As part of their celebration of Fantasy Romance this month, I was asked to write a guest post for the Book pushers.
Come and tell me about your favourite fantasy romances and why you love them.
I’m delighted to have my good friend and critique partner David to blog here today. David’s “Beauty and the Bastard” has just released from Liquid Silver and its about angels. And so is his post.
So, without further delay…
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When Angels Visit
Thank you for inviting me, Ruth. I’m thrilled to be here sharing my happiness upon the release of Beauty and the Bastard.
I believe in angels.
There: have an Abba earworm. J You’re welcome.
Beauty and the Bastard is my first story involving angels and demons, and I’m working on a second one now. But even though I only started writing about these beautiful beings last summer, they’ve been around in my life for years. Read more…
Thanks to Wyvernfriend for the tip off we went into Dublin today and found…
*drumroll*
a copy of The Scroll Thief in Waterstones!
Soooooooo exciting as it’s the first time I’ve seen it in the wild! Great was the squeeing (from me and from the family). We talked to the staff, and signed the book. And jumped up and down some more.
In other news, I’m guestblogging today at the Mad Genius Club on Myths – Old and New. Please stop by and make me look popular!!!
And just a mini reminder… Soul Fire comes out in print on Tuesday. Yay!
As part of her ongoing Job Description series, Bria Quinlan asked me to write my job description, as a writer.
I decided I am a Multitasking Menace.
Why not head over and see what you think?
Thanks to the recent Steampunk Workshop on Romance Divas (which was brilliant btw) I managed to blackmail persuade the fantastic Sarah A. Hoyt to write a guestblog for me. We also discovered that we share a brain have a lot of similar interests – Robin Hood, Musketeers, Swashing and Buckling, Brave New Worlds – preferably those we create ourselves.
With Shovel and PailSarah A. Hoyt
I’ve been building worlds as long as I can remember. I started with legos, paper and glue, and – at the beach – shovel and pail. I built houses and cities inhabited by tiny, plastic dog figurines, I built huge sand castle complexes and filled them with imaginary princesses and knights.
It is not that the real world wasn’t good enough, but that it often wasn’t INTERESTING enough. I wanted people doing heroic or silly stuff and, from a very early age, I found the need for a world that my characters should inhabit.
The details of these worlds, particularly as I moved from stories in my head to stories on paper, were harder to establish.
For instance, while I was making stories for myself and enacting them with various materials, no one much cared if I were building elaborate cities to be inhabited by dogs who, lacking opposable thumbs, couldn’t possibly have built them. Turns out readers care more about this than my young self did – who knew?
So I started the long and stumbling road of world building. I never had such bad judgment as to assume that my world didn’t need to be internally consistent, or that I could wave a magic wand and change everything halfway through and no one would mind. No, I always knew the first commandment of world building:
Hope you all enjoyed “Old Friends” and meeting Tyria.
Speaking of kick-ass female characters in fantasy, I wrote a guestblog. It went up while I was away, but come and talk Our Heroes and Self Rescuing Princesses at Paranormal Romantics!
I may be in trouble – Writer & Cat: Meankitty wants to know…
(excuse his baldy bits – he was very ill. Now he is all better.)
I’m guestblogging over at Killer Fiction about Folklore and using it in fiction. Come over and have a look, (and leave some comments pleeeease!)
Its a gorgoeus day today so we’re going to head off to the Gardens of Kilruddery House to look for some fairies. 
I’m guest blogging today at Danielle Devon’s site “Minding the Muse” on the subject of Fantasy Romance, what it means to me and how I got around to writing it.
Come by and comment.
I had a lovely comment waiting for me this morning (it’s under my first ever post here):
Hi,
A review for The Wolf’s Sister is now online at PNR Reviews:
http://www.paranormalromance.org/reviews/review.php?id=29810
Take care,
Dee Gentle
PNR Reviews & Features Editor
Paraphernalia
and its a nice review too… “a wonderful start to the series”
Also up to day is the almost infamous “ghost post” at Texty Ladies. I mentioned in my interview with Jane about various ghost sightings and she asked for more information. She opened the call last week to Texty Ladies readers and the result is up today. It makes for some interesting and spooky reading!
A few more edits for The Scroll Thief are underway, and I’ve seen the design for the cover. It’s gorgeous… no.. it’s GORGEOUS!
