Hi everyone! I want to give a big thank you to Book Chick City for having me over today! THE GEEK GIRL AND THE SCANDALOUS EARL is officially one day old, and I couldn’t be prouder! I hope that you guys love Jamie, Micah, and everyone else as much as I do. With that being said, I thought you guys might enjoy finding out a little bit more about the hero and heroine of GGSE. So here they are! First up is Jamie Marten. Jamie’s the kind of girl that…

I first “discovered” the Fangborn when Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner invited to write a short story for Wolfsbane and Mistletoe. A major problem confronted me, as it does every writer of urban fantasy and horror: How do I put my stamp on creatures like werewolves and vampires? I let the process of writing the story guide me. In “The Night Things Changed,” when my private detective character said, “I liked being a cop for the same reason I like being a werewolf,” I learned a lot about him…

“Writer, where do ideas come from?” “The stork (muse) brings them.”  “They’re from out in the cabbage patch.” Seriously, I get asked this question quite a bit, as do other authors.  The answer is a little tricky.  I can’t speak to anyone else’s experience.  But for me? They come from everywhere, and nowhere, and somewhere in between. For me, characters have a life of their own.  They are people.  As such, they have their own unique foiables, strengths, idiosyncrasies.  I do NOT, EVER base a character directly on a living…

Sometimes you have to fiddle around with a book before it starts working, before you find the right approach to the story, the right voice for the narrator. In this instance, it took all of about three sentences. I knew, when I started writing A Natural History of Dragons, that it was going to be a Victorian-style memoir. When I started writing, I immediately discovered the delights of that approach. My protagonist is, especially in this first book, a headstrong and slightly naive young woman — but the woman who…

Bittersweet Seraphim has been released from Hell. The sequel to Crushed Seraphim (book #1 is on sale for .99 cents HERE on Kindle and HERE on Nook and is a Kindle #1 Best Seller in Comic Fiction!), is ready for you. Satan Jack invites you to come…and indulge yourself in his journey to save the angel he loves. After running Hell for over a thousand years one foul-mouthed Seraph has changed his end game. Even if it means destroying the universe, Jack refuses to give up on Emma. He didn’t…

Clark Hays grew up in Montana in the shadow of the Tobacco Root Mountains, moving to cowboy country from Scotland. In addition to his fiction work, he is an ex-cowboy, a published poet and occasional food critic. Recently, he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for short fiction and not so recently for a Rhysling award for poetry. Clark brings a deep knowledge about the modern west, weaponry, country music and existentialism to his writing. Kathleen McFall grew up in the heart of Washington, D.C. She worked as a petroleum…

A Love Letter to a City (with Wizards) by Suzanne Johnson On Sunday, August 28, 2005, I piled in a car with two dogs (one a ninety-pound behemoth), an elderly parent, a friend, and her ailing cat, and left home for a short trip. Two days later, life as I knew it had changed, and my two-day trip turned into eight weeks. I was a New Orleanian, and when I left on August 28, it was a last-minute run from a storm called Hurricane Katrina. You probably know what happened…

Annie Seaton lives on the edge of the south Pacific Ocean on the east coast of Australia. Recently retired from the world of full time work, she is fulfilling her lifelong dream of writing, and had instant success! Her first two books were both published on the same day and Holiday Affair has been on the Amazon bestsellers list for six months!! She writes across genres steampunk, historical, paranormal romance, and romantic suspense but her favorite genre is contemporary romance. She lives with her own hero of many years. Their two children…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rowena Cory Daniells, best selling author of the trilogy King Rolen’s Kin, set out to write the kind of books that you curl up with on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Her new fantasy trilogy, The Outcast Chronicles, has just been released in 2012. Her noir-paranormal-crime The Price of Fame will also be released in 2012. Writing: Part Inspiration, Part Perspiration by Rowena Cory Daniells First comes the love of story. That’s the inspiration part. This is me aged 7 with my black cat, Zorro. When I was a child every Friday afternoon,…

Katie fell in love with romance at a young age thanks to books she pilfered from her mom’s stash. Years later she loves reading romance almost as much as she loves writing it. However, she didn’t always know she wanted to be a writer. After graduating summa cum laude with a degree in psychology and working too many jobs she hated, she finally figured things out. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense. Her publishers include Carina Press, Harlequin Nocturne, Ellora’s Cave and NAL/Signet…

Rebecca Roland lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she writes primarily fantasy and horror. Her short fiction has appeared in Uncle John’s Flush Fiction and in Stupefying Stories, and she is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. When she’s not writing, she’s usually spending time with her family, torturing patients as a physical therapist, or eating way too much chocolate. My Writing Space by Rebecca Roland  I have three places where I do most of my writing, although my home office gets the most use. My office is in…

I’m very excited to be back at Book Chick City today to celebrate the release of West of Want, the second book in my Greek-mythology-inspired Hearts of the Anemoi series. West of Want tells the story of Zephyros Martius, Supreme God of the West Wind and Guardian of Spring, who falls in love with a human woman he nearly kills. To claim his love, Zephyros must battle the vulnerability an immortal lifetime of betrayals has created as well as an ancient feud with an estranged brother determined to make Zephyros…

Nico Rosso was born and raised in a factory town. The major industry: Movies. Growing up with a creative family in Los Angeles, Nico was surrounded by the film business, and after college he returned home to work in that industry. From cleaning up gallons of milk after a special effect to pitching ideas to executives as a screenwriter, Nico was there. But the movies had changed from the glowing pictures that once inspired him. He found there wasn’t as much space for his voice and turned to writing narrative…

Today I’m pleased to welcome Gabi Stevens to the blog. Book Chick City’s, Rebecca, is reading this series as we speak and has enjoyed the first two books The Wish List and As You Wish, and will be reading and reviewing the latest in the series, Wishful Thinking, very soon. Gabi Stevens was born in SoCal to Hungarian parents. After spending time in boarding school, college, and studying abroad, she raised children and then spent seven years in the classroom trying to teach eighth graders the joys of literature. An…

Welcome to THE GATHERING DARK Blog Tour – we are stop 12! To check out who else is on the tour go to this website to see the full list of participating blogs. We’re very excited to welcome Leigh to Book Chick City – Rebecca loved The Gathering Dark and you can read her 5 star review here. Leigh Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Los Angeles, and graduated from Yale University. She indulges her fondness for glamour, ghouls, and costuming in her other life as makeup artist L.B. Benson….