christine
Workshop: Beginnings
I’m teaching another Savvy Authors Workshop starting next week…Beginnings. It’s about what it sounds like it’s about…beginning a novel. We’ll talk about the all-important hook, and how to fill the reader in on background info without dumping it. It doesn’t matter what genre you write, most of the tricks and tools remain the same. I […]
Book Review: Zombie Penpal
Back in second grade, you had a pen pal from New Orleans, but she disappeared when Hurricane Katrina hit, and you haven’t heard from her since. Now you’re in 7th grade, and there’s a new girl in school who some thing is a zombie, but who you think reminds you of your old pen pal. […]
A Chocolate Snob’s Easter Shopping
I give up! Really, I have no choice, and should have given up, on principle, years ago, but I fell in love with that smooth milk chocolate and refused to believe the experience was over. Alas, it is, and has been ever since Hershey’s bought Dove. The change in quality was marked and instantaneous, and […]
Book Review: Aching for Always
What a fun story! The worst thing about it, IMHO, was the title. It just didn’t grab me. I haven’t read this author before, but put this on my to-read list based on the summary. Trouble was, every time I perused my to-read list, I couldn’t remember what this story was supposed to be about, […]
Book Review: The Perfect Mistress
Juliet’s great-grandmother considered herself the perfect mistress, and was so proud of her life that she wrote about it in detail and left the memoirs to å granddaughter who never received them. Juliet inherits them when her great-uncle dies, right around the time she finds herself in a serious money crunch. Her solution — sell […]
Tips for Writers: The Value of Schedules
I like plans and I like schedules. I have short-term, medium-term, and long-term plans for my family, my home, and especially, my career: Fiction writing. The schedules make me feel safe, they help me set goals and feel like I’m working towards something, but ultimately, they’re an illusion. Let’s take my family: I planned to […]
2012 Epic eBook Awards
EPIC’s eBook Awards™, formerly known as EPPIE, began in 2000 to recognize excellence in ePublished works. The eBook Awards are open to all electronically published works: novels, graphic novels, short stories, non-fiction, and poetry. And in the science fiction category, the the winner is….. Here is the list of all the 2012 winners: […]
Book Review: Griffin’s Fire
I first met Griffin in Griffin Rising, the story of a young angel in training, fighting his way through very human issues and emotions. In that book, his character stole the show. I liked him a lot, and he continued to haunt me even after I stopped reading the book. Which was why I eagerly […]
Book Review: Canyons of Night
Get ready for it: This is book number 12 in the Arcane Society Series, number 3 in the Looking Glass Trilogy, and Harmony number 8. Got all that? Good, because judging from the way this book ended, I think it may also be the first book in another subseries. 🙂 This is Jayne Castle, aka […]