IndieView with Velda Brotherton, author of Wolf Song

It’s fun, it’s hard, it’s rewarding. And writing is in the enjoyment of the process, more than the product.

Velda Brotherton 7 July 2012 Continue reading

IndieView with PJ Sharon, author of Savage Cinderella

When I wrote HEAVEN IS FOR HEROES, I knew I had the book that should be published immediately. But the story is about a seventeen-year-old girl who loses her brother in Iraq. If I waited for an agent to pick me up …

PJ Sharon 05 July 2012 Continue reading

IndieView of reviewer Jeff Clough of Maynedon

 

When I order a book from the Big 6, I don’t know that I’m getting a great book, but I do feel comfortable thinking it’s the best that particular book could be. 

Jeff Clough 3 July 2012 Continue reading

IndieView with Michele Drier, author of SNAP: The World Unfolds

I struggled initially because I didn’t want my vampires to just be do-nothing killers.  To make them interesting, I had to have them evolving, not just violent, static figures.

Michele Drier 30 June 2012 Continue reading

IndieView with L.C. Giroux, author the the Lovers and Other Strangers series

I have found, now that I know it will happen, I let things drop for a couple of days and do all the dishes and laundry that have been piling up. I hate cleaning enough that sitting down to come up with the next plot point doesn’t seem so bad after all.

L.C. Giroux 28 June 2012 Continue reading

IndieView with Cynthia Woolf, author of The Swords of Gregara-Riza

 

The Back Flap

Riza Lamrona was a highly sought after plastic surgeon on Alarcon. In a society dependant on machines for their health care, she’s one of the few who can change the human body not just fix it like a machine. Unfortunately she has the misfortune to be the best at her job and when notorious space pirate wants to evade the authorities by changing his appearance he finds Riza. Now that the job is done he wants her dead to keep his new identity a secret.
Darick Remaul is a former Space Patrol Detective who now owns a profitable kalcion mine on the planet Gregara. It’s as far away from his former life as he could get. Darick has secrets of his own but recognizes someone in trouble when he sees them. Especially when it’s a beautiful woman. When a bounty hunter threatens her life he offers her a safe haven at his mine as their new doctor. But who will keep her safe from him? Continue reading

IndieView with Jill Hughey, author of Sass Meets Class

Every book has started with a strong scene in my head. In many cases, that scene does not make it into the end product, but is what exposes the main characters to me. 

Jill Hughey 23 June 2012 Continue reading

IndieView with Jenna Ives, author of Snow White and Her Seven Lovers

I think every writer borrows traits from people we know. The trick is not to let them recognize themselves in the character or they might get upset with you!

Jenna Ives 21 June 2012 Continue reading

IndieView with Kathy Bennett, author of A Deadly Blessing

I understand the stresses that many of these characters face…if I haven’t personally experienced those pressures, I’ve dealt with the outcome in investigations I’ve handled. I put those feelings and experiences into my books.

Kathy Bennett 19 June 2012 Continue reading

IndieView with Alina Adams, author of Counterpoint

I worked on it for close to a decade and then the first half of what became Counterpoint: An Interactive Family Saga was the writing sample I used to get jobs at ABC Daytime and with As the World Turns and Guiding Light. The fact that it was just a sample and not finished was what inspired me to write it in collaboration with my readers!

Alina Adams 16 June 2012 Continue reading