Getting a book ready to go to market is proving to be really interesting. Darkness Falling is actually the second book I’ve completed writing, but the first I’ve moved forward with publishing. I’d never considered self-or-indie publishing, until I realized how many independent authors I was reading and enjoying, particularly in the romance genre, and almose…
One of my editors challenged my writing group with a “getting to know your characters and their relationship” kind of writing exercise. The instructions were simple: write a brief scene in which your characters have to negotiate and/or compromise to decide on a begetable to cook for dinner. Below is what I came up with….
Although Lex, Mike, Andie and the rest are all my own characters, they were inspired, as a starting point, by some of my favorite characters from TV. So, as a little more insight into their creation, here are those folks! Lex: Mike: Andie: Isaac:
I’m working on putting a full playlist together for Darkness Falling, but until I do, here are a few songs that are absolutely on it : For Lex and Mike. It’s too obvious a choice to leave out: Lex about Andie (which probably dips some into Book 2, too): Mike about Andie:
**Note: I wrote this as I was playing around with snippets to get character voices down and imagining what a Group chat might look like between Lex, Mike and Andie. There’s nowhere in the novel it really fits in, since they didn’t have working cell phones with texting capabilities while deployed, and, yet, the conversation…