Music I Love: Alone by Bee Gees
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Friday 5: Suz Demello
Please welcome Suz Demello to the blog today. Thanks for joining us, Suz!
What kind of books do you read for fun?
Right now I’m really into Young Adult paranormal—stuff like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Cassandra Clare. I love Libba Bray’s books, especially Going Bovine.
What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
Uhhh….oxygen?
If a genie granted you three wishes, what would they be?
Ten thousand wishes and a really hot guy.
What is best writing advice you can give?
Read excellent writing.
Can you share a little about your current release with us?
Would love to, and thanks for the opportunity. Sherlock’s Scandal is Sherlock Holmes fanfic, which can be published now because courts have declared that the Holmes stories are public domain.
Here’s what it’s about:
Are you a Baker Street Irregular? Sherlock’s Scandal is a very irregular Sherlock Holmes tale, but who isn’t attracted to the tall, handsome Holmes as he stalks through the foggy streets of Victorian London, saving the day again and again?
Follow Sherlock as he woos and wins the elusive Irene Adler. Sherlock’s Scandal is a typical Suz deMello read: fast paced with a whole lot of kink!
And here’s where you can score a copy:
http://www.ellorascave.com/sherlock-s-scandal.html
Here’s my bio and a few URLs:
Best-selling, award-winning author Suz deMello, a.k.a Sue Swift, has written seventeen romance novels in several subgenres, including erotica, comedy, historical, paranormal, mystery and suspense, plus a number of short stories and non-fiction articles on writing. A freelance editor, she’s held the positions of managing editor and senior editor, working for such firms Total-E-Bound, Liquid Silver Books and Ai Press. She also takes private clients.
Her books have been favorably reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist, won a contest or two, attained the finals of the RITA and hit several bestseller lists.
A former trial attorney, her passion is world travel. She’s left the US over a dozen times, including lengthy stints working overseas. She’s now writing a vampire tale and planning her next trip.
–Find her books at http://www.suzdemello.com
–For editing services, email her at [email protected]
–Befriend her on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sueswift, and visit her group page at https://www.facebook.com/redhotauthorscafe
–She tweets her reading picks @ReadThis4fun and @Suzdemello
–Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/suzdemello/
–Goodreads: http://bit.ly/SuzATGoodreads
–Her current blog is http://www.fearlessfastpacedfiction.com
Friday Five: Robyn Bachar
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This week my guest on the blog is Robyn Bachar. Thanks for joining us, Robyn!
What kind of books do you read for fun?
I enjoy a variety of romance—historical, paranormal, sci-fi, pretty much anything with a good story. I’ll read any heat level. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of sci-fi romance. I highly recommend Cathy Pegau’s f/f sci-fi romances. They’re awesome.
What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
Coffee. I can barely brain before I’ve had my first cup of coffee. It’s essential to life and to writing. I’ve spent a lot of time in coffee shops working on my books.
If a genie granted you three wishes, what would they be?
I’m too paranoid for wishes. Genies are crafty, and will always use your wishes against you somehow. Like you wish for a million dollars, and the genie poofs a pile of money into the room—from a local bank, and now you’re on the hook for bank robbery. No thank you.
What is best writing advice you can give?
Apply butt to chair and turn off the Internet. When you come to a spot where you’re stuck, or where you’d be tempted to chase the research rabbit down the Wikipedia hole, use brackets. Like, [add fight scene here] or [research local history later]. Once you’ve hit your word count goal or finished your first draft then you can go back and fill those holes in.
Can you share a little about your current release with us?
Morningstar is the second book in my sci-fi erotic romance Cy’ren Rising trilogy. (The first book, Nightfall, is currently a free read.) Morningstar picks up about six months after the events in Nightfall, and it’s packed with spicy m/f/f romance and space opera action. And a virgin hero, which I know is catnip for some readers. 😉
You can find Robyn at the following links:
Twitter
Blog
Facebook
Google+
Goodreads
LibraryThing
Shelfari
Amazon
Nightfall is currently available as a free read at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, All Romance eBooks, Kobo, Samhain Publishing, and the iTunes store.
Morningstar is available for purchase at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Samhain Publishing, and the iTunes store.
I’m having cocktails with Deanna Wadsworth today
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I’m having cocktails with Deanna Wadsworth and discussing my gay romance novel, Recession today. Swing on by Deanna’s blog to see what we’re drinking and learn a little more about the book.
http://deannawadsworth.blogspot.com/2014/09/cocktails-cock-tales-with-amanda-young.html
Banned Books Week
Catcher in the Rye . . . Harry Potter . . . Captain Underpants . . .
Every year, there are hundreds of attempts to remove books from schools and libraries. Celebrate YOUR freedom to read and right to choose your book during Banned Books Week, September 21 to 27. For more information, visit http://www.ala.org/bbooks.
Friday Five: Neil Plakcy
This week my guest on the blog is Neil Plakcy. Thanks for joining us, Neil!
What kind of books do you read for fun?
I read all kinds of books, from literary to genre, but my favorites are light-hearted mysteries and romance.
What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
Chocolate – preferably dark.
If a genie granted you three wishes, what would they be?
1. A cure for Parkinson’s Disease
2. Enough money so that I could live comfortably and just write
3. Round-the-world travel
What is best writing advice you can give?
Learn to read like a writer – analyze the books you enjoy to learn how the author handles sentence structure, pacing, character development, etc.
Can you share a little about your current release with us?
I have three books coming out this fall. Love on Stage is the second of my “Love on” series of M/M romances for Loose Id, about recent college grads falling in love on South Beach. Accidental Contact is a collection of ten short mystery stories from MLR Books, about the hero of my Mahu Investigations series, openly gay Honolulu homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka. The Next One Will Kill You is about a young gay FBI agent solving his first big case in Fort Lauderdale, and will be out from Dagger, a new mystery imprint from Riverdale Avenue Books.
Tuesday 10: Ten Pros & Cons Of Self Publishing
This week the Tuesday 10 is all about the pros and cons of self-publishing. I’ve listed five of each. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Pros
1. You control price and cover
2. Publication is almost instant
3. Easy to implement changes
4. Without a publisher serving as a middle man, you get to keep all the profits
5. Retaining complete creative control of the project
Cons
1. You’re responsible for professional editing, formatting, and cover art
2. Greater potential to cut corners and publish substandard books
3. All the upfront costs and financial risk belong to the author
4. If you publish in print, it’s almost impossible to get copies in book stores
5. You’re on your own with legal matters if you should be unfortunate enough to have your work pirated or plagiarized
Friday 5: Guy Ogan
Please welcome Guy Ogan to the blog today. Thanks for joining us, Guy!
What kind of books do you read for fun?
I love to read in the Paranormal genre’ since that is where I write. I’m not however a big fan of Horror. My vampires were “turned” for the most part because they were attacked by the evil type of vampire, but survived for various reasons. My vamps swore to fight against evil, be it vampire, human criminals or evil politicians.
What’s the one thing you can’t live without?
Well, other than the normal food, air and shelter most living things need, I have to have my Kindle (with over 300 books loaded, about 100 read so far – I leave comments as long as I can make them at least a four-star).
If a genie granted you three wishes, what would they be?
A fiscal conservative President, Senate and Congress would be my first wish, a Supreme Court that followed the Constitution and Bill of Rights as written would be my second, my third would be for U.S. manufacturing to be reinvigorated.
What is best writing advice you can give?
Write what you’re passionate about and either know or can thoroughly research!
Can you share a little about your current release with us?
In my third book, “Immortal Relations Coming Out” my good vampires, having saved the world from a nuclear war, an oil crisis caused by terrorists and two ecological disasters, discuss “coming out” to the humans in order to form a true symbiotic relationship. There are twists and turns that cause the release of information to be stymied at first, but other factors enter into the situation when they set up a new coven in Southern Canada with which to monitor the efforts of the Marxists in Washington D.C. trying to destroy America.
You can buy Immortal Relations Coming Out here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G5BQS18/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Or learn more about the Immortal Relations series here:
