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Blog postThe details for the national book tour for A Heart So Fierce and Broken have been announced! Will I be coming to a city near you? I’d love to see you! Tour graphic below (feel free to copy and share!) or visit my EVENTS page for more details. I can’t wait to see you, Cursebreakers!
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Want to show off your inner Harper, Rhen, or Grey (or anyone else)? Costumes and cosplay are welcome at all tour stops! Brigid and Jodi will also be in costume for the Boston, MA stop. -
Blog postThe Cursebreaker street team will help spread the word about A Curse So Dark and Lonely and A Heart So Fierce and Broken, and they will also be the first to get new updates, sneak peeks, access to giveaways, and more. Everyone is welcome! If you are interested in getting more information, sign up here!
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Blog postCurrently reading: Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione. (Yes, yes, yes, it’s a paranormal romance.) I also just finished Unearthly, by Cynthia Hand, one of the recommended books from the contest.
A couple people have hinted that I haven’t written a writing post in a while. I’m no expert, and I only know what works for me. All the same, I’m happy to share what I’ve figured out. Let my sweat be your … well, that was just about to sound gross. So just keep reading.
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Blog postOkay, really, I should have titled this post, “How I wrote a query letter.” Because I’m not an expert on writing queries. You can find fantastic advice at Query Shark or Evil Editor, or even on some writer sites like Absolute Write. Many, many agents have done posts on writing the perfect query letter (like Nathan Bransford). Start there, then come back here.
But I also know that it’s tremendously helpful to read queries that worked (i.e., got requests), and I’ll try to break down wha -
Blog postLet me tell you a sad story.
So two years ago, I went to RWA. I ended up having lunch with a girl I’d never met, a friend of an acquaintance. She was very nice, and she was coming to lunch fresh off a pitch session with an editor.
She claimed the pitch had gone horribly. She had spent two years writing this romance novel, all about a girl moving to Paris to escape a bad relationship. She’d been querying somewhat successfully, but no real interest. The pitch session started wel -
Blog postA friend emailed me the other day and asked where I find time to write.
It’s not the first time I’ve been asked this question. I have a full time job — a real full time job, made up of a forty hour work week, combined with an hour long commute each way. I have a three year old who is in day care and preschool, and I have an awesome thirteen year old stepson who’s with us half the time. I also coached fall soccer for the preschooler’s team, and I’ve participated in just about every sch -
Blog postI love a good action scene. I write urban fantasy, and I love nothing more than to throw some punches, swing some swords, and draw back a bowstring.
Good action scenes can propel a story forward. It’s a good opportunity to reveal a new side to a character. (People react very differently under pressure, and a fight scene brings out all kinds of emotion.) Fights can let you show empathy, cruelty, courage, fear, anger, fury, humiliation…I could go on all night.
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Blog postAll right, no one came out pointing fingers and calling me a no-talent hack, so we’ll keep this going.
Enough rules. Let’s just talk.
Passive voice In my experience (and let’s be honest, it’s not all that vast), passive voice is one of the most misunderstood aspects of writing. Raise your hand if you’ve gotten slammed for passive voice on a message board for writing a sentence like, “The girl was running through the park.”
Imagine me raising my hand.
First, let -
Blog postHaha, that title’s kind of a joke right there.
I’m not one for the writing posts. I’m not a teacher, I don’t have an MFA, and there are a billion-and-one posts all over the web about how to strengthen your writing.
But there’s not a lot out there about revising, especially for beginner writers. There’s a lot of reference to it. Everyone always talks about doing it. Second drafts, fifteenth drafts, whatever. Some people edit as they go, some people do it at the end, some people
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