If you enter the title of my novel, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior, into the Amazon search engine, up my book will pop, despite the fact that its pub date is not until February 12th. And no, there's nothing about pre-ordering it mentioned on the page. It's just there. For sale. I found this out thanks […]
Here it is! The cover image for the novel, due out on February 12th. I'm really happy with this cover because I think the woman in the image has the verve and energy of Emma Jean herself. A bit of background on the process of selecting the cover. My wonderful editor sent me three trial […]
Two stories: Story number one I'm sitting at my computer, laughing. My husband asks me what I'm chuckling about. "Oh, I'm proofing my novel. I'm not sure if this is good or bad, but Emma Jean makes me laugh, even though I wrote her." I've gone through edits, and copy edits, and now one round […]
So, auditorally is not a word. Who knew? But this, my dear writing friends, is why God created copy editors: to tell us such things. I recently finished going through the copy edits for my forthcoming novel, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior, and my wonderful copy editor researched the word auditorally in three dictionaries before deciding […]
I'm deep into the edits for my novel, Emma Jean's Bad Behavior, and some things are becoming apparent. As in, writing tic type things. As in, the little silly stuff I do over and over again. I thought sharing these tics might be helpful to you. I know I'll be much more conscious of them […]
The day came. My edits for the novel arrived. And I promptly left for a two-day vacation. We went to the beach to stay with old friends, our daughter and the Most Adorable Baby in the World in tow. I had visions of myself on the deck, feet propped up, laptop in lap, working away […]
