Talking loglines

I’m guest blogging over at Magical Musings today talking loglines. Stop by and say hi.

Cindy

You know the old saying

Don’t judge a book by its cover. Clichéd, yes, but so true. Now that my Daphne books are here I finally had a chance to start reading them last weekend. I can’t tell you what category I’m judging or what books. But I can tell you that the first one I read I thought was going to be - let’s be nice here - not that great. And I thought that because of the cover. I saw the cover and cringed. Yes, actually cringed. I thought about reading it last. Don’t you always leave the hardest task until the end? But it was a relatively short book so I decided to try it first. Guess what? Read it in one day! Yep, one day. Not even a full day since I woke up late (some time after noon). What can I say? I needed to catch up on sleep apparently.

So, does this mean we shouldn’t judge a movie by its trailer? That would be a big fat yes. How many times have you seen an awesome trailer, gone to see the movie and felt cheated? Too many times to count for me. There are still movies I’m bitter about wasting hours of my life I’ll never get back. Insomnia and 30 Days of Night, for example. But I will keep going to movies with amazing trailers because every once in a while the movie is actually better than the trailer. I’m hoping that will be the case for a few movies coming up that I can’t wait to see. Star Trek, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

And here’s another old saying. Thank God it’s Friday. Man did it take forever getting here. No movies for me this weekend though. Have to finish those Daphne books.

Until next time…

Cindy

Rejected

I’ve been a very bad blogger. I haven’t been around much lately. I’ve been pouting. Wallowing. The usual stuff you do when you get a rejection on a complete. On the plus side the editor at Harlequin gave me a very detailed rejection letter about what they liked and didn’t like. At least I know I have the right amount of sensuality for a Blaze. So I’ll be able to do that in another book. And knowing what was wrong with this book will (hopefully) mean that I don’t do those things in the next one.

Right now though I think I’m going stay away from the straight romance novels and work on the mainstream. There’s absolutely no romance in Simon Says. But as an author at our March TRW meeting pointed out, that doesn’t mean there’s no emotion. So I have to go back and put in more of that.

Right now it’s late so I’m going to bed.

Happy blogging!

‘Tis the Season

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I’ve been slacking in the blogging department lately. But in the new year I should be posting more regularly.

I hope everyone got what they wanted and spent the holiday with friends and family.

May the New Year bring joy and publishing contracts.

I’m official!

I finally have a website! Now that I don’t have to do the fussing over it maybe I’ll actually get some writing done. I love how it turned out. Way better than anything I could have come up with. Now that I have an official home, I plan to blog more regularly. For now, I’ll post this and try to write for a bit before bed. But I’ll be back…

Happy blogging!