Fiction Scribe

Hello, hello and welcome to another Monday. I hope it’s not one of ‘those’ Mondays for you. It isn’t for me. I woke up ready to work, that’s for sure. I have a lot to do (as always), starting with this week’s list of little reminders.

Remember, some might have the same titles, but the writing underneath might have changed.

The next edition of the Scribes Blog Carnival will go up on November 5th. The deadline to submit is November 1st, and you are limited to two submissions. If you’d like to submit your links or want more information, check out the Scribes Carnival page.

I’m especially looking for thoughts about NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo.

Although I am no longer doing the Scribes newsletter, I still have the previous PDFs. If you are interested in one or more of them, contact me and I’ll send you what you request.

Are you ready for NaNo? Do you have an idea of what you’ll be writing about? Write about it on your blog and submit it to the blog carnival. Also check in here through November for NaNo breaks where you can rant, rave, or simply sit and rock back and forth if you like. I’m here, if you’d like to add me as a friend.

This is my first year participating, and I’m quite confident I’ll be able to do it not only here on Fiction Scribe, but also on Write Anyway and my personal blog. This is my page here.

If you check out the prize page for NaBlo, you might see a familiar name there soon… I’m offering a copy of “No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog”

Remember, you have to be in it to win it!

Like free books? Check in every Friday here at Fiction Scribe and comment on the interviews posted for your chance to win a copy of the book the author is on tour for. You already have a chance at:

Mayra Calvani’s Dark Lullaby
and
L. Diane Wolfe’s Mike - Circle of Friends Book IV

The theme over at Write Anyway is passion! Stop over there for some inspiration.

I haven’t forgotten about the author interviews PDF. I really just need the time to put it all together, edit, format… All that good stuff. If you’re absolutely set on having a copy, feel free to contact me and tell me to get my butt into gear.

My first post is up over at The Book Stacks! We’re having some technical difficulties, so I’m not the post author yet, but it is me. I promise! Head on over and play the ‘A Book by any Other Name’ game.

That’s all for today. Enjoy the last full week of October and have some fun!

I say … and you think … ?

1. Las Vegas ::
2. Linus ::
3. Struck ::
4. Movie ::
5. Anxious ::
6. Bandit ::
7. Picks ::
8. Lasso ::
9. Dinner ::
10. Bargain ::

Courtesy of Luna Nina

Hello once again!

How did last week’s challenge work out for you? Putting in my 200 words a day over the last week, I finally got over 6,000 words in on my current novel in progress. I’m rather proud of myself, even though I’ll probably get rid of half of it in heavy editing.

I’m only too well aware that in two weeks we’ll have already started NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo, both of which I am signed up for. That’s why I am upping the weekly challenge in an effort to get you warmed up for NaNoWriMo. (more…)

I found this meme at Tiny Treasury. Though it’ll be embarrassing to put it up, I will anyway so you can all kick my bum to read some more classics. (Keep in mind, though, that I didn’t exactly have a normal childhood. So there.)

Bold those you’ve read.
Italicize books you have started but couldn’t finish.
Add an asterisk* to those you have read more than once.
Underline those on your To Be Read list.

(They should include an option for “…if you have seen the movie”.)

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights*
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A Novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Anyone who has looked through my entire list is now challenged to put the list up on their blog.

Welcome to another author interview here on Fiction Scribe. Today I’m talking with L. Diane Wolfe, author of the Circle of Friends series. I hope you’ll join me in welcoming her to Fiction Scribe. Remember, by commenting, you have a chance at winning a copy of her book!

Hello and thank you for stopping at Fiction Scribe, Mrs. Wolfe. Tell the readers a bit about yourself.

I’m an optimistic, fiery redhead who does not believe in the word impossible! Online I am known as “Spunk On A Stick�? and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to spread the message of hope found within my series.

Originally a West Coast girl, I grew up in Salem, Oregon and moved across the country several times. I now reside North Carolina with my husband and two cats, Rocko & Spunky. I enjoy sports, take photos professionally, and have a passion for roller coasters.

What brought you into the world of writing? When did you start?

I’ve always been a reader, devouring several books a week. However, the desire to write sparked inside of me when I read Anne McCaffrey’s “The White Dragon�?. I admired the richness of character in her books. Holding that book in my hands, I could picture my own name on the cover. At the age of just thirteen, I set a goal of becoming an author. That was many years ago!

You’re currently on virtual tour for your young adult book Mike: Circle of Friends Book IV. Could you tell us a bit about the series and the latest book? (more…)

Thirteen Random Characters to Spice up Your Story

1. Any Monty Python characters.
2. Talking elephants.
3. Radioactive monkeys.
4. Minjas. (LINK)
5. Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.
6. A religious figure with a rifle.
7. Spaghetti-obsessed aliens.
8. A game show host.
9. A nuclear waste management engineer.
10. Telepathic spiders.
11. A psychic.
12. An over-worked homemaker.
13. An IRS agent.

Hi everyone! You’ll have to forgive the change of schedule today, but I’m quite ill and really can’t do a discussion today. The discussion will continue next week, though, so be sure to be all caught up by then!

We worked out all the technical difficulties from last Friday, and now I am pleased to present to you my interview with the author of the horror novel Dark Lullaby: Mayra Calvani. I hope you’ll join me in welcoming her to Fiction Scribe. Be sure to leave her a comment for a chance to win a copy of her book.

Without further ado…

Hello and thank you for stopping at Fiction Scribe, Mayra. Tell the readers a bit about yourself.

Thanks for having me on your blog! I’m a Puerto Rican author and book reviewer. I enjoy writing in a variety of genres—paranormal, suspense, fantasy, mystery, satire, nonfiction, and also children’s and young adult. I currently have three books out—Embraced by the Shadows (paranormal/vampire), Dark Lullaby (paranormal thriller) and The Magic Violin (children’s picture book) with several more coming out soon in 2007-8.

What brought you into the world of writing? When did you start?

I was an avid reader since I was a little kid and began writing fiction at an early age. I think I was twelve when I started writing complete short stories and novellas. Reading and writing went along together and I always had my head in a book or my hands on a typewriter. The desire to create similar worlds as those I encountered in books, the need to have an outlet for my imagination led me naturally to the world of the written word.

You’re currently on virtual tour for your horror novel Dark Lullaby. Could you tell us a bit about the book? (more…)

Don’t ask about the title. Put it up to the flu now having taken over my brain.

Talk about basics. You’d think the whole ‘s’ versus ‘’s’ would be a natural thing. Well, perhaps not natural, but at least well known. But apparently it’s not, even in the adult world where a coffee shop can’t even have marshmallow spelled correctly on their menu.

(more…)

Ah, there’s nothing like a little pick-me-up when one isn’t feeling well. Romance Writer nominated me as one of the bloggers who make me smile. So very sweet. Thank you for that, Romance Writer.

This award also gives me the chance to nominate five other bloggers who make me smile.

So here goes…

Susan of West of Mars
Mr. Reasons of 101 Reasons to Stop Writing
Randi of Brad Pitt Watch
Elisa of Watching Dr. Who
and
Aurora from Between the Sheets

I apologize for being late with this. I have somehow acquired a strange flu bug and couldn’t think straight enough to put up a post earlier. Today I am thinking clearly but am still spending most of my time in bed.

On to reminders (mostly a repeat of last week’s list, but there are a lot of things I’m happy/excited about plus some updates).

The next edition of the Scribes Blog Carnival will go up on November 5th. The deadline to submit is November 1st, and you are limited to two submissions. If you’d like to submit your links or want more information, check out the Scribes Carnival page.

Although I am no longer doing the Scribes newsletter, I still have the previous PDFs. If you are interested in one or more of them, contact me and I’ll send you what you request.

In a move that makes me wonder if I’m addicted to stress, I’ve joined up at NaNoWriMo. Feel free to add me to your friends list. My page is here.

This is my first year participating, and I’m quite confident I’ll be able to do it not only here on Fiction Scribe, but also on Write Anyway and my personal blog. This is my page here. Add me as a friend if you like. I’ll be offering a prize to participants as soon as I can figure out what the criteria to win the prize is.

Like free books? Check in every Friday here at Fiction Scribe and comment on the interviews posted for your chance to win a copy of the book the author is on tour for.

The theme over at Write Anyway is locations! Stop over there for some inspiration.

I haven’t forgotten about the author interviews PDF. I really just need the time to put it all together, edit, format… All that good stuff. If you’re absolutely set on having a copy, feel free to contact me and tell me to get my butt into gear.

I’ll be removing the book reviews, but they won’t be far away…

My first post is up over at The Book Stacks! We’re having some technical difficulties, so I’m not the post author yet, but it is me. I promise! Head on over and play the ‘A Book by any Other Name’ game.

I say … and you think … ?

1. Illicit ::
2. Go ::
3. Jacket ::
4. Blow ::
5. Coach ::
6. Effort ::
7. Leadership ::
8. Snore ::
9. Fearless ::
10. Network ::

Courtesy of Luna Nina

Hello ladies and gentlemen!

For the past two weeks, you have been able to slack off as you please because I have been away at Conflux (which I have yet to write about. Tsk.). This week we are back in action, back to work, back to the challenge.

The work has been piling up, and now it’s time to get going once again!

This week your challenge is (more…)

Apologies for the lack of an interview right now, readers. Due to a bit of miscommunication and general technology annoyances, I don’t yet have the interview with Mayra to put up yet.

The interview will be up as soon as it can be, though! In the meantime, check out the chilling book trailer for Dark Lullaby…

There are a lot of little reminders to put up today, so please bear with me. This is what happens when I go on vacation.

The next edition of the Scribes Blog Carnival will go up on November 5th. The deadline to submit is November 1st, and you are limited to two submissions. If you’d like to submit your links or want more information, check out the Scribes Carnival page.

Although I am no longer doing the Scribes newsletter, I still have the previous PDFs. If you are interested in one or more of them, contact me and I’ll send you what you request.

I’ve caught up on answering comments from my vacation time. Thanks to everyone who responded to the burned book post.

In a move that makes me wonder if I’m addicted to stress, I’ve joined up at NaNoWriMo. Feel free to add me to your friends list. My page is here.

This is my first year participating, and I’m quite confident I’ll be able to do it not only here on Fiction Scribe, but also on Write Anyway and my personal blog. This is my page here. Add me as a friend if you like. I’ll be offering a prize to participants as soon as I can figure out what the criteria to win the prize is.

Like free books? Check out Virtual Book Tours. The authors on tour are offering free copies of their books to people who comment on their tour stops. I’ll be hosting three of the authors on the rest of the Fridays this month. Stop by for your chance to win!

The theme over at Write Anyway is time. Stop over there for some inspiration.

I haven’t forgotten about the author interviews PDF. I really just need the time to put it all together, edit, format… All that good stuff. If you’re absolutely set on having a copy, feel free to contact me and tell me to get my butt into gear.

I’ll be removing the book reviews, but they won’t be far away…

I was going to wait a while to announce it, but since Elisa has already mentioned it… Next week I’ll be taking over The Book Stacks. The lovely Elisa asked me to take care of the blog she has worked so hard to cultivate and I couldn’t be more honored to do so. I hope you’ll join me over there as I put my hand to more book reviews, being brave enough to post my huge reading list, and other things.

And that’s it for announcements! That wasn’t so bad, was it?

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Thirteen Guilty Writing Pleasures I Have (Had)

1. Writing about people I know and seeing if they figure out which characters they are.
2. Writing notes all over post-it notes and memo pads.
3. Post-it notes.
4. Memo pads.
5. Highlighters.
6. Pens of all types and colors.
7. Eating orange juice and Ritz crackers.
8. Working on stories at my actual job.
9. Writing in all sorts of places including on the train, in the park, and in the middle of stores (when I get ideas).
10. Honey-roasted cashews.
11. Purple fuzzy slippers.
12. Writing in my pajamas.
13. Taking a day just to write.