Today we’re pleased to have paranormal author Adrianne Brennan visiting with us. She shares how she gets most of her inspiration and the latest on her recent releases.
Welcome to Happy Endings. Can you tell us a little about your latest release?
Certainly! I’ve had two recently plus a third coming VERY soon, so I’ll talk a [...]
Just when I thought I had gotten myself together and hunkered down to write. I find a another obstacle.
There is a new evil in our midst and its name is Facebook.
Now, before everyone calls for my head, hear me out
I love Facebook. It has helped me connect with friends from my high school [...]
I’d like to thank Jeannie Ruesch and Happy Endings for letting me join this motivating group of authors. For my first official blog here, I thought I’d talk about gossip. Agent Steven Axelrod said something in one of his blogs that we, as writers of fiction, gossip about imaginary people. I fell in love with [...]
I have never been much of a teacher, so hopefully this comes across in a way that’s helpful, even if in just some little way. It’s nothing more than a before and after example of a manuscript I wrote back in 2004/05. I edited it in 2009, submitted to The Wild Rose Press, and am [...]
As you read this, I’ll be somewhere in the Caribbean on-board a beautiful ship, Celebrity’s Equinox. The last time I was on a ship, I was 16 and headed to Europe with a study group of 153 high school students. The ship we sailed on wasn’t exactly a luxury liner. It was a freighter that [...]
Welcome to session 1 in our Book Video Workshop. [Updated February 2, 2010]
You’ve likely learned by now that publishing a book isn’t all about writing. Once the writing is done, along comes another phase of work: marketing. One of the emerging ways to market takes a page from television: creating a mini commercial for your [...]
Today, we’re pleased to welcome special guest(s) K.M. Daughters, as they share their latest release, CAPTURING KARMA, Book #3 in the fabulous Sullivan Boys series available at The Wild Rose Press. This book has received 4 stars from RT Book Reviews and follows in a series of highly reviewed books, AGAINST DOCTOR’S ORDERS and BEYOND [...]
Today, I am thrilled to welcome our special guest, Jimmy Thomas. Many of us are romance readers, which means we also have those meaty, sexy and wonderful covers to stare at whenever we feel like it. But what about the people ON the cover? Ever wondered if they are real? Jimmy Thomas is one such [...]
One of my biggest weaknesses is setting. My early drafts could be set in any suburb — like the featureless town where I grew up. I would try to go back and add setting details, but they felt irrelevant and tacked on (as indeed, they were).
Then last November, I attended a Fire in Fiction workshop [...]
A reader wants a story she can get lost in. A story that will make an impression, make an impact and stay with her for days afterward (if not longer).
As writers, it’s our job to give the reader that lasting feeling of connection, a tug on the heartstrings or a puzzle to tantalize the mind. [...]
Thanks to everyone for commenting on Friday’s post by Larry Brooks of storyfix.com. The winner of Larry’s ebook is Linsey Lanier! Congrats! Please email me at jeannie@jeannieruesch.com to arrange for the purchase.
Be sure to stop by later this week — our residents on tap: JK Coi on Tuesday, Katrina Stonoff on Wednesday, and Thursday and [...]
Today, I’m thrilled to welcome Larry Brooks, bestselling author and the man behind one of my favorite blogs, StoryFix.com. I stumbled across Larry’s website by accident and I promptly found his series on Story Structure (started here). After reading every part, I printed them out and grabbed a notebook and set out to watch some [...]
I can just imagine James Cameron walking into the weekly brainstorming session at my writers’ group….
Book Videos (or Book Trailers) are definitely a hot ticket item for authors… it seems everyone is creating them or paying to have them created. If you aren’t certain what a book trailer is, there are a few examples that I’ve done for clients at the end of this post.
But most people overlook what makes [...]
You’ve created the “perfect” character — layered, unique, an average guy with a hero’s capability or a hero with a quality that brings him down to earth. Your story has moved along perfectly, your pace is fabulous, your character is primo.
But, wait.
Is he too perfect? Is he so perfect that he’s incapable of making a [...]
