Last week I wrote about giving your heroes flaws. It is absolutely necessary for a hero to have a flaw or two. Villains tend to be more interesting because they are flawed, but you can go too far down the opposite road. One must beware of the villain who is so bad, so competent, so […]
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What About The Villain? (Or, Oh, You Kid!)
August 31, 2007; 2:31 pm
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Freebies
August 30, 2007; 9:55 am
I’m just getting ready to head out the door to go pick up my latest batch of bookmarks for my Paladin series. I know you can order these kinds of things over the internet, but I like the personal service I get a from a local company. I have mine printed in color on one […] -
Winner of UNMASQUED
August 29, 2007; 10:32 pm
Colette Gale has chosen a winner from the comments on Monday. The winner of a signed copy of UNMASQUED is…
DEBORAH
Congrats! Please contact Colette at colette@colettegale.com to claim your prize!
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It all comes down to one simple word.
August 28, 2007; 9:35 pm
Kara Goucher.
What does that name mean to you?
It may not mean much to you *yet* but I can’t think of her without tears coming to my eyes, my throat tightening, and I can barely manage to keep myself from jumping up, doing a major fist pump and yelling, “Yeah!”
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WICKED MAGIC and HUNTING THE DEMON ARE OUT!
August 28, 2007; 1:48 am
And they have some contest giveaways . . . an autographed copy of Cheyenne’s FORBIDDEN MAGIC and an autographed copy of Jaci’s SURVIVING DEMON ISLAND. Everyone who posts goes into a drawing for the two books. Winners will be announced tomorrow!
Jaci Burton and Cheyenne McCray here to tell you how excited we are about […]
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Q&A with UNMASQUED author Colette Gale
August 27, 2007; 9:04 am
The Midnight Hour is very happy to welcome the wickedly wonderful author Colette Gale whose erotic take on the Phantom of the Opera, UNMASQUED, was released at the beginning of this month.
Colette will be randomly choosing one winner for a signed copy of the book from the comments today so comment away!
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Your Hero Needs A Broken Nose
August 24, 2007; 1:08 pm
I’m currently reading a book that is pretty enjoyable. Great concept, tight plotting, not bad writing–a little heavy on the infodump, but what book over eight hundred pages isn’t? Still, I’m having to force myself to read about half of it. Half skims along fine, but the other fifty percent is just an unlivable slog.
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August 23, 2007; 8:10 am
This past week has been an exciting one for two friends of mine—one achieved her first sale and signed with an agent. The second one emailed to say her first book will be published in the next few months. While we were emailing back and forth, she received the news that another publisher was buying […]
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How much action is too much action?
August 21, 2007; 9:01 am
My crit partner, Annie Windsor, and I are self-proclaimed “action junkies.” When we write, we tend to want to start out with action and have lots of it in our books. I find it hard to really slow down, and when I do, I wonder if I’ve slowed down too much.
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Monday Inspiration
August 20, 2007; 11:06 am
We were supposed to have author Colette Gale as our guest blogger today, but I believe she might be on vacation…perhaps in the dark catacombs beneath a certain Paris Opera House with a sexy masqued man. I’m not sure. I will reschedule her to another week!
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The Wilds Of Maine
August 18, 2007; 6:05 pm
Hello Everyone!
Okay, I just so totally disappeared this summer. Not just from The Midnight Hour, but pretty much from everywhere and everyone. Except for from my kid. I did take her along–she’s five, so she gets a little anxious if I vanish on her. :)
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The Right Woman
August 16, 2007; 5:15 am
At a conference recently, I was talking about how I created my Paladins and said that I was very methodical when I set about developing the heroes for the series, but not so much with the heroines. The group I was speaking to seemed a bit surprised by that. But you see, almost every time I start to write […]
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Why We Love Our Alpha Heroes
August 14, 2007; 10:59 pm
I love Alpha males. Just what is it about the Alpha male that makes my knees weak and my heart pound?
I’m talking about the man who exudes confidence, the man who is in control of himself and his environment. The power in his stride, his smooth, fluid movements, the set of his jaw.
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An open love letter to Rachel Caine
August 13, 2007; 12:38 pm
Dear Rachel,
Hi. How are you? This is Michelle Rowen writing to you today, and I’m writing on my blog rather than sending this to you personally for two reasons.
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Gloomy and Grumpy
August 9, 2007; 8:57 am
A lot of things affect my ability to sit down and work—having the right music playing in the background (Cross Canadian Ragweed at the moment), the right time of day (for me, late afternoons to early evening), having a book handy to read for a few minutes at a time when I need to let […]