Okay, so we’ve talked about the equipment you need to write your novel, about finding time and space for writing. We’ve considered structure, setting, characters and plot plans, and we’ve done as much research as we need to do to get to the stage where we feel it’s possible to write about this setting. If…
Excerpt from Blessed Isle by Alex Beecroft 1790 British Age of Sail For Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he’s ever worked for….
Around Christmas time, I converted my desk to a standing desk. I’d like to say that I did this for worthy reasons connected to reading up on the latest health news and deciding to up-level my life and increase my productivity. This would not be true. I did it (TMI warning, skip to the end…
Edited quickly because this felt like something to share with my friends-list. HaikuJaguar on publicity and artistic insecurity: http://threejaguarscomic.net/ ~*~*~*~ Here is a lovely review of Captain’s Surrender http://julian-griffith.livejournal.com/27644.html which makes me smile not only with the joy appropriate to a good review but with the additional joy appropriate to a review that really seems…
I’ve been saying I should do this for a long time. Now I’ve finally bitten the bullet and done it. In my time I’ve made a lot of book trailers, but I only have Windows Media Maker to do it with, which generally means it’s some pictures and some text with an unrelated soundtrack. I’m…
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…
Elin Gregory kindly invited me to come and talk to her on The Armchair Reader about the dilemma faced by writers of LGBT fiction which is not erotica. It is a rant, but it is a polite one, I hope 🙂 http://coleriann.com/2013/04/08/alex-beecroft-elin-gregory-discuss-erotica-vs-romance-mismarketing/ Some great comments there already. Thank you!
Everyone has to do research. Even writers of contemporaries will occasionally have to look up police procedure, or how much a luxury yacht costs or what is the price of a room in the Waldorf, or what would really happen if you turned up in A&E with gunshot wounds etc etc. Writers of historicals know…
If you knew me in real life, you’d know that I was the one who sat in the corner of every meeting, listening and not saying anything. On rare occasions I might burst out with some wildly odd opinion on which I held forth for half an hour before realizing that everybody’s eyes had glazed…
His Heart’s Obsession was voted Best GBLT historical romance at the Romance Reviews! Woohoo! I get a little banner and everything: Thank you to everyone who voted for it. Virtual champagne and roses all around 😀
