Happy Monday, Everyone!
Welcome to My Writing Process Blog Tour! First of all, let me thank the
wonderful, amazing author, Coco Rousseau for inviting me to be a guest blogger
on The Writing Process Blog Tour. Coco is one of my amazing Crimson Romance
sisters. Her first release was an
adaptation of E.M. Forster’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW, which launched September 30,
2013. She then did the most incredible thing and release back to back this
month a two volumes series of Edith Wharton’s THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. You can
read all about her fantastic writing process here:
MY WRITING PROCESS
What am I
working on?
The last several months have been
very exciting, nail biting, stress-filled months, and I’m living on cloud nine,
wearing the silliest of grin imaginable. A year ago at this time, I just sent
off a query letter for the first book in the series, IN THE SHADOW OF GREED and
was waiting very impatiently for that ding on my laptop notifying me that
another publisher decided to pass on my story. Well, that email never arrived.
Instead, I received my first offer from my wonderful publisher, Crimson Romance.
My debut novel, IN THE SHADOW OF GREED
was released at the end of April, 2013 and the second book in the series, IN
THE SHADOW OF EVIL was released just four months later in August 2013. Crimson
Romance then signed me to a three book contract for the last three books in the
series that will all be released in 2014.
Right now, I’m getting very
excited about the release of my third book in my Shadow Series, IN THE SHADOW
OF MALICE which comes out in only sixteen days!!!! [OH, if you want to see a peek at this story, please check out my previous post.] I’m busily working on the
fourth book, In the Shadow of Pride which will be released July 10th. I still feel so green behind the ears and
have so much to learn, but I just love the writing that it doesn’t feel like
work. How does my work
differ from others of its genre?
My work differs than others in its
genre because I don’t just write romantic suspense. Some readers refer to my books
as paranormal, but that’s not right either. I write a very suspenseful story
that at its core is a wonderful love story. Intertwined into this story, is
a very unusual supernatural element. This supernatural element has an profound affect on
the hero and the heroine but it’s not part of who they are. What I mean is that
the supernatural element doesn’t give my hero and heroine some kind of great
power they can use to defeat the villain. On the contrary, the hero and heroine
are so mystified by the element that it changes how they view the world and
their place in it.
Why do I write
what I do?
I write romantic suspense because
I love reading romantic suspense. I love the ride, the thrill the author drags
me through. As an author, I’m not terribly nice to my poor, wonderful
characters, but they always get their wonderful happy-ever-after in the end.
How does your
writing process work?
My writing process changes with
each new project. I only began writing about four years ago when my youngest
daughter started applying to colleges. I spent the last twenty-five years being
a stay-at-home mom. When my world finally grew quiet, the stories that had
lived in my head for years wanted to be heard. My beginning writing process was
what I call by-the-seat-of-my-pants writing. I just wrote down the story as it
came to me, allowing it to pretty much write itself. Well, that process has
changed some over the last four years, especially after I went through my first
developmental editing process. Boy, was that an eye-opener. Now, I actually write down a basic outline the story from beginning to end. I do allow the story to still take
me where it magically wants to go, but I know the basic beginning, middle and
end path before I write that first sentence.
COMING UP NEXT WEEK:MARCH 3 2014
Jo Grafford
All the places you can find Jo
Grafford:
Let’s get to know Jo Grafford:
Jo is mega reader of all genres and an award-winning author
at Astraea Press who loves to indulge in marathon showings of CSI, NCIS, and
Castle. From St. Louis, Missouri, she holds an M.B.A. and has served as a
banker, college finance instructor, and high school business teacher. She is a
PRO member of Romance Writers of America and From the Heart Romance Writers RWA
Chapter. The mother of three children
and the wife of a soldier, she serves as a literacy volunteer for elementary
school students.
As always, thank you for stopping
by for a visit. I hope you have a wonderful week. The best way to thank an
author is to write a positive review.
((HUGS TO ALL))
Nancy C. Weeks
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