It took three years, but I've finally finished my latest novel. It's been a two-and-a-half year gap, and then I finished it in two months. Shame I can't write at the latter speed all the time ( Read more... )

Wow. Four years sure flies when you're depressed, huh? Among other things, the suicide of a family member in 2009 sent me into a tailspin that lasted this long. I was still able to write a little, but two years ago, that dried up at well ( Read more... )

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Ever since my first novel was released, I've had every intention of keeping up with my journal, sharing all sorts of amusing anecdotes and obeservation that I always thought writers had at there fingertips. I suppose I thought they'd somehow magically appear for me once I was published.

They didn't.

I'm going to try again, of course, now that my ( Read more... )

I know I have to start posting with some regularity here. Hopefully RL will calm down this year. A brief update: I finished my second novel (a fantasy) and I'm waiting to here back about it. I'm currently researching my third (a Regency) and I'm hoping to start the actual writing next week ( Read more... )

These are definitely encouraging.

Elisa Rolle's LJ

Literary Nymphs

Well, tomorrow's the big day. "The Desire for Dearborne" will be available from www.dreamspinnerpress.com in both paperback and e-book.

Behind the cut is an except from the novel. While attempting to locate his carriage after a play, Leander is accosted by a street thief. Julien comes to his rescue and takes Leander home in his carriage.

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So the release date of "The Desire for Dearborne" has been moved up from July to June 15th, and although I'm overjoyed and eager and all those things you'd expect, I'm also becoming unnerved. I've been hearing a great deal about promotion and reviews, but I don't have the slightest idea how to go about it, or when to start. I've joined several ( Read more... )

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Good news: made a determined effort to buckle down on the new novel, and spent a couple of hours on it.

Bad news: novel completely jumped the tracks, went in a direction I didn't expect, and things that were supposed to happen three chapters from now started happening nowGood news: somehow, all the threads managed to come together--even those that ( Read more... )