Me and Brinda Berry have too much fun discussing the word innards on today’s Life & Books. If you receive this blog as an email, click this link to see the video: Life & Books & Innards… Brinda Berry lives in the southern US with her family, where she surfs (the internet) too much,...
Life & Books: The Hardest Part… The Hardest Part of Being a Writer. About Brinda Berry: Brinda Berry lives in the southern US with her family. Brinda is obsessed with cairn terriers, Kings of Leon, illustrated cookbooks, new technology and sandy beaches. She dreams of finding the perfect pillow–no small feat. She’s also terribly...
Author on the Couch: Shelly Alexander This week on Author on the Couch, I conduct a session with… GIVEAWAY! Shelly would love to give away a Kindle copy of Book 1 – IT’S IN HIS HEART and Book 2 –IT’S IN HIS TOUCH. Just do these two things: Share this post on Facebook or Twitter. Leave...
Life & Books: Contests If we’re gonna talk about critiques, we’ve got to talk about the critiques we’ve gotten from contests. Confession: I’m a contest whore. Before I signed with my agent and Sourcebooks, I entered contests ALL THE TIME. So I’ve got a lot of contest stories to share. Here’s a few of...
Life & Books: The Worst Critique Ever If you’ve ever had a contest judge be a real jerk… If you’ve ever had a horrible review… If you’ve ever had a critique… THAT ALMOST MADE YOU QUIT WRITING… Then be sure to watch our video. This week on Life & Books: The Worst...
Life & Books: Hanging Out With Our Characters Characters. Characters. Characters. Every writer has a cast of characters inside their mind. Some of the cast are great people, people who–if they were real–you’d want to be friends with. But then there’s those other characters… The villains. The alpha male who reads good on the...
Life & Books: YOU and HIDDEN BODIES My favorite book of 2015 was YOU by Caroline Kepnes. Why did I love it? It was different than anything I’ve ever read. Joe the main character isn’t a good guy. He’s a bad guy. But there’s just something about him. Something compelling and almost redeeming....
Life & Books: When Characters Surprise Their Writers I LOVE reading books where the characters surprise me. A few weeks ago, I was listening to HIDDEN BODIES by Caroline Kepnes. Joe her main character did some things that had me literally yelling out loud. “No, Joe. No.” “Joe. Don’t do it.” “Oh,...
Life & Books: Brinda Berry Builds a Character. Characters. Characters. Characters. You can’t have a novel without them. It would be a boring book of nothing without fictional people to breathe life into the pages. This week on Life & Books, Brinda Berry discusses Collin from her New Adult novel TEMPTING FATE. The book...
This week on Life & Books, me and Brinda Berry chat about building one of my characters–Lathan Montgomery from HUNT THE DAWN (formerly known as Dangerous Dreams). It might surprise you how he came to me… How do your characters come to you? Do they arrive fully formed or...