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Talking To Your Characters
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Marta Stephens Jun. 16, 2007.
What has being a writer taught you about yourself?
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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Christian Fiction Author
- Do You Have A Website?
- http://www.jackimcguyer.com
- About Me:
- Published (First Novel) Blood Secrets-Christian/Paranormal-January 2007 Wings-Press. Best Seller January 2007.
Honorable Mention-Writer's In the Spirit Contest – His Pure White Light
Honorable Mention-Colorado Gold Contest – In the Shadow of the Valley
While raising four children Jacqueline McGuyer got her degree in accounting in Houston Texas. As an accountant, she worked in the oil industry and the hospitality industry. When she got tired of counting beans, she and her husband transferred to Vail, Colorado where she managed a resort hotel for ten years. The Rocky Mountains were the inspiration for her first novel, Blood Secrets, published January 2007.
You'll most likely find Jacqueline McGuyer rooting around garage sales, reading and collecting old books, working in her yard or barbequing with her family--mostly writing. "I wish I had a mind like Stephen Kings, or Randy Ingermanson" she says, "They are totally unbound."
She and her family recently purchased an old abandoned gas station in Kerrville, Texas and converted it into a coffeehouse. "From the moment we opened the doors, I knew God sent angels to watch over all who came there. Souls were saved at that coffeehouse…mine included." The essence of that coffeehouse is woven through the story of The Java Pump.
With every book she writes, it is Jacqueline's ambition to grow and be faithful to her readers. She aspires to give them an entertaining story to dazzle and provide honest and thoughtful information to keep them coming back for more. Above all, she is a Christian and her faith guides her pen. Jacqueline now makes her home in Texas with her husband, Pat.
- Favorite Books:
- To the shock and dismay of my Christian friends, I read EVERYTHING. I love Steven King and Randy Alcorn equally. I do, however skip over sexually explicit content, Ha, I find it boring.
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is one of my all-time favorites as well as anything by Taylor Coldwell or Ayn Rand.
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- I sometimes buy a book on Amazon, my book, Blood Secrets, is there. However, I can go there, shop around and click off anytime I want without buying a book. However, when I walk into a brick and mortar bookstore, I'm hooked. There's no way I can leave without a book in hand. The smell of the pages--the feel of it in my hand. Cyberspace will never take it's place.
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The Sub-Genre Dilemma
How many times have I received a rejection letter with a little note written at the top or bottom reading, "Not for us"? Too many to count.
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Posted on June 12, 2007 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment
Style VS Emotion
How vain it is to sit down to write, when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau,
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FIRSTS
I suppose there always has to be a first for everything. We don't remember most of the firsts in our lives--our first steps, our first tooth--our first smile. Our mothers have those locked away in their hearts. I don't even remember my first day at school. I have a hard time remembering a lot of my early childhood. However, I do remember my first dance.
… ContinuePosted on June 8, 2007 at 2:56pm — 3 Comments
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Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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What an impressive past and what a bright future. Great to connect with you. In Germany we say: man lernt nie aus. One never ceases to learn. Thanks for sharing.
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Satis
Just returned from my daughter's wedding in Laguna Hills, CA where the weather was delightful and the wedding....oh, soo perfect! I need to blog about it today on http://www.yagotmestarted.blogspot.com/
one of my many blogs. It occurred to me just now that maybe I should have a blog for good happenings, as well as the rants -- how many times do we get detoured by complaining about the "bad" things in our lives and forget the good? And who's to say they are good or bad? It's our reactions to the situations that make it so....
Okay, no more philosophical comments. At least right here.
Marilyn Morris
Promotion is tough. I still have a stack of copies of Scratch--out! my thriller about a junk mail attack on the United States. I guess it's too realistic. People want feel good fiction.
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