Guest Post by Diana Hart When I started writing Cauliflower Heart, back around 2009, I was really quite depressed. I found that writing about my life was very therapeutic. I started writing from an autobiographical point of view, then found I was happier writing things from a fictional aspect. I didn’t want to hurt anyone […]
Author Interview with E.M. Nelson At what point did you decide to be an author and what was your path to publication? I’ve wanted to be an author since 6th grade. I had an English teacher who assigned us a writing project that lit the spark for me. I have written several- really bad- manuscripts which […]
Guest Post: What would Mary Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein) think about the new Victor Frankenstein movie? It’s coming out in November, and it stars James McEvoy and Daniel Radcliffe. (Q and A with the stars.) It’s yet another interpretation of Mary’s famous story, that she wrote in 1816 at only eighteen. Since then there have […]
Guest Post: Marie Landry’s Favorite YA and NA Books Thanks so much to the ladies of Chapter Break for having me here today! I thought since the Angel Island companion series is a mixture of YA and NA, I’d share some of my favourite books in both categories. by Stephanie Perkins I’ve read this book […]
Guest Post: John Connors on Character Work One of the clichés of writing fiction is that your characters become real but that is entirely true. Not literally real of course; that would be very strange, but in your story telling head. There comes a point during the process, especially if you’re writing a series of books featuring the […]
The Chocolate Book Tour, Guest Post by Sarah Hill Not so long ago, I was asked to take part in something called ‘The Chocolate Book Tour’. Well chocolate and books together are a match made in heaven to me, so I was definitely interested. At the mention of ‘chocolate’ at least, I’m also hoping to […]
A Persona of Characters, Guest Post by Jean Shorney Aidan McRaney On my writing journey I’ve created many characters. Of all of them I suppose my favourite as to be Aidan McRaney, for whom I’ve written the Aidan McRaney Trilogy. The Trilogy begins with his initial release from prison, to his undercover work as a covert […]
Five Things Every Romance Novel Should Have Humor. A strong female lead. Have both the male and female leads have lives of their own in the story (ie. scenes with the female lead and her friends/family and same with the male lead and his friends/family) I believe that ads more depth to their character. Show […]
Guest Post: Inspiration for Schooled in Magic by Christopher Nuttall The Schooled in Magic series draws on so many different inspirations that it’s hard to say just when and where it jelled into its current shape. It started as a combination of a desire to do a ‘wizard school’ story and a ‘time-traveling expert’ story – the latter generally […]
‘Trespassers’ Q & A – Saul Delino What is Trespassers about? Essentially, Trespassers is about a disabled, agoraphobic architect-turned public speaker fighting to regain control of his life when an adolescence crime comes back to haunt him. I was keen to write a book that really reflects the diversity of modern London, so I decided […]