Friday, July 26, 2013

Celebrate the Small Things: 7/26

"The guide book says turn left at the next Starbucks."
"But we're at Stonehenge."

I learned some important lessons this week. 

1) Do research on WIP locations before you outline a whole bunch of action that takes place there.

2) Just because you visited a place as a child doesn't mean you'll remember it enough to write about it.

3) Big cities are not interchangeable.  Case in point: NYC has underground subways, but Chicago's are almost all elevated.  Plus, much of the architecture is different (brownstone condos vs. gray-stone houses).  So you can't write with NYC in your head, pretend it's Chicago, and hope no one notices.

4) If you realize you know nothing about your setting, give a shout-out for help. Someone you know or a friend-of-a-friend will probably volunteer the info you need. 

"I swear that Metro-map said this was a bus stop."


This week I'm celebrating people who help you out
with location details.

Big thanks to everyone on FB who helped me,
especially Elizabeth Arroyo!



Did you ever try to write about a well-known place you haven't been to?  Did you bs it or do research?




This post is part of VikLit's blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things. To be part of this blog hop, all you have to do is follow the link and put your name on the Mr.Linky list, and then be sure to post every Friday about something you're grateful  for that week.  It can be about writing or family or school or general life.  This is the funnest and easiest blog hop ever!


Friday, July 19, 2013

Celebrate the Small Things: 7/19

Hey, guy with the camera. 
You'd be dinner if it wasn't too hot to move.


Things I'm celebrating this week: 

1) I got my edits from MuseItUp this week. They were minor -- thank goodness!
2) With some suggestions from my awesome CPs, I finished the first round of edits in just a few days!
3) Although my fan is still not fixed yet, my A/C is working up a storm!



Indicated
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This post is part of VikLit's blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things. To be part of this blog hop, all you have to do is follow the link and put your name on the Mr.Linky list, and then be sure to post every Friday about something you're grateful  for that week.  It can be about writing or family or school or general life.  This is the funnest and easiest blog hop ever!

Monday, July 15, 2013

Cover Reveal: Cloaked in Fur

Available August 5th, 2013

Cloaked in Fur
Paranormal Suspense with Strong Romance

Synopsis:
          As a moonwulf, Daciana never expected to fall in love with a human.  Hell, she never imagined that she’d abandon her pack, endanger everyone around her, and break the worst rule possible.  But she did.

          A rogue werewolf is killing Daciana’s friends, and she sets on capturing the creature.  She’ll do whatever it takes to stop the beast.  The police and her boyfriend, Inspector Connell Lonescu, are starting to question her involvement in the murders, which is endangering the pack’s secret existence.  But when the pack alpha kidnaps Connell, revealing the awful truth about the creature and its connection to the pack, Daciana must choose between saving the man she loves and saving her pack family from certain death.



Publisher: Crimson Romance





Author: T. F. Walsh

T.F. Walsh emigrated from Romania to Australia at the age of eight and now lives in a regional city south of Sydney with her husband.  Growing up hearing dark fairytales, she's always had a passion for reading and writing horror, paranormal romance, urban fantasy and young adult stories.  She balances all the dark with light fluffy stuff like baking and traveling.




Author Links:
Website:  http://tfwalsh.wordpress.com
Twitter:  www.twitter.com/TFWalsh
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/TF-Walsh-Author/399540826795103?ref=hl
Pinterest:  http://pinterest.com/tfwalsh/
Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18132518-cloaked-in-fur



Friday, July 12, 2013

Celebrate the Small Things: 7/12


My husband works in a nearby city and comes home on his days off, Thursday and Sunday.  Somehow, all my household items know when he goes and by the time the taillights are out of view, all hell breaks loose.

1) The light switch in the bedroom won't work.
2) The living room ceiling fluorescent just keeps flickering and won't turn on all the way.
3) The water heater keeps over-heating and spits out steam from the faucet, so I have to keep turning it off.
4) The large free-standing fan stopped working.
5) A pipe in the bathroom is leaking. 
6) The channel that broadcasts ESPN America disappeared and it's only a month and a half until NFL starts! Nooooo!

On the good side:
1) My laptop is fine, the internet is working, so I'm still online with all my virtual buddies!

I hope your week has been better than mine...




This post is part of VikLit's blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things. To be part of this blog hop, all you have to do is follow the link and put your name on the Mr.Linky list, and then be sure to post every Friday about something you're grateful  for that week.  It can be about writing or family or school or general life.  This is the funnest and easiest blog hop ever!

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

IWSG: Promotion

First, you get your newly-published book, and you're like:

Yippie!!!
(image from clipartheaven.com)


Then the Promotion Monster rears its head:




And pretty soon you're strapped into the car,
sucking down coffee, wearing a long-distance diaper,
and mumbling:

But you're NOT ALONE!  There are others going through the same thing.  Find them on blogs, Facebook, or Twitter. If you join together, you can collaborate on exciting blog hops, make bigger giveaways, do cross promotions and even share expenses going to book fairs or conventions.

If you need help -- just ask for it!
There are more people willing to help
than you realize.




 BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Sarah's Reviews is helping promote three of C. Lee Mckenzie's novels by offering copies of them on her blog.  For the Rafflecopter giveaways, go to the page-links below.



















This is a post for the Insecure Writer's Support Group, the brainchild of Alex J. Cavanaugh. It exists so the community of blogging writers can share and support each other, blog-hopping to cheerlead and commiserate. To find out more, visit: Insecure Writer's Support Group.



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