GUEST POST Writing the Villain- The Many Layers of Morality Struggle is a staple for any author. Characters need to face adversity and have a battle, be it internal or external, in order for us to have something to write about. My upcoming novel We Awaken is about two female asexuals in a same sex relationship. It being a young adult novel means that my protagonist’s asexuality does come into play […]
GUEST POST How Do I Get Story Ideas? As a debut author, I get asked about the inspiration for my stories a lot. Where do I get my ideas? Now that my first novel is published, how will I come up with the next one? Do I ever worry I’ll run out? I love these questions because I think the way inspiration works is fascinating. I also love answering these […]
And…I’m back with another Novel Newcomer post! Yay! In case you’ve forgotten what NN is, you can check out all of the details HERE. GUEST POST By the time this post goes up, my blog Princessica of Books turned one yesterday. I decided it’s only best that I reflect and share all my “firsts” of blogging. I had to do a lot of snooping around for this! First ARC: Weird Girl […]
Title: Scar: Celestial Talisman #2 Author: Caitlin O’Connor Release Date: July 22nd Pages: 253 Synopsis: Secrets surface when a traitor returns The scar on Vinny’s wrist is nothing compared to the scars on her psyche. She isn’t a hero, she isn’t even a good person, and when a skirmish with one of the Handmaidens of the Skaath Diurga ends badly, she knows it’s partly her fault. Nobody in the Circle […]
GUEST POST On Killing All My Darlings by Paula Stokes Hi guys! It’s Paula. Thanks to Nori for inviting me to hang out 🙂 Some of you may know that I cut almost 40,000 words (or about 175 pages of standard YA typeface) while I was revising GIRL AGAINST THE UNIVERSE. It’s not that the original version was bad. It was just…not right. So that’s a lot of darlings chainsawed […]
GUEST POST I’m still stunned. 2015 was a wild ride as far as my writing was concerned. I started out trying to find a home for my adult contemporary novel, Left Hanging, and ended up with a publishing contract for my YA novel, Tuned Into You. Yep. It was a year with more ups and downs than the Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Over Georgia. To back […]
And…I’m back with another Novel Newcomer post! Yay! In case you’ve forgotten what NN is, you can check out all of the details HERE. GUEST POST The Man Who Turned into Stone Cinderella, Snow White, Thumbelina – we’re all familiar with the fairytales largely made popular by Disney. I too grew up with these stories, along with others by Hans Christian Andersen and those collected by the Grimm Brothers. Being Indonesian, […]
GUEST POST Thanks so much to Nori for featuring me in a guest post about Transferral and the inspiration behind the book! Transferral is set in an alternate present-day UK, where criminals are punished by having the diseases of the innocent transferred to them. Talia Hale is the daughter of a Prime Ministerial candidate. When she saves a young girl from a cleaver-wielding madman, she’s hailed as a tough-on-crime hero. […]
And…I’m back with another Novel Newcomer post! Yay! In case you’ve forgotten what NN is, you can check out all of the details HERE. GUEST POST Dr. Selflove or: How I Learned to Stop Stressing and Love the Blog Hiatus Having an anxiety disorder is a very scary, very debilitating condition. When one is forced to live with it, day to day existence can often feel like life itself is a […]
I’m thrilled to have Stacey on my blog today sharing some pictures that describe Outrun the Moon! GUEST POST The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was the first major catastrophe to be photographically captured. The Richter scale hadn’t been invented yet, but scientists estimate the earthquake to have been a 7.9 in magnitude. This stunning bird’s eye view of the sun shining down on the devastated San Francisco days after the quake […]