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There is one thing to always remember about historicals, the people who read them then to know their history. They will not hesitate to point out if you're wrong. I remember this even though it's been several years, a 20-something member of one of my on-line writers group cheerily announced she was going to write a historical but she found research ( Read more... )

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So I was thinking about reviews lately, mostly because I haven't been getting too many and while the empirical data behind whether or not it helps sales isn't as solid as I'd want it to be, I think it would help some. No, this isn't me begging for reviews (but if you read something of mine and you liked it, I'd love you to go to Amazon/Goodreads ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've put any real content here other than the What's Up Wednesday stuff. I should fix that up. I of course choose the day I earned a wound from making my steampunk hat.

Seeing chrissymunder's plan for the end of the year, I thought 'hey, that's a good idea.' It would be helpful so here we go.
( 100 Things #81 Planning out the rest of the year. )

( 100 things #80 Believablity and it's importance. )

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Because authors can't ever have enough of these. I often have too many of them but I really wanted to participate in this challenge. It seemed like fun (I even thought about putting in a prompt of my own but wasn't sure how many authors did that or was it more just readers. Now I see it's both.) Competitions for prompts was stiff but I did end up ( Read more... )

( 100 Things #74 - Riding High )