Tag: Writerlife

  • Character Takeover: Atlas Rivers

    Character Takeover: Atlas Rivers

    Hello. My name is Reid and I guess I’m taking over today. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but Amber let me have full reign, with some guidelines. First, I have some questions I have to answer, then I had to provide her with some pictures, and apparently there’s a brief one-shot at the…

  • World Building Friday – Vampire Ranks

    World Building Friday – Vampire Ranks

    So today, despite being a tad bit late, we are talking about Vampire Ranks in the Arkane World. Vampire’s have a different ranking system based on the number of years they’ve been a vampire. This is a very basic list, but it gets the point across. 🙂 Enjoy! I hope that clears it up a…

  • Cut Chapter – The Bluebird Chronicles

    Cut Chapter – The Bluebird Chronicles

    Penelope sighed before closing her eyes and taking a fortifying breath. She should have known he would be here. Of course he would be. What had made her believe he wouldn’t be. This was a party for Asher and Bailey. ……. Penelope had come straight from work, only to walk into the crowded bar to…

  • Soundtrack of My Life – Part 2

    Soundtrack of My Life – Part 2

    A few years ago, before my divorce, I wrote My Life as a Song – Part One. It was part of a writing challenge I was doing with a friend, and it was to write something autobiographical. I made a youtube playlist and everything. It was over on my personal blog that I never post…

  • Character Profile: Luca Watson

    Character Profile: Luca Watson

    Luca is one of the background/secondary characters in No Ordinary Love. He’s part of the band that Mason is in, Blue Sundays. He doesn’t appear too often in the story, except in times when the whole group is together. Luca’s life was a simple one, he grew up the younger brother to Ashton, who is…

  • Setting Preview: Ember’s Apartment

    Setting Preview: Ember’s Apartment

    So this week we’re going to talk about Ember’s apartment. Ember is one of the MC’s from No Ordinary Love. She works for an advertising agency in Orlando and she has a loft apartment in a building and she loves it. It’s not very big, but it’s everything to her. Ember’s apartment is a story…

  • How I do research

    How I do research

    Today I want to talk about the process I use when I have to do research for a story. If you’ll be so kind to indulge me while I talk. Hopefully I can help someone else who’s trying to figure out how to do research for a novel. There are a lot of things that…

  • Tuesday Ten – Happiest Moments

    Tuesday Ten – Happiest Moments

    Today I will be listing off ten of my happiest moments in my 37 years of life. There were a lot to choose from but this list is one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy! Ten of my happiest moments, in no particular order. That’s all for today my loves. Ten of my happiest…

  • Character Preview: Adas Bardhyl

    Character Preview: Adas Bardhyl

    This week on the Monday Character Preview we have Adas Bardhyl. Adas is the Alpha of the Amate Pack in Australia. He’s a minor secondary character from the Bluebird Chronicles and has connections to the main characters because he has been dating Reid’s sister Echo Kingston for the past ten years. Read on to learn…

  • Vampire Lore in the Arkane World

    It occurred to me a couple of weeks ago when I did my first round of Author Takeover’s over on the CWP Facebook pages, that I haven’t really explained the lore for the vampires in my world. I like to play fast and loose with lore sometimes and I should probably explain that. I mean,…