by DianneSalerni | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sometime people ask me how long I’ve been writing or what my first book was.Well, the answer is I’ve been writing — or at least making up stories — for a long time. My first book, I’m afraid, had a derivative plot and characters who were...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 14, 2013 | guest post
I’ve met a lot of writers through blogging, but one who continues to amaze me is Sarah Fine, author of SANCTUM (Amazon Children’s Publishing 2012), SCAN (Putnam & Sons/Penguin 2013), and FACTORY GHOST (McElderry/Simon & Schuster).Sarah, you have to...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 9, 2013 | The Eighth Day, WIP, writing process
It’s a love/hate relationship.I mean, there’s nothing like the exhilaration of completing a brand new chapter, and I’ve been known to stay up WAY past my bedtime because the words are coming and I can’t stop them. But in between those Ta-Da!moments, I usually stumble...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 7, 2013 | First Impressions
The final First Impressions post for the month of January comes from Lauren Ritz. This is the first page for DemonBorn, an adult fantasy. Shadyel turned her head to let her side-set eyes focus on a space in the circle, the place of least prestige...
by DianneSalerni | Jan 4, 2013 | First Impressions
Our second submission for First Impressions comes from Laura Diamond. This is the first page of TSAVO PRIDE, a short story spin off to her YA paranormal novel SHIFTING PRIDE.The world split before me, torn open by a road of steel slicing its way through the...
