The thing I like best about Arial is she lets me explore an old voice that is as deep as it is dark.  This taps into my love for purple prose, that I normally can't use in my YA fiction.  :-)

Cast your eyes not on the vast ocean of this world,
but instead look to your feet and always… remember me.
You cannot begin to understand the power of my ( Read more... )

Last night I had intentions to write another post about voice this morning-- a more in-depth post.   I'm not feeling it right now though.  Hopefully, I'll find the words for it later today.

Progress is the word of the day. :-)  I'm hoping the base for our kitchen counter will go down followed immediately by our sink and the dishwasher. I'm running ( Read more... )

Of course you're not going to get some love-sick teaser from me today! No, no, no. :-) Actually, I really can't post any kind of kissing scene from PA because that would give away too many things. But, I can bring you relationship building and bloody, dead things. Because that's Laura and Gray for you.
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He had a head and he didn’t have a ( Read more... )

The annual MMRA contest is about to start! I hope you have something good planned out for me. :-)

The dates for 2011 contest will be January 6,7,8,9.  During those four days, I will be accepting the first two pages of any writer’s novel at the email address: makemeread (at) gmail (dot) com.

Here are the rules:

In the subject line of your email put ( Read more... )

First off, tolerate me, please, while I talk to myself here.  What I'm wondering is if it would be terribly wrong of me to set PA aside and finish Push first instead. Okay, yes, I have an audience waiting on PA. I know this. I swear I know it. And I know it's very important that I don't let them down. But Shannon won't shut up! And every song I ( Read more... )

I could be considered almost extinct on LJ these days. Not my fault because we're in the middle of a move and a house remodel. Sorry. I'm posting a tiny tot teaser from my latest wip Panthan's Abyss. Enjoy or scroll on by. ;-) This is in Laura's POV and the "he" in question is Gray.

"He glanced at his freshly clotted wrist then back at her. A sharp ( Read more... )

Pretty much I'm just doing research these days on Voodoo and Hoodoo.  And making notes. And making my own little handwritten spell book.  I have been convinced that Hoodoo and Voodoo are different. Voodoo is a Haitin religion while Hoodoo is an all-American practice heavily influenced by Voodoo, Catholicism, and Native American religion. So ( Read more... )

We got home from vacation yesterday evening.  I'm still recovering, but promise to splat your friends page with pics tomorrow. ;-)  For today I'm posting a small snip of interaction between Laura and Gray.  (Panthan's Abyss)  Enjoy ( Read more... )

 Understand that Arial is a little messed up in everything she does.  And I don't mean that she's a clumsy nut like me. ;-) I mean that she's a dark creature with a sad past, but unlike Laura doesn't have the luxury of being able to get over it and grow as a person/panthan.  She is what she is.  Some of my readers are going to like her.  Some are ( Read more... )

I usually write my way out of these types of days.  The type I'm having today is a day full of ghosts.  It started with a dream I had last night and it just kept following me around. I know the healthy thing to do is to find something to keep my mind off it, but sadly, for the normal folk of the world, this isn't how I get my writing done.  I had ( Read more... )