Sweet romance & zombie apocalypse: Should the genres mix or not?
What if a writer is inspired to write two stories that fall into two different genres? Should they write both despite the fact that their readers might not follow one of the genres? Or will fans of an author be interested regardless, provided there is a common thread they like that runs through that particular writer’s work? Check out this video and find out!
How do my stories come to life?
Writers get inspired to write a story in many different ways. And this here is mine.
Shakespearian romance and why I love it
Some books, some movies, have this tragic heart-breaking moment for our main protagonist, where the viewers/readers cannot but weep with them.
I love those scenes!
I love watching them (in movies), reading them (in books) and writing them as well (in my own novels). If you like those too, do let me know what do you think about Shakespearian scenes in my own novels.
Why do (my) books take so long to write?
“A (good) book may be late for six months, but a book published too soon is bad forever” by Rachel Aaron
I’ve received a few emails from you guys asking “When will the book be ready?”
Soon, I promise! Honestly!
But here’s a quick look at the whole process to show you why Swift Escape isn’t out yet. It’s a bad excuse, I know, but at least it offers some explanation 🙂
Here it goes. (Feel free to skip lines 1–40 😉 I won’t mind.) Continue reading “Why do (my) books take so long to write?”
The Senthien
“A mysterious Vision.
An astounding new world.
And a life she never could have imagined.
Five thousand years in the future, the Earth is dead. A galactic network of terraformed planets, connected by teleportation portals, is populated by the genetically improved Descendants. The original Humans, labeled dangerous and barbaric, are kept under constant surveillance.
In this seemingly peaceful society, Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, serves the leading race of Descendants by reporting her Visions of the future. But when one of her Visions predicts the unthinkable — contact with a Human man — Dora’s carefully ordered life begins to unravel as she desperately tries to hide her thoughts from her masters. Continue reading “The Senthien”
What is the book about?
Back from the dead. And not as a zombie as some of my youngest family members would like! 🙂
No, I am finally at the end of the long journey of writing my first book, “The Mind”. And the journey demanded a whole lot more than I thought when I was starting out. Continue reading “What is the book about?”
“Far Away” up-close
I believe that literary work doesn’t really belong to me any more once it’s out in the public. Every reader then makes of it whatever they want in their own imagination. So my intention was to not talk about “Far Away” at all, but there are two things that are mentioned in the story that I would like you to see/hear.
Stephen, you rock!
I’m reading “On writing” by Stephen King.
I love it, as most of his fans or aspiring writers would/do.
Two reasons:
First of all, this is the first book of his where I can actually “hear” him, Stephen King himself. Not Carrie White or Stu Redman. But Stephen King. And it was very nice to “get to know” him like that. And funnily enough, he reminds me of Dan Simmons’ Martin Silenius, a satirical character in the epic “Hyperion”. Continue reading “Stephen, you rock!”
Meat on the bone
I’m re-writing Book #1 right now. A few of my beta readers told me the meat on the bone is missing. So, I’m adding the muscle right now, doing some “body pump”, some “jogging”, “swimming”… Hopefully the body will be in good shape once the second draft is finished. In any case, in one of these new muscle-building chapters, my main character encounters a person who she already met at the beginning of the book (that part I wrote new as well). As they approached each other, Continue reading “Meat on the bone”