“Is she dying?”
“Yes. But she’s been dying, you know that.”
“Today. Is she dying today?”
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Because She Really Felt Like She Could…
WINDSINGER Is Available For Pre-Order! Here’s A Final Excerpt!! #goodreads #romance #kindle #amwriting
Only three more days until you meet the Elementals and the Twixters – magical creatures embodying the elements of earth, air, fire and water.
In this scene, Brad and Cecy have spent a night in each other’s arms, only to find their lazy morning upended by the arrival of her mother, an air elemental: Continue reading
The Countdown Is On! WINDSINGER Breaks In FOUR Days!! #amwriting #amwritingromance
Meet the Elementals – a magical race that inhabits our world embodying the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Cecy is a “Twixter,” the half-human offspring of an air elemental, who doesn’t always fit in with the rest of our world.
In addition to her magical heritage, Cecy bears another gift, one which will lead her to Brad, a scientist who is studying a very strange phenomenon – one that might signal a far deeper problem and a danger to life as we know it.
Together, they stumble upon a mystery that affects them both, and discover that playing it safe means nothing when love and desire are in the air.
We are four days away from publication! Windsinger is one of my most intricate stories yet – full of intrigue, full of laughs, full of magic, and (you know me…) full of STEAM!!
In Honor Of #TalkLikeAPirateDay – Read “Eight Nights At Sea” FREE!!! #romance #pirates
That’s right, me hearties!
Saturday is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and to celebrate, I’m offering Eight Nights At Sea ABSOLUTELY FREE today and tomorrow!!
Sail off for eight nights of adventure, intrigue, sarcasm and STEAM with a sexy pirate and his sensuous stowaway! Available in print or Kindle editions, via Amazon!
From Chell Morrow at LoveReadingLaughing.com:
“I will tell you this now–Zephyr already has my heart. This love story is so softly mystical. The details wrap around your heart and pull you in. Zephyr and Rina dance around loving each other so well, the twists and turns I never saw coming. Rina’s secret is so well entwined into the story I forgot she wasn’t who I thought she was (you’ll understand that sentence later, I’m not spoiling that one for you!). Rina and Zephyr are not your typical lovers and it is amazing. I found my self reading parts to my husband just to share with someone because I couldn’t hold my thoughts in. Eight nights at sea are not enough. If you love a good pirate, or if even if you don’t–this story is so magical it will make your heart spin.”
You can read book excerpts here, here and here!
This Week’s Great Writer Resources #amwriting #writing #writingtips
I keep an enormous running file of great writer tips and resources that I find as I’m surfing around, and I figure it might be a good idea to share some every week.
Here’s this week’s list!
How to write characters that are smarter than you
Building character in three dimensions
Neil Gaiman’s advice for beginners
7 simple edits that make your writing 100% more powerful
The smart way to open a story
Hope you found those helpful – I know I did!
Stowing Away Aboard A Pirate Ship Wasn’t A Good Plan…
He wasn’t a smart choice, but he’d do.
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(This book is FREE this Friday and Saturday (9/18 & 19) on Amazon
in honor of “Talk Like A Pirate” Day!)
Write What You Know? Where’s The Fun In That??
“Write what you know,” they say.
Because, if you’re being reasonable, writing about things you know makes perfect sense. Who knows about that? You do! You should write about it so other people can know it, too!
Which is great if you’re writing a memoir. Or a non-fiction book. Or a historical tome. Or a collection of recipes.
But if you write fiction?
Fuck that noise. Continue reading
Eleven Days Until WINDSINGER!! Would You Like Another Peek?
Cecy is part Elemental – a magical race that inhabits our world imbodying the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Cecy’s mother is an air elemental, and that makes Cecy a “Twixter” – the half-human offspring of an elemental.
In addition to her magical heritage, Cecy bears another gift, one which will lead her to Brad, a scientist who is studying a very strange phenomenon – one that might signal a far deeper problem and a danger to life as we know it.
Together, they stumble upon a mystery that affects them both, and discover that playing it safe means nothing when love and desire are in the air.
In this scene, Cecy has asked Brad to accompany her on a hike, and Brad – who only recently met and became beguiled with this fascinating girl, readily agrees – without the slightest idea of just how fantastical she really is. Continue reading
Write The Movie They’ll Make From Your Book #amwriting #writing
When I attended my first writing conference, I received an amazing piece of advice that has stood me in good stead.
“Write the movie they’ll make from your book.”
This helps with not only positive reinforcement (This book is going to be so good, they’ll make a movie out of it!) but it also keeps you focused on striking the right balance between showing and telling.
If you’ve got a ton of backstory to fill in, your first inclination might be to write five pages of it, but if your reader becomes your movie viewer, you know that watching that on screen would probably be deadly dull. Writing like you’re watching it helps you find where to use narrative vs dialogue, and it can be a really useful tool.
Here’s my for instance: in my book, Someday In Dublin, Michael and Amy meet in a Dublin bar, then strike up a romance. Somewhere along the way, Michael ends up visiting Amy in Pennsylvania and they spend a whirlwind day in Philly. In a movie, this would be a montage of them running up the steps of the art museum like Rocky and shoveling down cheesesteaks and pointing at the Liberty Bell. On paper, it needed a little more fun and heart to paint the picture: Continue reading
Britt DeLaney 