This week I’m participating in the “Writing Process World Blog Tour."
I was invited to join by author Violet Ingram..
VIOLET INGRAM is a wife, for over 24 years and a mom of five. She writes Romance and Mysteries. Her first book, DEATH BY HIGH HEELS, is available from Sweet Cravings Publishing.Violet’s
love of books was the direct result of having spent Saturday mornings going to
libraries with her mom. Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown were the
first books she fell in love with. Violet lives in Ohio where she is busy at
work on her next book. She also cannot get enough NCIS, The Good Wife, The Walking Dead, Nashville, and Elementary.
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DEATH BY HIGH HEELS is available at:
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Little something about me!
JENNIFER
DAVIES is a wife of eighteen years and is married to her best friend and her
biggest critic! She is a mother of four very active boys who constantly keep
her on her toes and give their share of sleepless nights, but they are her
greatest source of pleasure and pride. Reading is a love of hers, and some of
her favorite authors inlcude Jodi Picoult, Deborah Harkness and
Cassandra Clare. Through her love of reading she developed a thirst and passion
for writing. Jennifer has written her first YA romantic fantasy titled Children
of Annwn:The Promise due for release in September,
and she is currently writing the second and third book in the series.
The story
centers around Mia Leronde who is from the Otherworld a magical realm hidden to
humans through magic. After falling in love, and undertaking the Promise an
ancient law she is sent into the human world to test the power of her love, and
if she fails to fulfill her promise, she will remain in a world she doesn't
belong and lose her magic. It's about making a promise and fighting against all
the odds to fulfill it despite the challenges one may face. It's good versus
evil where both Mia and her love Ryder are tested because when they arrive in
the human world, they have no memory of their past...
As part of the blog hop, all of us are answering the same four questions about our writing process. So here goes!
1.What am I working on?
As a newly signed author with Secret Cravings, my first YA romantic fantasy called Children of Annwn: The Promise is due for release in September. At the moment, I waiting for my editor to return the manuscript for me to work on the edits. In the meantime, I am working on the second book in the trilogy.
Seventeen-year-old Mia Childs always knew her visions meant trouble, but when her dream boy Ryder turns up in real-life, all
her secrets coming tumbling out, even the fact that she isn’t human.
2. how does your work differ from others in your genre?
That's a tough one! I just interviewed Claudy Conn, an amazing paranormal and historical romance writer, and she undertakes a lot of research before she pens her stories. She reads the information until she knows it. Well, I have a confession. I read books in my genre, and I print out a lot of information that I use to back up what I am saying in the story to add details, but I also look up things as I am writing, because my mind will ask questions as the story is progressing, so my research is on-going! Like, Claudy Conn, though, I have ideas for writing stories in different genre's and the reason I chose her as my example is because I have a WIP called Capturing the Last Welsh Witch, and it's an adult paranormal! I'm at 40,000.
3.Why do you write what you write?
Hm, since I was a teenager, I have loved reading romance novels. I love the historicals and would love one day to perhaps have a go at writing one, but I also love fantasy and paranormal! Ideas for stories simply come to me, and I like to try different genres. I guess, I'm discovering what suits me best as a writer. I have a paranormal on the go, two more books for the YA romantic fantasy series to write, an erotic, in a very rough draft, a short story I'm revamping, and an idea for an adult novel that is ?? title, The Seventeen Year Itch!
4.How does your writing process work?
Every day I have a plan!
That plan is to write! I would like to say that I write for so many hours every
day, but that doesn't always happen. Every day is different! My day begins early.
I am usually the first one up, and the best time to write, for me, is the
morning after a strong cup of tea. When the kids are in school, I have trained
myself to sit and write for several hours. The hardest part is not to go back
and make edits straight away, but to let the free-flowing writing do its magic!
I will write in the evening if the writing is going well, and occasionally my
husband is known to let me write at the weekend if I was aiming for deadline.
Below, is a picture of my office, and I love it. The blinds open and close as
dictated by the amount of sun, music is selective and always in the background,
unless I need total silence, when I need to concentrate and brain storm and
then no one can bother me or beware!
Below is a list of wonderful authors joining me on this blog hop and they will be posting on the 12th August.
ROBIN A. STEVENS
rhabirites.blogspot.com
JEANETTE SMITH ANDERSON
http://jeanettesandersen.blogspot.com
RAANI YORK
http://www.raaniyork.wordpress.com
Children of Annwn: The Promise is due for release in September, 2014.
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