Hungry young writers often snap up writing advice as if they were starving, internalizing it and making it part of a core truth. It is tempting. We spend most of our lives accepting the word of authority figures, beginning with parents and teachers. I sometimes wonder what I believe without question that is exactly wrong. […]
Author Archive: Christine
Book Review: Abithica
What if you were some kind of disembodied spirit, moving from host to host, living life through other people’s bodies, but never having a life of your own? What if you didn’t know what you truly are, let alone who you are? Could you find happiness or love? A minute ago, she was Claire, who […]
Why I Don’t Own an EReader
I’ve been pushing read an eBook week for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that my own titles are available in electronic format (as well as print). I think eBooks have a lot to recommend them — they are cheap to produce and distribute, and they have the potential to allow […]
Read Chapter One of The Immortality Virus
Chapter one of The Immortality Virus is now up on my web site in a blatant attempt to get you hooked so you’ll want to buy it when it comes out in June. Enjoy!
Read an eBook Week
Twilight Times Books is giving away FREE books all week in honor of read an eBook week. One of these books is “How I Wrote My First Book: The Story Behind the Story,” which contains an article I wrote: My Million Words of Crap. This book will be free all week. Also, each day select […]
The Immortality Virus Update
We’ve got cover art, we’ve got a back cover, we’ve got an edited manuscript, and it’s about to go to the printer. I’ll probably have ARCs (advanced review copies) in a couple of weeks. The book itself is still scheduled for release in June of 2011, so for the next few months, I will probably […]
How I wrote My First Book
Before I wrote my first book, I had to write at least a million words of crap. Writing a book isn’t a single experience, it’s a journey comprising not only writing lessons, but life lessons. I describe my personal journey in detail in “My Million Words of Crap,” one of the articles available in a […]
Book Review: Darkfever
Urban fantasy at its best. If you can get past the cover art, which makes the book look deceptively like the type of romance novel people are embarrassed to read (at least in public), what you’ll find is the story of a naive young southern girl whose illusions about the world are suddenly shattered when […]
Writing Tips: That Which Brings Them Together
In the genre of romantic fantasy, I will accept that spark of lust that occurs when two people notice one another for the first time, and the physical desire that underlies each new encounter. Heck, chemistry is important. I will even accept those things when they seem a bit larger than life, exaggerated for the […]