Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Top 10 Posts Countdown #1

Writer's cave hiatus--finishing Assassins Bite among other things. Enjoy the top 10 posts from my blog in the meantime :)

#1 A Pearl for Your Fantasy—World Building Made Easy

You’ve won a million dollars! Ever wonder what you’d do? Would you buy a sexy negligee, or a Maserati? Take an island cruise? Make a loan to a favorite relative?

What else would happen? Well, every investment broker on the planet would call you. Empty hands would deluge you. The one relative you can’t stand would demand the biggest handout (but you could flip him the bird. Go ahead. Hey, it’s your fantasy).

Read more:
http://maryhughesbooks.blogspot.com/2009/10/a-pearl-for-your-fantasy-offsite-post.html

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Top 10 Posts Countdown #2

Writer's cave hiatus--finishing Assassins Bite among other things. Enjoy the top 10 posts from my blog in the meantime :)

#2 My Spotlight at Off the Keyboard

Today please help me welcome Mary Hughes, author of super-sexy, super-funny vampire romances. Mary, I'm thrilled to be a host of your Biting Me Softly blog tour. Can you tell us a little about yourself? Sarah, thanks so much for having me here today! Basics: wife and mother, earn my living with my passions writing, computer programming, and playing flute. I think and read way too much but compensate for it by listening a lot more than I talk.


At what age did you discover writing and when were you first published? Tell us your call story.

My first experience with writing was transcribing my favorite story, Bambi, at age seven via an old Underwood manual typewriter. I started typing my own stories on a new PC when pregnant with my first child. I made my first sale twenty years later (I tended to write two novels for every rejection I got :)
Read more:
http://authorsarahgrimm.blogspot.com/2011/05/spotlight-on-mary-hughes.html

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

3T Writing Tidbit

An Amazon editor sees these common mistakes. http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/2014/05/eight-most-common-editing-errors-in-self-published-books/


Published since 2009, over the years I've accumulated various items of writing wisdom. The Third Tuesday Writing Tidbit showcases these items in no particular order. Click here to see all 3T Tidbits.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

1T Olio

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I am under some tight deadlines. So here are some kittens and puppies to make all our days brighter :)

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Today I'll turn in Heart Mates, Pull of the Moon Book 1 for pre-edits (release date March 2015)

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Thursday I turn in final line edits for Assassins Bite, Biting Love Book 8 (release date November 11, 2014).

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Next week I'm attacking developmental edits for Murder at Chipmunk Lake (release date July 30 if I'm really, really good :) )

Thank goodness for puppies and kittens!!