Imagine waking up on a Monday morning to this little morsel of news! Publisher’s Weekly published a lovely review of my debut novel, A Delicious Dilemma, available 8/24 (paperbacks on shelves 9/1). If you’d like to read the complete review, click the link below: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781335408068 I made a couple of graphics with some of my […]
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Upcoming events to promote my 8/24 release of A Delicious Dilemma. In case you’d like to get to know me or spend time with my incredible hosts: 6/21 – 8:00pm EST Telenovela Talks IG LiveHosted by Adriana Herrera @ladriana_herrera 7/8 – All dayPreorder BlitzMultiple PlatformsHosted by Meet Cute Creative @MeetCuteCreative 7/21 – 7:30 pm EST Inside the
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Today’s Prompt: How do you create your characters? Do you make a profile of them? Do you know your character before you start writing the story? My writing process is a little wild. I usually start with a premise, prompt, trope or idea and almost simultaneously, my characters show up. They are fully formed people,
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Writing Projects Today’s question: Tell us about ideas you have floating around. World building snippets, or ideas for new stories. Just a few bullet points. I have so many ideas! I have notebooks full of ideas to write. In fact, that’s how I keep track of them – I keep a daily journal (almost) and
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Structure Today’s question comes from this tweet: Structure as offense and characterization as defense, or the other way around. Is this something you think about? Do you have other metaphors when you think about your stories and how they work? Being a person who is largely indifferent to teams sports (I prefer individual sports so
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Tropes I’m using today’s question to keep the streak going, courtesy of https://the-wip-project.tumblr.com What is your favorite trope to write and/or read? And is there a difference between reading and writing the trope? It’s ironic that today’s question is about writing tropes because it’s been on my mind a lot lately. Tropes are literary devices
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A Late Start For more about the #100daysofwriting challenge, check out https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/100daysofwriting to see all the posts for each day. Thanks to https://the-wip-project.tumblr.com for organizing this fascinating challenge! If you get stumped on what to write, check the https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/100daysofquestions for prompts to help you write. I’m starting seven days late on this project, according to
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From the publisher: Carlton Monroe is finally getting his groove back. After a year playing dad to his nephew and sending him safely off to college, it’s back to his bachelor ways. But when his teenaged niece shows up on his doorstep looking for a permanent home, his plan comes to a screeching halt. Family
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From the publisher: He lives in secret service to the Crown—a man of duty, deception, and an undeniable attraction to a woman who threatens to tear his whole world apart. They call him the Devil of Dorset. He stands alone, a man of undeniable power. Moving in and out of shadows, back alleys and ballrooms,
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From the publisher: When a man on a mission is derailed by a beautiful woman, will one night ever be enough?Will one night be his undoing? Alessandro Cardenas isn’t stepping out on the Miami art scene only for the hottest parties. Someone is forging his late grandfather’s paintings—and he’s determined to uncover the culprit. But
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