Someday soon, when you go to the movies to see Stilettos and Steel starring Dakota Fanning, you might want to remember that the dyke who wrote the book it was based on, read and reviewed Rose’s Will. Just sayin’. Rose’s Will by Denise DeSio is a stunningly well-crafted novel. Ms. DeSio delivers literary strikes, rarely […]
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Stilettos and Steel
Jeri Estes has made it no secret that Jesse, the protagonist, in her novel, Stilettos and Steel, is closely modeled after her own life. So let’s hope that all of Estes’ former Catholic school teachers are dead or demented, lest they run across her book. Not that a Catholic school girl turned lesbian runaway is […]
Continue readingIf You’re Cranky and You Know It…
Some writers should consider another format, such as oral story telling, film-making, or photo-essay. Yes, find some other method of communication that doesn’t involve spelling, grammar and punctuation. I’m all for supporting my kindred struggling authors, but damn it! Edit your freaking work before you inflict it on me, especially for a review! I don’t […]
Continue readingLook at Me!!!
The truth is I’m an attention whore. Positive, negative, it makes no difference. I’ll do anything for a laugh, or even better, for that horrified look that normal people get when I say or do ridiculous things that they would never in a million years embarrass themselves with. So you could imagine the extra dose […]
Continue reading[No] Life After Publishing
I used to be a linear, focused person, accomplishing tasks in an orderly manner with a minimum of stress – until www.48fourteen.com published my novel. Now, I am a scattered, harried, recognition-seeking madwoman. I’m registered with Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ so I could , add skills, like, tag, re-tweet, and post by the hundreds […]
Continue readingUPMARKET FICTION: Controversial?
I got a call from a Facebook friend objecting to my description of Rose’s Will as upmarket fiction. “Doesn’t that sound just a little conceited? Not that your book isn’t better than 90% of the others out there,” she said, “but it’s probably a term better left to your readers to decide.” After the call, […]
Continue readingMy First Live Interview
I did my first telephone author interview for an article in the February issue of ECHO. Fellow insomniac, Cait Brennan, called me at 10:30 at night to begin the interview. If you’ve never heard of Cait, she’s a rock vocalist, novelist, screenwriter, actress, producer and director with her own Wikipedia page. If you want to […]
Continue readingTaking Risks
Before I sent out my manuscript, I scoured the internet and went to numerous writing seminars and conventions, sucking up information like a Hoover. I learned how to send a query, what an agent wants and doesn’t want, what sells, what stinks, and how to pack a punch in the first paragraph. Armed with all […]
Continue readingIt Doesn’t Seem Right
My novel, Rose’s Will is published for Kindle and I don’t even own one! Isn’t that so wrong? So I’ll be scouring the Internet for Kindle contests. Here’s one from ReadtoReivew. Good luck!
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WIN A FREE COPY OF ROSE’S WILL! Just sign on to Amazon and check my TAG boxes here. For an extra entry, read the prologue here and answer this question: After she called me an idiot, and much worse, quite a few times A. She hung up the phone. B. I took her to lunch. C. She took my […]
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