Cover reveal: Return to Desiree Bay
Soon I’ll have something to show for the years I rattled on about writing a novel, and the years that followed the completion of the first draft where I went on and on about, one day, becoming a published author. It was a distant horizon, and it still feels that way today, less than a…
Writing in close third person
I wrote a 100,000-word novel Return to Desiree Bay in (what I hope is) close third person, all of it from my main character’s point of view. So, what the reader gets is Skye Summerhayes’ perception of the world and the people in it. The reader also, hopefully, gets to experience Skye’s inner-world and understands…
Finding a critique partner
I’m starting this post with a story that shows how important it is to find critique partners who are on the same journey and know how to offer balanced feedback. Several years ago, I made a big mistake. I showed a friend the first 10,000 words of one of my novels. It was a first…