Friday, November 14, 2014

I've gone underground this year, working like a fiend to get my novel The Erotica Book Club for Nice Ladies finished, proofed and off to be formatted. This week that happened and I've been thinking back to how a novel gets started. For this one, I remember it well. The inspiration for TEBC4NL (short hand for a long title) came from an art book my designer daughter brought home from the University of Iowa and left in our library. The book was about a 15th century monastery and showed illustrations recovered by historians of the garden there and other building placements. I loved the ink. It was red, red, red and I always thought I'd write about that old place. In fact, the first draft of the novel started in a monastery. For several reasons, I kept the time period and changed the location, but more later, I'm off to take another look at that book now that the novel has flown off to my favorite book designer.   

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Head down, getting my novel The Erotica Book Club for Nice Ladies ready for the advanced review copies. The publisher is River Junction Press LLC. and the book will come out under Fiction Junction, an imprint of RJP. Pub. date: May 1, 2015, if I keep my act together. Jamison Design did the cover, will format the book, do the website, and other marketing tools. Jamison Design is my daughter Jami's design firm in Nevada City, CA. The cover, which will appear here soon. The novel is the reason for my blog absence, plus a handful of other distractions.   

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Came across this amazing sentence in an ad today.
"Every book you've ever read is just a different combination of 26 letter."