Book in a Week - Monday

Book in a week?

We'll see. The babes are going to stay with my folks...and I'll be back online when this book is done. Some writers call it going into the cave...I hope there aren't any bats?

Writing Action/Fight Scenes and Writing the Kick Sass Heroine

A Q & A With some of the Hottest Paranormal Authors in the Genre!!
August, the 5th, 6th and 7th in the Diva Classroom! Authors Attending:

Kelley Armstrong
CJ Barry
Sonia Singh
Cathy Clamp & C.T. Adams
Carrie Vaughn
Gena Showalter

Want to know how to write realistic fight and action scenes? Want to know what makes Mia, Eden, Kitty, Maya, Damali, Katie and Tru such KICK SASS heroines? All you have to do is ask. *Note: LA Banks will only be able to attend on Monday, August 7th!

CONTEST JUNKIES!!!

I can't beleive I forgot to post this. Every year Romance Junkies - a website for romance readers - holds a first chapter contest for writers. Each week they put up new entries. First chapters are my favorite to write, so I like to enter this contest to see how I fare against all the other writers out there.

Everything is anonymous, so it's not a polularity contest. Just a fun way to see books in progress. Check it out!

CataNetwork Readers Lounge

Guess what author is talking about what they're reading on the CataNetwork Readers Lounge? That would be me, chatting up fellow MXer Julie Cohen's Delicious.

Little Things

Little things can make a newbie author's day. Like finding your new book is available on pre-order from Amazon. Cooking Up A Storm doesn't have a cover yet...but it has an ISBN!

Avon Romance invites you to express your desires...

Avon books has just launched a new website for fans called FanLit ™. The site features an online-writing contest that allows fans and aspiring romance novelists to participate in the creation of a novella. Initially, visitors to the site will vote on the best story idea, based on several posted there. Contest participants will then write a three-page chapter based on the winning story idea. Visitors to the site will vote for their favorite chapter each week. The contest begins Aug. 23 and goes through Oct. 12.

You don't have to be a writer to join in the fun. Readers are a huge part of the process to select the best entries. The FanLit ™ writing contest will be guest-judged by bestselling Avon authors Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Cathy Maxwell, Teresa Medeiros and Victoria Alexander.Great weekly prizes will be awarded to the winners, including: a complete signed set of participating authors' Avon novels; inclusion in Avon's monthly advance galley mailing list for one year (which means you will get Avon books before they are on store shelves); a framed, limited-edition print of Stephanie Lauren's TO DISTRACTION cover signed by the author and artist; a free, one-year subscription to Romantic Times BOOKreviews magazine, and free registration and hotel accommodations to the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Houston, Texas, April 25-29, 2007.

Other prizes include an exclusive trip to New York to meet with Avon staffers, a Fox Television Studios $5,000 development deal and much more. Go to www.AvonFanLit.com for all the details.