Brainstorming techniques? I think I may be the only writer I know without a file of cool ideas tucked away and I’m starting to feel worried about it. I could throw one together, but I don’t think I’d ever look at it again. For me, each novel
READ MORE →“If you won the Lottery, would you quit writing? If not, would the guaranteed income change how and what you write?” by Rebecca Cantrell Quit writing when I finally had the money to not worry about how I’m going to subsidize my next book? Are you crazy?
READ MORE →What was the most fun scene you ever wrote? by Rebecca Cantrell Most scenes—with the exception of those that are frightening or that reflect some horrible historical event—are fun to write. I love putting my characters in a tight spot and watching them get out of it.
READ MORE →I hate these favorites questions. I don’t play favorites. But I know, as someone who now writes YA, I’m going to run across this question again. So, I’m giving it a try. But it’s not definitive. From the time I could read, which is before I remember
READ MORE →What’s your favorite scene your editor asked you to cut? OK, who of us has NOT been looking forward this question? We finally get to pull out that stuff we always wanted to show. I tend to write in a skeletal form and add layers, so my
READ MORE →What big name author is enough to get you to a conference? By Rebecca Cantrell I thought I was going to be the first curmudgeon of the week, but CJ beat me to it. She’s right though. I don’t go to conferences hoping to meet big name
READ MORE →If you were to write a nonfiction book, what would your topic be? As a technical writer I wrote literally thousands of nonfiction pages. I mean, I thought they were nonfiction while I was writing them, or that they would one day be nonfiction. Because I wrote
READ MORE →Which character would I spin off from my series? by Rebecca Cantrell Finally a question that gives historical writers an unfair advantage! I can jump forward in time, so I can spin off even the children. And that’s just whom I would pick. In A TRACE OF
READ MORE →Not having an actual criminal past that I am willing to admit to on the Internet, I decided to talk about the crimes that started me down the road to publication. When I was on Spring Break near Munich, I skipped out on Oktoberfest and went to
READ MORE →NEWS: Busy week for A TRACE OF SMOKE. SMOKE is Thriller Book Club selection at dearreader.com: http://www.supportlibrary.com/fm/shelf_main.cfm?win1=LLIST&id1=81&CFID=21947286&CFTOKEN=97892259  SMOKE also got a good review in the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper on Sunday: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009906280314  Finally, SMOKE and I got a write up in the Hawaii Tribune: http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/articles/2009/06/26/features/features05.txt  POST:
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