RAPTURE-ous

Hi, all– Yes, I do have a bit of an apocalyptic streak in me, as some of you know, but I’m also fascinated by people who think they actually have a specific date (and time, in this case — 6 PM in each time zone. Sort of a “rolling Rapture,” I guess) that proclaims an [...]

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T is for…

TRAVEL! Cadillac Ranch, outside Amarillo, Texas. Photo by Andi Marquette Okay, peeps (notice cute Easter reference…hee!). A post here about one of my fave things to do: travel. As a writer, traveling opens up the ol’ eyeballs and brain to new and different experiences. It stretches my imagination and forces me to look at things [...]

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Operas! In! Space!

Hey, folks! Yeah, I know. You’re stuck with Auntie Andi this week. But have no fear! I’ve got some more folks lined up in the wings getting guest blogs ready for all of y’all. Anyway, today’s theme is opera. WAIT! COME BACK! Not just any opera! SPACE opera! Yeah, for real. That’s one of the [...]

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Playing in the Dirt

Not all writers need breaks. Stephen King says he writes every single day, and I’ve heard other writers claim the same. Me? I need dream time. After turning in the manuscript for “Maye’s Request” three days early, I haven’t written a word. Well, that’s not entirely true. I did some scrawling in my Writers’ Salon, [...]

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History in the Making by Nene Adams

HISTORY IN THE MAKING Bringing the Past to Life Nene Adams ©2010 Historical fiction is a relatively small niche in the lesbian genre, but I’ve chosen to write in this field because I love researching the past. I’m the kind of person who’ll cheerfully spend hours scouring hundred-year old tomes, my hand cramping as I [...]

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Read outside your box

Hi, all–Thanks to Sandra for the “thankful” list! Hope everyone is feeling groovy. Okay, first things first, and in case y’all care: I’m doing a book signing (marking the release of The Ties that Bind at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop in downtown Seattle.(um…yeah. The name probably gave that away.) So if you’re in that area [...]

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Confessions of a Guilty Writer by Sandra Barret

Confessions of a Guilty Writer Okay, it’s time, I confess… I’ve left readers in the lurch…out on a limb. It’s one of the worst things an author can do, and I’ve done it. More than once. So what am I talking about? I’m talking about the unanswered question, the unfinished tale, the incomplete story. In [...]

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Pantsing, Plotting and a Cheating, Oh My by India Masters

Okay, I admit it…I am a pantser. I get an idea and I run with it. I rarely take the time to plot out an entire novel. This is not to say I haven’t tried, god knows I have, but it doesn’t work for me. At least not the intricate plotting that many authors employ. [...]

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So Much Research, So Little Time by Sandra Barret

If you know my books, you know I genre-hop. Sometimes it’s a romance, sometimes general fiction, and sometimes speculative fiction.  Well, my current WIP is science fiction, another book in the Terra/Nova universe set up in Face of the Enemy. This one’s not a direct sequel, but it does continue some of the same ideas from the first [...]

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Where Does it All Come From? by India Masters

A while back, someone asked me about writing paranormal and sci-fi books. Why did I choose those genres and what was the process? Where do I get my ideas? And did I take anything from real life. Ugh. Could there be anything more boring than answering those questions? Then, the other day, my roommate was [...]

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