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- Do You Have A Website?
- http://blueridgewriter.blogspot.com
- About Me:
- I'm an author who writes paranormal suspense books with a bit of romance. I'm working on my 5th novel right now. Number four is making the round of the agents.
My day job is running a B&B in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I make a mean muffin!
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://blueridgewriter.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- Northanger Abbey
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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We do seem to write a lot of the same stuff. Good for us.
Bess McBride
I've been seeing Nor Cal bumper stickers on trucks and Hondas everywhere. I guess they're trying to let tourists know that this area is quite different from LA, lol.
Gate Walker sounds very intriguing. I'm sure it will find a home. I think the paranormals that stray away from the werewolf/vampire angle are what's hot right now...or, at least, on the way up.
The other is called Gate Walker, an 18 year-old gal, who in reality is the daughter of the God Janus. She ends up with some extraordinary time-travel skills, and blunders into all sorts of mischief and mayhem.
My agent has my newest book in full read on the desks of the editors at Bantam, Luna, Avon, Warner, and St. Martins.
Yes, something has to break for us in 2008!
Chris
Welcome to Book Place.
I hope you have a wonderful time here & be sure to tell all your friends!
Morgan Mandel
Good luck to both of us. I do think we're in the perfect genre for a hit. Although paranormal romance might edge us out a bit, I'm still hopeful.
My latest one is a werewolf created from a DNA cloning experiment gone wrong. St. Martins assigned my agent to find somebody to write such a book. I'm hoping they jump on it.
Chris