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| Friday, February 13, 2009 |
| Romance, Erotic, or Christian... |
Valentine’s Day is supposed to be for couples, but if you are a writer – why not give yourself a gift or ask your significant other to buy that in lieu of chocolates. Guaranteed these books will not add to your waist line. They just might give you some new ideas, for both writing and personal use. {grin} Below you will find some from my arsenal. I have shelves and shelves of how to books.
I was perusing my writing romance books for a writer’s group I founded and host once a month in my home. These writers are in various stages of discovering they want to write. Some haven’t decided what genre yet, some write sermons, or lesson plans and want to do more. Some are into genealogy and creative non-fiction, yet there are those who want to write mystery, suspense, plays, screen plays, Young Adult, Thriller and yes even romance. While most of these books would be appropriate for all of them. I think I would have to keep those below that deal with the erotic to myself. They are all full of good methods for writing however – so don’t shy away from a how to book just because it isn’t your genre.
I have found I learn from every manual I read.
How to Write Romance for the New Markets, by Kathryn Falk
Writing the Christian Romance by Gail Gaymer Martin
Writing Romances, A Handbook by the Romance Writers of America, Edited by Rita Gallagher, and Rita Clay Estrada
Writing a romance novel for Dummies by Leslie Wainger
The Easy Way to Write Romance, by Rob Parnell
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to: Getting Your Romance Published, by Julie Beard
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Erotic Romance, by Alison Kent
Secret Sexual Positions, Ancient Techniques for Modern Lover’s by Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph D
Extraordinary Sex Now, by Dr. Sandra R Scantling
The Bald-Headed Hermit and the Artichoke, an Erotic Thesaurus. By A.D. Peterkin. “Entertaining and very funny,” says Hustler Magazine.
Just so you know A. D. Peterkin is a Toronto psychiatrist and journalist. Kind of makes you wonder what beat he covers.
But if you are bored with the trite and over-used check this book out.
http://www.cricket-sawyer.comLabels: Cricket Sawyer, erotic romance, Inferno, reference books, Romantic Suspense, Valentine's Day |
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| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
| Irish Whiskey -- Coming Soon |
Yippeee -- it will be in time for St. Patrick's Day. I just got my first edits back for Irish Whiskey - due out early March - March 5 to be exact. We have a rock star -- we have two very defective twins bent on having him for their very own -- we have a heroine with a very different idea about that...when they are away on a much needed R&R weekend - the twins show up with much evil on their minds. Be sure to check out what happens in this unfolding drama - Romantic Suspense will never be the same.
www.cricket-sawyer.com
www.cricketsawyerinfo.com
Any questions, want more info - want to know about the contest? send me an email at cricket at cricket-sawyer dot com - I'd love to hear from you.Labels: Cricket Sawyer, Irish Whiskey, March 5 release, questions welcome, Romantic Suspense |
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| Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| Excitement is to put it mildly |
Getting a contract from Forbidden is like dessert before the meal - Inferno, by Cricket Sawyer will be my first novel with Forbidden, but I certainly hope not my last. With the scorching weather in the midwest and wild fires raging in California - it seems a perfect time for Inferno to hit the air waves.
Arson, greed, jealousy, revenge are just a few of the blazes that are cooking high in the LaPlata Mountains of the four corners area of Colorado. An LP Gas blaze, a victim whose bloody footprints mark her trek through the snow-- Smokey Hamilton isn't sure just what he'll find as the first fire fighter on the scene -- the reader soon realizes it's not just a fire, and not to think, merely because the blaze is extinguished is no reason to believe the smoldering wild fire at Thunder Ridge Mobile Home Park is controlled. Irony = things aren't always what they seem at first glance and that proves to be fact not only at Thunder Ridge but in Summerville, Colorado as well.
Can't wait to be able to post an excerpt for you.
Thanks Rene for the invitation!
Cricket SawyerLabels: Colorado, Cricket Sawyer, Forbidden Publications, Inferno, LaPlata Mountians, Romantic Suspense, Wild Fire |
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