Posts Tagged ‘book’
Are you imaginative?
I get ideas from what I read in the news. Here’s a perfect example. I logged on this morning to catch the headlines at cnn.com and saw this one, “How ‘GOT’ will end,” and immediately clicked through. GOT is Game of Thrones, and I’m addicted to it. This Sunday is the Season 3 finale, but…
Read MoreMy favorite character in SWEET SALT AIR
Do I play favorites when it comes to my characters? That depends on how you define playing favorites. For starters, I couldn’t spend a year writing a book about people I didn’t like. That said, if each of them is totally loveable, the book is boring. Also, I like to see growth in my characters, which…
Read MoreWhere SWEET SALT AIR came from
Most of my books are inspired by things I read about in the newspaper. The inspiration for Sweet Salt Air was much more personal. I have three sons, all of whom have recently had children, and when each of those babies was born, its umbilical cord blood was harvested, frozen, and stored. The premise is…
Read MoreHow much of me is in SWEET SALT AIR
June 18. What seemed like a long way off a year ago is coming fast. You all have been so patient. I thank you for that. I just reread Sweet Salt Air. I mean, wow, I’ve been distracted from it. I’ve probably read twenty books since I finished writing it, and now I’m working on my next book,…
Read MoreTo e-read or not
A totally funny thing happened to me yesterday. I was reading an actual, physical book, reached the end of a page, and tapped the right margin to turn to the next. Have you ever done this? It wouldn’t happen, of course, if I read books in only one form. But I’m constantly switching between hardcover,…
Read MoreTwo more book recommendations
What kinds of books do you like? Do you switch between genres or stick to one? Me, I usually avoid non-fiction. Since I read the newspaper daily, I don’t want more of the same in my free time. Likewise blood and gore; the real world has plenty. No, fiction is definitely my thing, but, within…
Read MoreNaming the characters in my next book
You’ve heard of Dennis Lehane, right? Since he’s a home town boy, my local press is all over him. So I wasn’t surprised to hear tv reports that his dog, Tessa (yup, that’s her pictured above), had disappeared on Christmas Eve and that he was offering to name a character in his next book after…
Read MoreWhy I’m not a book reviewer
I’m going to be very careful here not to slam those who do review books. I admire many of them. They read constantly and have a wide enough repertoire to give them a grand perspective on books. But the contents of a book review is about more than reading. It’s about the reviewer’s personal history…
Read MoreLOW PRESSURE: a book recommendation
Sandra Brown and I go way back. We started in the field of romance together, actually met at the first ever Romance Writers of America conference. We raised our kids, saw them marry and have their own kids at roughly the same time. Both straying from the romance genre, I entered the field of women’s…
Read MoreDealing with the loss of my characters
Readers feel this. You’ve been engrossed in a book for however long it takes to read it and then, suddenly, the characters are gone. You write me asking what they’ll do now and whether they’ll ever be back. But if you miss them, think of what I’m feeling when I finish writing a book. Take Sweet…
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