Lucienne is a good friend of both Nissa and Detren, and one of the main side characters of The Shadow Raven. She’s also one of my personal favorites in the trilogy. She’s able to keep a level head even when Detren and Nissa are both declining, and help them through it, and I suppose she’s sort of a wise mentor character. I hope you enjoy her interview. :) Continue reading “Character Interview: Lucienne Crain”
How to Write Healthy Romance (and Why We Need To)
Romance is a large feature in the majority of books (at least above middle-grade level). It’s nearly impossible to find a book without at least one romance in it, and almost as hard to find a book with a good romance in it. The romances found in most books today are shallow, based almost entirely on physical attraction, and often have little basis in a prior platonic relationship. This is not a good kind of relationship to be praising and providing examples of. Real relationships require much more than physical attraction to survive, and relationships based only Continue reading “How to Write Healthy Romance (and Why We Need To)”
Farewell to February
February’s Failed Goals
Let’s get the bad out of the way up front. I intended this month to publish both This Is His Story and The Mirror-Hunter Chronicles. Obviously neither happened, one of which wasn’t really my fault, and I’m sorry. I still intend to publish The Mirror-Hunter Chronicles, but I have to, um, finish them first. I’m working on story 4/6, but it’s going a little bit slowly. After #3 I didn’t have a whole lot of concrete ideas, so now it’s a lot more making it up as I go, which is fun but a little slower. (I’ve definitely fallen out of my place in the pantser camp that I so adamantly remained in until last year.)
In smaller goals, I also Continue reading “Farewell to February”
How To Avoid the Dreaded Info-Dump
Everyone hates an info-dump, right? We don’t want to know all of the characters’ motives right from the get-go, and we don’t Continue reading “How To Avoid the Dreaded Info-Dump”
Character Interview: Thorian Sedona
Thorian is a character from The Shadow Raven, a member of the Roenoran council and a friend of Nissa‘s and Detren‘s. He’s also kind of a flirt and may or may not have something of a shady backstory. Continue reading “Character Interview: Thorian Sedona”