Book Backstory
Author Karla Brandenburg shares the inspiration behind books, author stumbling blocks and interviews with her favorite authors. Karla Brandenburg is an award-winning author of contemporary romance novels which include paranormal elements. Now that her children have settled into lives of their own, she loves to go out into the world on adventures with her husband, from Milwaukee to the French Riviera, but the Chicago suburbs have always been “home.” She is an avid reader across multiple genres and is a card-carrying cookie-holic (we all have our vices). Visit her Web page at https://www.KarlaBrandenburg.com
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Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
What goes into creating an interesting character? Do you model them after real people? (No!) Find out more in this episode of #BookBackstory.
#WritingTips #CharacterSketch
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Aug 24, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Jess Michaels is the USAToday Bestselling author of nearly 100 books under three names (mostly historical romance). She's been traditionally published, published with small presses and went fully indie in 2015. Whatever there is to experience in publishing, she's pretty much lived it. She lives in Dallas, TX with her fantastic husband and their adorable dog, Elton.
Historical Romance and USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
In today's episode, Karla Brandenburg discusses how to develop the characters.
#DevelopingCharacters #CharacterSketch
Karla's website
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
In this episode I sit down with a reader who talks about the things that stand out for her in a book.
Also celebrating my new release - ENCHANTED MEMORIES!
Click here to learn more about the new release
#NewRelease #EnchantedMemories #ReaderInterview
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Terry was born in Los Angeles and now makes her home in Divide, Colorado. An avid reader (her parents tell everyone they had to move from their first home because she finished the local library), she always wanted to "fix" stories so the characters did what she wanted, in books, television, and the movies. Once she began writing, she found this wasn't always possible, as evidenced when the mystery she intended to write rapidly became a romance.
https://www.terryodell.com.
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Jodi Picoult: “Write because you can’t not write, or don’t write at all.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got to say something.”
Billy Joel: "If you have to ask yourself if you might be a musician, you aren't a musician."
https://www.karlabrandenburg.com
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Some of the pitfalls of self-editing, including mistakes in developmental editing. Also covered is auditory proofreading, to make sure you catch all your mistakes.
https://www.karlabrandenburg.com
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Southern author Maggie Toussaint writes cozy and paranormal mysteries, romantic suspense, and dystopian fiction, with more than twenty fiction novels published. An award-winning author, she’s past president of Mystery Writers of America-Southeast chapter and an officer of LowCountry Sisters In Crime. She lives in coastal Georgia, where secrets, heritage, and ancient oaks cast long shadows.
Connect with her at https://www.maggietoussaint.com