by DianneSalerni | Jan 20, 2014 | The Eighth Day, WIP, writing a series, writing process
Daughter #2: A classic portrait of “WAH!”I’ve been fretting a lot because the first draft of Book 3 in the EIGHTH DAY series is not coming as easily as I’d like or as fast as I want. I know I’ve complained a little about it here on the blog, but that’s...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 15, 2014 | interview
Over my Thanksgiving break, I planned to do a ton of writing and revising. What I did instead was get sick and stare blankly at my laptop in a miserable stupor. Eventually, I gave up, opened my Kindle and started reading a free sample of The Atomic Weight of Secrets,...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
I started In High Spirits on January 8, 2010 with a post called Optimism in a New Decade. It was just a few months before the release of We Hear the Dead, and WAY too late to build a platform of readers before a book launch – but I didn’t know that at the time! For a...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 10, 2014 | First Impressions
Our third submission for First Impressions in 2014 is a YA Contemporary from Tammy Theriault, titled LIVING RUNAWAY: “Mom?” I called out, tossing a stack of envelopes towards the kitchen island, spreading them like wings in midair. “I got the...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 8, 2014 | First Impressions
Our second submission for First Impressions comes from co-authors J Bean and Chris Palmer for the third book in their Cape Cod Witch MG fantasy series: ELSBETH AND THE CALL OF THE CASTLE GHOSTIES:THE CALLPresent Time, Scotland, the CastleDurst was not upset about...
