We at The Midnight Hour are excited to welcome Bonnie Edwards as our guest blogger today! She will be giving away an autographed copy of MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS to one lucky reader! And don’t forget our very own Stephanie Rowe has a title contest runing right now. Check out her blog from yesterday for the details. […]
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Ghosties, Ghosties . . .all the little ghosties
May 31, 2007; 8:36 am
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Title Help Needed–Prizes Awarded!
May 30, 2007; 5:25 pm
Okay, so I need your help! We are deep in title hell for my new trilogy that’s coming out next summer (6/08, 8/08 & 10/08). So, since all you blog readers are so very brilliant, I’m going to run a little contest on The Midnight Hour. Anyone who submits an idea in the comments will […]
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Lifting your face to the sun
May 30, 2007; 4:41 pm
Okay, so I saw the new Pirates of the Carribean on Monday and I was going to blog about that… but I’ve changed my mind.
I’m a bit of a workaholic. Even when I’m not working, I’m stressing about all the things I should be doing. If I’m writing, I’m thinking about the dirty laundry or […] -
Leaving for Boston
May 29, 2007; 9:56 am
While Michelle goes to NYC Wed., I’m headed off for Boston on Thurs. :-) I need this vacation sooooooooooooo bad, and it’s in the middle of a time with soooooooooooooo much going on. But I need this and I’m going to enjoy the hell out of it.
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The Big Apple
May 28, 2007; 11:30 am
I am preparing for my very first visit to New York City this Wednesday. This has been a trip that has been in the prep stages for a couple of years. I can’t wait!
It happens to coincide with BEA (Book Expo America) but that’s not the reason I’m going…in fact it was a total coincidence […] -
The World According to…
May 27, 2007; 4:43 pm
(Fill in the blank. I know you can.)
I was thinking about titles today. And the fact that there are so many titles out there that we just know. Maybe we never even read the book, but we immediately recognize the name. And I also started to think about the romance industry titles–and that so, so often […] -
Be Cruel To Be Kind
May 25, 2007; 1:55 pm
Psst. Hey.
Yeah, you.
Want to know a secret?
Sure you do. Well, I’ll tell you one. C’mere so I can whisper.
Okay, here goes. Be cruel to your characters. Be capricious and dispense pain. Make them suffer.
It’s all in service to the story.
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Spinning My Wheels
May 24, 2007; 8:33 am
This has been one of those weeks . . . well, one of those months, actually. My house was broken into a few weeks ago, so we’ve had to replace the items that were stolen. The hardest was my laptop—learning Vista and a new version of Word has been a challenge, but I’m making progress.
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“I’m supposed to remember what size your penis was nine years go?”
May 23, 2007; 8:39 am
Last night, I was at dinner at a restaurant, and the couple at the next table was having a heated discussion that was going on and on and on. They were approximately in their late-forties and were wearing wedding rings. After a while, I became curious as to what they were discussing, and I sort of […]
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Brenda Novak’s Auction for Diabetes and News
May 22, 2007; 3:00 am
Hi, everyone!
I posted this on my own blog, but I feel it’s important enough to repeat and to share with more readers and writers.
Brenda’s annual auction for diabetes is going on now through I believe May 31st. If you haven’t had a chance to stop by, please do. It’s for such a worthy cause. There […] -
The starting line
May 21, 2007; 11:11 am
Probably my favorite part of the process of writing is the pre-writing. That’s when you gather your characters, figure out what makes them tick, figure out what they’re going to do. You do a little research. At that point maybe you’ll write the first three chapters and do an outline to make up the proposal. […]
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If Nick Lachey says it’s true, then it must be…
May 19, 2007; 12:46 pm
Someone recently pointed me to this link, and I thought it was important enough to share, especially given all the buzz recently about the download of books off the internet in violation of copyright. This is a very cool video that helps to explain the impact of these kinds of activities on not just the […]
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Dear Internet Gods: Stop Messing With Me
May 18, 2007; 1:20 pm
Dear Internet Gods,
I know you think it’s funny to make my wireless router stop working FOR NO REASON. I know it’s hilarious to watch me try to fix it, call my ISP and make sure there’s nothing wrong with the system, and finally narrow down that I need to reboot the frocking router. It’s a […] -
The Need to Read
May 17, 2007; 7:40 am
I have a small confession to make, one that will likely not shock any of you. I’m a binge reader. Now, I almost always have a book within easy reach, and I’ve been that way since I first learned to read. But sometimes the mood hits, and it becomes more of a compulsion that just […]
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Giving Yourself Permission to Just Walk Away
May 15, 2007; 10:05 pm
Okay, so you may have noticed that I missed my blog day last week. I think that’s the first time ever! I would love to say that I was being feted at a grand celebration honoring women with the greatest legs in America, but sadly, that was not the case. I wasn’t even at a […]