syn·aes·the·sia – a subjective sensation that occurs in one sense modality when another modality is stimulated…. syn·aes·thet'ic – involving more than one sense
Well we had the official welcome, and then they announced the new first time published authors. There were 31 one of them this year which is awesome – one is my buddy Peta Crake who I met last year. Her debut novel Harbinger was announced as part of the Penguin Destiny Romance line on Thursday […]
I’ll put the rest of the Screenwriting Tips for Authors up another time. I was at the Harlequin cocktail party and then out at dinner with friends, and it is now late. Had a great day. Here is my timetable for tomorrow 8.30am – Welcome, First Sales and Little Gems Anthology Launch 8.50am – Keynote […]
Three act structure used in movies and books comes from plays has been used for more than 2,000 years also used in novels adapted for movies As authors, or playwrights or screenwriters, we need to follow this structure because readers – our audience – expects it. We deviate from it at our peril. Part of […]
The presenter of the Screenwriting Tricks for Authors Workshop, Alexandra Sokoloff, sent attendees an email last week asking us to prepare some homework prior to the workshop. The questions were as follows: 1. What genre are you writing in? Giving this is a romance convention, what subgenre are you writing in? 2. Make a list […]
Oh yeah the Penguin special event. This was a bit of a mystery, we weren’t sure what kind of event this was. Well, in a very interesting development, Penguin announced it’s new digital imprint, Destiny Romance. It is going to have a strong Australian author focus apparently – there are 5 Australian authors in the […]
Finished packing last night (this morning) at about 1am, and had to be up at 6 so didn’t get a lot of sleep. Left home at 6.30am to get to the airport in time for my check in and 9am flight. Thought that I would have room in my bags for all the books and […]
I have been reading a few craft books on writing lately. I have had the Characters and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card for a while, and can really recommend this. Published by the Writers Digest, it is one of a series of books on the art of writing called Elements of Writing Fiction, and it […]
Next was actually the Panel session: the Next 20 Years, which I posted at the time. And finally there was the last Plenary by Jane Porter. This was fun, and at times quite moving. Jane read excerpts of the rejection letters she got for 14 books over a 17 year period. During this time there […]
Marion Lennox, a former university academic, and writer of more than 90 published romances, gave a very entertaining talk on what she has learned as a writer. – sex is fun – snakes don’t necessarily replace underpants (that was an editor’s suggestion in one of her early novels!) – your editor is not your friend […]
I did switch to this session by Bob Mayer after all, and I’m glad I did as it was very informative, even if I don’t have anything ready to publish right now. At least it has made me more aware of what options are available. There is a lot of information here under the cut, […]