I've think I've found my pace
I've gotten emails from fans saying that they read MLTF in either one sitting or one day. Dang, but you people are fast! It takes me three days to read it and I wrote the thing. ; ) Most of you read it in a few days and said that once you started reading, you couldn't put it down. Thank you!!! That's the ultimate compliment for a writer.
Advance warning: Armed & Magical is an even faster read. The chapters are a little shorter (though there are a few more of them), the action takes off on page two (as those of you who read the first two chapters know), and the pace never slows down from there. Linnea Sinclair (my mentor and "author mom") read A&M for an author blurb (her quote is on the front cover). She said "Fresh, original, and fall-out-of-your-chair funny." Fabulous quote -- thank you, Linnea! I told her it was too bad we couldn't use what she said in her email to me when she'd finished reading it. She said she only stopped reading to sleep and mix another gin & tonic. ; ) Now that's what I call an endorsement!
The thing is, I'm finding out that with The Trouble With Demons, I'm writing the same way as I did with A&M -- snappy & snarky dialogue, non-stop action, and some delectible scenes involving Raine & Tam and Raine & Mychael. But it's also so much fun the way Raine's world is expanding, more characters are being introduced, and I now have so much material to use that the hard part is picking what to include in a particular book. My characters have grown to be like friends. I know them, I'm comfortable with them, and I've found my pace, and gotten in the grove. Jeez, I love being a writer. ; )
For example, yesterday I found out that Raine's Uncle Ryn Benares (Phaelan's pirate dad) has a pet name for Raine -- Spitfire. It's also the name of a particularly ill-tempered breed of small dragon. Raine says that, "Uncle Ryn had always meant it as a compliment, so I 'd taken it the same way." I just love it when little tidbits like that just pop up when I'm writing.
Update on The Trouble With Demons: Last week I wrote Chapter 5 and am about half way through Chapter 6. And a big accomplishment for me -- I got my email under control. I now have an elaborate filing system, and got rid of all the emails I didn't need. BTW -- I keep all of my fan emails. They now have their own folder. When I hit a rough patch of writing, I go in and read some of them. It's the best pick-me-up there is!
Lisa
Advance warning: Armed & Magical is an even faster read. The chapters are a little shorter (though there are a few more of them), the action takes off on page two (as those of you who read the first two chapters know), and the pace never slows down from there. Linnea Sinclair (my mentor and "author mom") read A&M for an author blurb (her quote is on the front cover). She said "Fresh, original, and fall-out-of-your-chair funny." Fabulous quote -- thank you, Linnea! I told her it was too bad we couldn't use what she said in her email to me when she'd finished reading it. She said she only stopped reading to sleep and mix another gin & tonic. ; ) Now that's what I call an endorsement!
The thing is, I'm finding out that with The Trouble With Demons, I'm writing the same way as I did with A&M -- snappy & snarky dialogue, non-stop action, and some delectible scenes involving Raine & Tam and Raine & Mychael. But it's also so much fun the way Raine's world is expanding, more characters are being introduced, and I now have so much material to use that the hard part is picking what to include in a particular book. My characters have grown to be like friends. I know them, I'm comfortable with them, and I've found my pace, and gotten in the grove. Jeez, I love being a writer. ; )
For example, yesterday I found out that Raine's Uncle Ryn Benares (Phaelan's pirate dad) has a pet name for Raine -- Spitfire. It's also the name of a particularly ill-tempered breed of small dragon. Raine says that, "Uncle Ryn had always meant it as a compliment, so I 'd taken it the same way." I just love it when little tidbits like that just pop up when I'm writing.
Update on The Trouble With Demons: Last week I wrote Chapter 5 and am about half way through Chapter 6. And a big accomplishment for me -- I got my email under control. I now have an elaborate filing system, and got rid of all the emails I didn't need. BTW -- I keep all of my fan emails. They now have their own folder. When I hit a rough patch of writing, I go in and read some of them. It's the best pick-me-up there is!
Lisa
posted by Lisa Shearin at
8:27 AM
2 Comments:
Well, I guess you are hearing a lot of this, but you are AMAZING!!! I am another one of those crazy-read-the-whole-book-in-one-sitting type of people. I think that I can say that your writing is by far the most entertaining that I have ever read, and since I finish a new book,like, every day, that is saying A LOT!!! :) Keep on writing...!!!
Kate, your post just put a huge smile on my face. I don't think there's an author on the planet who wouldn't love being described as "AMAZING!!!" What a great way to end my writing night. ; ) (I just finished Chapter 6 and got Chapter 7 mapped out, so I can start it tomorrow.)
Thank you!!
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