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Eeee! I have cover art for Too Many Fairy Princes! Or at least, I have seen a mock up of what the cover art will be like when it has finally been made. I didn’t really have a clear idea of what I wanted to see on this cover. Maybe a view of London with…
Oh no! I suffer from all of these! Fortunately (or not) I know I’m not alone. In fact, I just finished reading a book which was such a martyr to this one that I’m going to quote it whole: Imprecision: When writers just miss the target ground with their word using they on occasion elicit…
I’ve enjoyed reading the 10 rules of famous writers in the Guardian’s Ten rules for writing fiction article. I’ve just picked the ones that resonate most with me. Some of them make a worthy list which puts me off ever reading any of their work, and some – Anne Enright in particular – sound so…
Heh, after writing that blog post about how to add more female characters to your novels, I immediately started worrying if I was a classic case of ‘do what I say, not what I do.’ With some relief I thought of Lady Farrant in False Colors, Emily in Captain’s Surrender, Krissy, Caroline and Alec’s mum…
This weekend I have done three different text layouts on one book cover, received two different sets of suggestions for improvement, applied both and sent the resulting two different layouts to the publisher for a final decision on which one to go with. I’ve done three different concept mock-ups for another book cover. I’ve read…
In a spirit of trying to broaden my mind and my experience of the Romance genre (I grew up reading SF/Fantasy, and had never read a romance before writing Captain’s Surrender), I decided to try some of the famous authors I’ve been hearing about. Georgette Heyer was not exactly a disappointment because – aware of…
