Matching the right voice to your character.

Most times when I write I like having good description for my characters and if I don't get it right, I can throw my character off. It is good that each voice description matches the character's personality and their situation.
No one I know matches the right voice description more than Nicole from Nicole's blog.
Know your character so as to match the right voice.
Now your character's ethnicity
Now your character's background.
Write your description with emphasis and clarity.

Ever So moist and delicious banana muffins

How are you all doing? It's been on of those day, Good Friday and I already have a house full of people that'll be hanging out for the weekend. That means endless hours in the kitchen which I love, no kidding. Cooking  is one passion I hold dear to me and I try to share the benefit of that passion as much as possible.
So, to take myself  away from the intricacies of writing my next novella, which is a little challenging because, one of the characters is a pain the rear. He is controlling  and very moody with no sense of time. I've got to be patient with him.
So, to get my equilibrium going I decided to make banana muffins. I had no idea these muffins would turned out this good. I did substitute half of the butter with cream cheese, and used fresh nutmeg. If it is at all possible use organic, you will notice an increase in flavor.
These muffins I will call 'slap your mama banana muffins'
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup salt free butter
1/2 cup lite cream cheese (not fat free)
2 eggs beaten
4 over ripe bananas (mashed)
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp aluminum free baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. grated nutmeg
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup pecans.
Heat oven o 350 degree.
Combine the dry ingredients including raisins and pecans,set aside.
Prepare muffin pan, line with muffin cups or grease and lightly flour
cream butter and sugar until nice and fluff
Add eggs one at a time
Add mushes bananas and vanilla
Add the dry  ingredients in three parts
Divide into prepared muffin pan 2/3 filled and bake for 24 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Ever so moist and delicious banana muffins.





 

No More Worries With Formating Your Books

Well, it is another wonderful day in the land of reading and knowledge. I should have posted a blog entry yesterday, but my poor daughter was away at Panama City Beach for her spring break. She was having such a lousy time I had to go get her. Not wanting to a 'Sally stick in the mud' and ask her friends  to cut their vacation short so, Mom got stuck with going to pick her up.
The drive wasn't bad going to get her, a friend accompany me. Coming back was a lot of fun, we were  able to stop and have lunch at a really cool Cajun restaurant...can I say good food.
Today, I am bringing you this awesome tool I found. It is going to make your life much easier if you are writing books. I wish I had found this sooner, my life would have been a lot easier. I happen to be browsing a couple of marketing sites on effective marketing strategies for my romance novels, when I came across this lovely site called DIY BOOK FORMATS
. They have taken the headache out of formatting and given templates to get it done on your own with much ease.
You as a writer, knows the difficulty it is to format a book, Sure you can do it in WORD, but that is the very basic and not to forget boring. Getting it done by a profession can cost an arm and a leg. So, I am happy to share with you, my friends. No more frustration from trying to get your book formatted. I hope you will share this with someone and send someone over to this site... I would appreciate it.
Happy reading, and don't let anyone rain on your parade!

You Need To Take Your Books To The Readers

Becoming a self publisher is in many case a choice that is made however, in other cases that is the only option. Self publishing has given so many people a voice that can transcend to places they never dream of. It has opened up avenues of opportunities and streams income never dreamed of. It is a splendor to have self publishing available to everyone, but it is important to remember selling those eBooks is another ball game all together.

Writing a novel is a great accomplishment, but if no one is reading it, then it was written just for you. There has to be a marketing plan in place to get the books in front of the readers. In no way shape or form are readers going to know you in the thousands of books being published monthly. Your goal is to stand out, be visually appealing to the readers.

There have been authors that gain great popularity, not because they are great writers, but because the are brilliant in marketing themselves. They have learned the art of self promotion and bringing readers to their books. Do not wait until readers find your books, take them to where they are. Writing a successful novel or story is when someone is reading it.

Figure out where your strength lies. If it is Face Book, go at it with all the knowledge out in the web world of marketing on that social media site. Do the same with Twitter and not to forget to use your hashtags. LinkIned and Pinterest are now holding their own as social media that is worth being a part of. Use these places to your advantage. This is by no way an easy feat, however it is possible.

Next article I will write about whether or not you have chosen the write niche.

Keep going until you lose the itch to write

Raptured on The Fall

 

Excerpt from Raptured on the Falls

But just because a man visits the bakery doesn't mean he's taking samples, and Dahlia was glad to see that little Miss Rundown-at-the-heels didn't seem willing to serve up any goodies. And if she did decide to act on the hunger behind Sinclair's eyes, Dahlia had something for her – a little dose of reality for any tacky bitch who thought Sinclair was fair game. 

Available on Kindle

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Desire is Published

Annie is distraught when she found out Sullivan was in fact married. How could she be such a fool for not seeing this? Why had she laid her heart out to be trampled, vulnerable, and to be emotionally defeated? Now, she would be trapped with evidence of such affair...would life ever be the same.

vailable on Amazon

NEW RELEASE COMING SOON

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 19, 2014 on  Amazon in Kindle format