Some Thoughts About Writing
- I hate not knowing who the main characters are and where they’re headed, early in a story. If I read more than a third of a book and still don’t have the players firmly in mind, I’m more than annoyed. I may even close my eyes and pretend the book’s not there.
- I love adverbs, just not in novels. Oh, once in a while, but when I’m overwhelmed with the “he looked at her longingly/adoringly/angrily” I go a little mad. Write me something steamy instead. “He looked at her and longed to rip off that cashmere.” Now that’s more like it.
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Hats Off Corner Welcomes Susan McCarthy
I loved reading Circling the Sun and The Aviator’s Wife, so when BantamDell asked me to host this author with such a high recommendation from those other authors, I said, “Yes.”
Hope you’ll enter to win a copy of this book. I am!
If you loved Circling the Sun by Paula McLain, then I have a treat for you! Susan McCarthy, author of the award-winning Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands, is back with a new historical novel, A PLACE WE KNEW WELL, set against the backdrop of Cold War panic.
For the Avery family, the dark days of the Cuban Missile Crisis mark a turning point in their lives which will shape and forever change them. McCarthy captures pitch-perfectly the panic, tension, insanity and innocence of the time. The Avery family forms the emotional center of the novel, as their world starts to unravel during the heart-stopping buildup to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Great Time Lock Disaster has been entered in the Cover Wars Contest over at Masquerade Crew this month. If you like the cover, it would be great to have your VOTE. There are others there as well that are very exciting.
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Quote of the Week: “The reader is the writer’s only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless.” Shirley Jackson, novelist
