Kinley, I still haven't heard from you regarding your win in the critique contest! Please get in touch with my via email ASAP so we can set this up-- if I haven't heard from you by Thursday the 10th, I'll run the random number generator again and give someone else a shot.
Happy New Year, all! How are those fresh new writing projects going? I hit the ground running with work projects last week and haven't come up for air much (I do love a mixed metaphor, don't you?) but I miss all of you on the blog. Any ideas for posts you'd like to see?
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My fresh new writing project is going well! Of course, an idea would hit me right in the middle of holiday entertaining, and I'd have to manufacture a kitchen emergency so that I could find a quiet moment to scribble it down.
The current project is moving along nicely, and of course I'm in madly in love with it (I still have a while to go, I hope, before the MS and I have our first lover's quarrel). I'm working through this one in a different way, which has been interesting. I wonder if this experimentation, and each story having a different flow as you put it together is the same for established authors, or if it's a newbie thing?
I'm curious to know how YOUR project is going? Was Nano a success? Its so interesting to hear about agents and publishers and the like who have decided to try their hand at writing. You all have the scoop!
Jessica- "manufacture a kitchen emergency". I love it.
Sometimes the "emergency" was that I needed to open another bottle of wine....
I'd like to see a post with your thougts on romance subgenres. Any trends? Are we done with vampires and other creatures? (I'm not saying that in a snarky way...just curious). I also have a bunch of other idle publishing-world questions I've always wondered about. They probably aren't worthy of entire posts, but I'll throw them out anyway:
1. What the heck does it mean when you see a romance that says, "first time in print?" Like, did it have a life as a movie or something before? I've ALWAYS been confused about that. Unless it's meant to differentiate from a re-release of a backlist title? But how often does that happen?
2. Why don't they make movies of historical romance novels? I'm not talking about major theatrical releases, but cheesy Lifetime-esque movies? I seem to remember a few Barbara Cartland TV adaptations in my youth that I swooned over, and I (and about 800 other people I know) would get out the popcorn for a TV movie of an Eloisa James or Julia Quinn novel. How come no one ever sells (or buys?) those rights?
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