Category Archives: Blog
H is for Heroes and Heroines
Today’s letter in the A-Z Challenge is H. The Top Ten Tuesday topic this week from The Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Favorite Books I Read Before I Was A Blogger Since I used to read predominantly fantasy, … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z challenge, fantasy, heroes heroines, lord of the rings, Neil Gaiman, top ten tuesday
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G is for Getting to Know Characters
In keeping with the A-Z Challenge, G is for getting to know characters better. Today I’m pleased to welcome Rachel Kall and her main characters to Off the Page. Alex and Pedro, stars of Rachel’s new book Legally Undercover, kindly answered a few … Continue reading
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Tagged character interview, legally undercover, rachel kall, romantic suspense
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F is for Fear of Rejection
Faar of rejection if something we all live with, but if you want to be a successful author, you have to overcome this fear. After months, even years, of working on a novel, authors then have to show their work … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Queries that Worked
Tagged A-Z challenge, entranced publishing, fear, kara leigh miller, publishing tips, query, rejection, writing tips, YA lit
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E is for Exercise
Today’s letter in the A-Z Challenge is E, E for Exercise! One of the problems with being a writer is the inevitable bum-in-chair syndrome. Hours spent at the computer may result in a hefty word count but can also result … Continue reading
D is for Drown, Krystalyn Drown
In keeping with the A-Z Challenge, today’s letter is D, D for Krystalyn Drown. Today I’m pleased to welcome YA author Krystalyn Drown to Off the Page chatting about her new book Spirit World. Krystalyn spent the past thirteen years working at Walt … Continue reading
C is for Camelot
This week’s Road Trip Wednesday topic is: If you could visit any country with a fictional character as your guide, who would you pick and where would you go? And in keeping with the A-Z Challenge, I’ve chosen to visit … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Z challenge, Camelot, fantasy, Merlin, RTW Wednesday, YA Highway
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B is for Book Crushes
Today’s A-Z April blogging challenge letter is B, which ties in rather nicely with the Top Ten Tuesday theme for today: Top Ten Characters I Would Crush On If I Were Also A Fictional Character
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Tagged A-Z challenge, book boyfriends, book crush, game of thrones, top ten tuesday, YA
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A: April A-Z Challenge
April 1 marks the start of an immense blogging challenge: Blogging from A-Z April. This challenge requires a post every day in April (except on Sundays) with topics according to the letter of the alphabet. The blogs participating are not all about … Continue reading
Queries that Worked No. 01
Today I’m kicking off my brand new blog feature with a query of my own. Just a few reminders about what this feature is about: All these featured queries worked! Meaning they snagged the attention of an agent or editor. … Continue reading
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Tagged agents, Obscura Burning, publishing, queries, query
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Turning Real Life Experience into Fiction
There’s a quote I see time and again in the writing communities: Write what you know. These four words, attributed to Mark Twain, can be interpreted in various ways: Give characters professions you’re familiar with, write female characters if you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged catharsis, South Africa, Write what you know, writing as therapy
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