tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77685984733313064512024-03-13T07:14:35.258-07:00ManituwakEileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-43400962730403844852022-02-08T07:23:00.000-08:002022-02-08T07:23:25.730-08:00Happy Valentine's Day, readers!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDXE_AY7qrWFs6W7WoLa141rhRQ1F4rbOMhtcVdfI38vc2LieRlhgWugEBwvQJTOXXyLPMe1kvNjdJGqn3hHXcRKlAJAuMvAY_1EasViDlP5CKXqbFYFgNHuSYQPV1BQIRH96dRy-r_MGzd9ZTGusrP22GflQcuBXI9_pruDlCLo_Kp83lscwaxdkEg/s1080/Valentine 3 books.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1080" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDXE_AY7qrWFs6W7WoLa141rhRQ1F4rbOMhtcVdfI38vc2LieRlhgWugEBwvQJTOXXyLPMe1kvNjdJGqn3hHXcRKlAJAuMvAY_1EasViDlP5CKXqbFYFgNHuSYQPV1BQIRH96dRy-r_MGzd9ZTGusrP22GflQcuBXI9_pruDlCLo_Kp83lscwaxdkEg/w610-h451/Valentine 3 books.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Valentine's Day, dear readers! Let's celebrate all forms of love this month...love of family, friends, our beautiful home lands and all of Mother Earth. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Don't my Civil War brides look nice all decked out in their red covers?</span></p>Eileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-71023936526266941452021-12-04T03:32:00.000-08:002021-12-04T03:32:19.400-08:002 Books in 2021<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">My friend David made this great graphic to go with my YA mystery <b><i>Death at Little</i></b> <b><i>Mound</i></b>. Isn't it great? Also great is that readers seem to like this, Book 1 of my Linda Tassel Mysteries series. It has been listed in both 2022Mystery and Young Adult awards. 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Eileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-42535588477276470702019-01-04T17:11:00.003-08:002019-01-04T17:11:57.571-08:00<h2>
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I was delighted to visit my fellow writers at the New Jersey RWA Conference and to attend the luncheon with other finalists for the Golden Leaf Awards. </div>
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Eileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-42572389808168958532018-08-01T05:26:00.002-07:002018-08-01T05:26:29.817-07:00<span style="font-size: large;">Delighted that <b><i>Watch Over Me </i></b>was named a finalist in the Daphne duMaurier Awards! Thank you Kiss of Death Chapter of Romance Writers of America!</span><br />
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So off I go April 20 to 22, 2018 to the Chanticleer Conference in Bellingham, Washington. I love the Pacific Northwest and it is book country, maybe thanks to all those cosy rainy days?<br />
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I H Hope you are enjoying the Season of Light! The tradition of welcoming neighbors in for a hot drink toast to the new year has been around for over one thousand years. Wassail! Good Health!<span style="text-indent: -36px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 14px;"> Here's a </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 14px;">recipe</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 14px;"> for your slow cooker that you can keep going all day...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the first six ingredients. Place the cinnamon sticks and cloves on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up corners of cloth and tie with string to form a bag. Add to slow cooker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Cover and cook on high for 1 hour or until punch begins to boil. Discard spice bag. Serve warm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">can't wait for the next in the series!"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Many many thanks to my wonderful editors at BWL, Catherine Brown and Jude Pittman, and cover artist Michelle Lee. What a team! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This one is my love song to New York City, where my parents were born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It’s the summer of 1942 in New York City. War widow Kitty Charente’s night on the town with a man she thinks is her company’s visiting salesman turns into a hunting ground. Luke Kayenta is a Navajo code talker, and a Nazi agent is in pursuit. American isolationists are searching for Luke too. And his superiors at the the U.S. Office of Strategic Services want to know if he’s cracked under torture in Spain. Kitty and Luke must evade capture from one enemy and death from another as they race from the Lower East Side to the Savoy Ballroom to Coney Island, aided by unlikely allies in the Canadian and French spy networks, a Harlem baker, and even Weegee, the city’s most famous tabloid photographer. </span></div>
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I'm using popular song titles of the era in naming the books of the series, and having fun with that. Kitty and Luke don't meet each other in Book I so <b><i>I'll Be Seeing You</i></b> seemed a good choice! It's also one of my World War II army vet Dad's favorites, and we asked that it be sung at his funeral. What a moving moment for the family and friends he was leaving behind after a long life well lived.<br />
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Eileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-22214093304459175002014-04-20T16:16:00.000-07:002014-04-20T16:16:01.465-07:00Lose the IndiansFor writers and the readers who love them…<br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 12pt;">Prime Directive of Criticism: No matter what anyone says about anything you write, it is
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><u>Neither fish nor fowl-- or, oh my goodness gracious me, how do we </u></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><u>categorize</u></span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><u> it?...</u></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Is it history, is it romance? 38 rejections from publishers for <b><i>Gone With The Wind</i></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“<i>An absurd story as romance, melodrama or record of New York high life.</i>” -- <b><i>The Great Gatsby</i></b> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald"><span style="color: #b92d5d; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>F.Scott Fitzgerald</b></span></a></span><span style="color: #b92d5d; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“<i>Too radical of a departure from traditional juvenile literature</i>.” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum"><span style="color: #ad3e00; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>L. Frank Baum</b></span></a> hears of <b><i>The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Rejected because it is narrated by a dog--</span><span style="color: #b51a00; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> <a href="http://www.garthstein.com/index.php"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Garth Stein</b></span></a>’</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">s <b><i>The Art Of Racing In The Rain. (Black Beauty</i></b> and <b><i>Animal Farm</i></b> before that)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><b>Not what readers want...</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“<i>The American public is not interested in China</i>.”</span><span style="color: #b51a00; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Pearl S Buck</b></span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> <b><i>The Good Earth</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">140 rejections stating “<i>Anthologies don’t sell.”</i> The <b><i>Chicken Soup for the Soul </i></b>series sells 125 million copies.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“<i>We don’t know the central character well enough</i>.” --<b><i>The Catcher In The Rye</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Good mystery. But... “We suggest you get rid of all that Indian stuff.” Publisher to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hillerman"><span style="color: #b51a00; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Tony Hillerman</b></span></a>, on his best-selling Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the ‘curiosity’ level.”</i> --<b><i>The Diary of Anne Frank </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">26 publishers reject <b><i>A Wrinkle in Time.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“<i>It was rejected 60 times.</i>” <a href="http://www.kathrynstockett.com/"><span style="color: #b51a00; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>Kathryn Stockett</b></span></a></span><span style="color: #b51a00; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">on <b><i>The Help</i></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Louis Lamour received 200 rejections before becoming the publisher who said YES’s most best selling author (330 million in sales)</span></div>
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<br />Eileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-19376054942834060552014-03-24T04:55:00.000-07:002014-03-24T04:55:16.483-07:00Interview with author MV Freeman<div style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 13.5px;">
<span style="color: #555555; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love talking with writers! A heartfelt welcome to author M.V. Freeman, a fellow author in the Aponte Literary Agency, with BIG news to report...</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She just signed a contract with <a href="http://omnificpublishing.com/" target="_blank">Omnific Publishing</a> for her Hidden Races series! Omnific prides itself as being for: “Romance Without Rules.” Sounds like a perfect fit! Congratulations, M.V.! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I’ve always wanted to write—but no direction. Even as a child I wrote bits of stories and thought up plots and characters. It wasn’t until the birth of my first child--I realized I wanted to write and I started to get serious and learn the craft. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC</b>: That’s kind of amazing and against the grain of what the conventional wisdom is about writers, especially female...(that family life sucks creative juices) and my story too! Parenting was the most important job I ever had and what I first wanted to write about. Nothing like a 24/7 awesome responsibility to get you to FOCUS too, right? I’m experiencing chapter 2 now as I care for my 95 year old mom!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I needed the creativity--but I didn't want to write about parenting. I have a tendency to write about things as far different as I can get. Parenting is difficult for me--I love my children with everything I have, but it's like writing--not for the faint of heart. It developed me more as a writer and human. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Why do you write?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I write because I have to. I have a need to create, because when I don’t I feel lost. On a more practical side—I’ve put so much time into writing, I have to keep going. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC</b>: LOL! I hear you, sister! If I ever calculate how much I’m being paid per hour...but let’s not go there, right?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: At this point it's in the negative digits! *laughing* but oh, I can't stop! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What made you decide to sit down and actually start something?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I was reading a book and I kept reworking the scenes in my head—frustrated with it I initially began to write my version of fan-fic, but realized quickly I needed to learn craft and to write my own stories. Oh, some of those early stories were awful….</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> Oh, mine too! I wrote 2 “practice” novels before the 3rd one got published. For me, this business had a looong apprenticeship!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: It does, oh it does. I think have a bunch of half-hearted attempts, numerous short stories that probably will never see the light of day--but all of it paves the way to where I am now. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Do you write full-time or part-time?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I write part-time because I have to work a day job. It is my goal to eventually write full time. I have learned I have to do what I can with what I have. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Do you have a special time to write or how is your day structured?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I write when I can. I try a bit early in the morning, but most of my writing occurs after 7pm until 10pm. I have a day off during the week and I try to get more done at that time. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> Amazing! I’d fall asleep at my keyboard. Owl, meet lark!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I try the morning--but everyone gets up early here--my oldest daughter is up at 4:30 a.m. Plus it takes a bit for my mind to get focus (re: coffee). At night--I write until my brain drifts, my thought processes go fuzzy. I am not one of those that write until the wee hours; because then I really would be sleeping at the keyboard! I consider my writing--second shift writing. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">How do you think you’ve evolved creatively?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: How? I am learning to balance my writing with plotting and asking the right questions when a story is being formed to write. Creatively it’s an ongoing process—and one that should never stop. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What is the hardest thing about writing?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: Writing is hard—every single thing—the creating, the writing, the editing. Because it is something you must form into a cohesive story. But, I love it. Completely. Because when a story comes together the characters unfurl on the page, it’s all worth it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> Sounds like you are called to this work, MV!</span><span style="color: #6f30a0; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> Thank you!! It's either a calling or a curse.... ha!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What was the hardest thing about writing your latest book?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: The hardest thing was my fear. I was afraid I couldn’t pull it off. But I get this way about all of my stories. I think this is healthy, the trick is not to let it stop me. Specifically—I work very hard on dialogue and pacing, I worry it’s not going to read right. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> Courage is the foundation! I love the Maya Angelou quote: “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” That goes for the writing life too, I think!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: Lovely quote! I agree--!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What is the easiest thing about writing?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: For me it’s the initial idea; my favorite part of it all is world building.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> Interesting... no fear of that blank screen for you! Bravo!</span><span style="color: #6f30a0; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> I may be able to start the story....but where does one go from there? That's where I pace and think. It's not unusual for me to delete 10-20k after I started writing realizing I'm going in the wrong direction. I've begun to realize this is my process...no matter how frustrating. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What are your ambitions for your writing career?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> My ambition is to make a living at writing. To build a reader base and to continue to perfect my craft. This is an ongoing thing, and I realize it’s for the long haul. In five years I want at least two book series done, and few self-published stories out there. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Which writers inspire you?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: Every writer I meet inspires me; I enjoy their love of the written word, the enthusiasm about their stories. Some great influencers: S.E. Hinton, Anne MacCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Jeaniene Frost, Ilona Andrews, Scott Westerfeld, and Stacia Kane…I think I better stop, this list goes on and on…</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What genre are your books?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I am a cross-genre writer—Urban Fantasy/Romance. (I also like YA, and Sci-Fi.) </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What draws you to this genre?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: I grew up reading fantasy and Sci-fi, but I do enjoy the tension of romance. I decided to write what I wanted to read. (I’m sort of a rebel)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Do you proofread/edit all your own books or do you get someone to do that for you?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: Initially yes—but then I send it out to have it edited/proofed by my critique partner’s and to some Beta-readers. But this is for things I am sending out on submission. The final edit is via my Agent because she is shopping it out and has a very good eye for flow. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Who edited your book and how did you select him/her?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> My current book was edited by my agent—Victoria Lea, who is fabulous with story content. I didn’t get a line editor, because this will come later. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Tell us about the cover/s and how it/they came about.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> This is a changing process. My first book cover was developed by my first publisher with minor input—this will be changing. My current book does not have a cover yet. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Do you think that the cover plays an important part in the buying process?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> Very much so, we are visual people and covers must draw the eye. How many times have you walked away from a book because the cover wasn’t to your taste? It also is the first indication of what type of story and genre it is. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">How are you publishing your books and why?<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> I am pursing all avenues. My goal is to be traditionally, small press, and self-published. I think it is important as a writer to have a finger in all aspects if it is possible. My current two books I am trying to traditionally publish, but I am working on another project I intend to self-publish. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What are your thoughts on good/bad reviews?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> Review are opinions. My preference is honest reviews—some will love your story others despise it. Personally, I’ve stopped reading most of my reviews, because it does affect me if I read one where someone hates a story I have worked hard on. Good reviews are great encouragement—bad, is only going to depress someone (so don’t read it!). But it’s important people are allowed to express their opinions even if they don’t like something. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> I think this is a very healthy attitude, thank you!! My work has garnered extreme reactions...I am grateful to like-spirited reviewers who both “get” what I’m trying to do and add their own creative reading to my creative writing. Some are downright poetic and bring so much to the book that I didn’t consciously intend!</span><span style="color: #6f30a0; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But the bad ones run the risk of triggering self-doubt and a downward spiral, alas!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: Exactly--good ones are lovely, but the bad ones can really give you writers block. I have stopped writing for days--when I realized, this isn't good for me or my career. I actually have someone read all my reviews and report back the overall opinion for example--the story line was choppy, that sort of thing. It puts distance between me and the negative and I can deal with it. Plus, I take note because sometimes there are helpful things in those bad reviews. I was also going to say--in my opinion when you get such varying reactions to your writing (Love/Hate) this means you have voice, and when one does the reaction is usually visceral -- so I for cheer you! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What brought you to the Aponte Agency?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> My critique partner introduced me to this agency. I was looking for an agency who viewed working me with as a team effort. I also wanted an agent to love my writing—and Victoria fit all of these criteria. I couldn’t ask for a better agent or agency.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Why do you think that other well written books just don’t sell?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF: </b>Two reasons: Personal taste and marketing. Plus—luck. Who knows why one thing takes off and another doesn’t? I joke and call it writing voodoo….</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">How do you relax?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF: </b>I work out (I haven’t talked about kettle bells yet? Just wait…), cook, hike, read (Audio—is my favorite mode of reading lately), watch movies. But, what I love best is to have tea with someone (my family) or coffee—it’s a time to relax and reconnect, it does great things for me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What is your favorite book and why?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MFV</b>: I have two that come to mind no matter what;</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Anthem by Ayn Rand</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">—because it opened my eyes to things I never thought of. I have images from this book that have never left me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">—A riveting book of characters, class warfare, and the struggle of teens just trying to live. I adored this book. It’s the only book taken from in class where I read it under the desk….(admit it—everyone read at least once under a desk)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> Raised hand here!! Mine: The Last Unicorn and Catch 22!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: Awesome! I love seeing who read books under the desks! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What is your favorite quote?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“ Never, Never, Never, Never Give up”—Winston Churchill</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What is your favorite film and why?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> This is hard one: I’m going to say two (See how contrary I am)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Ink</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: This is fantasy about bad choices, and redemption. This isn’t for everyone—but I loved the story. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">The Lord of the Rings</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">—the trilogy—I know, it is not one movie, but I take the whole trilogy as a whole. To me this was movie of good vs. evil, friendship, tenacity, hope and love. It had it all. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">What advice would you give to your younger self?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF</b>: Get your act together! Focus, get the job done….but I suppose what we go through in the past makes us who we are now. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Which famous person, living or dead would you like to meet and why?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> You know it’s going to be two….sigh.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Condaleeza Rice:</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> To me she is one elegant, smart woman, who has great strength of character. I’d like to get to know her—because I find her inspiring in the way she deals with people and how she conducts herself. I would be fascinated to talk with her. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">C.S. Lewis</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">: The first book I read of his as a child was “Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.” As I became older, I looked more into his life (I thought it was very interesting he was friends with J.R.R. Tolkien). By accounts, his life was filled with heartbreak and joy. I would love to discuss writing and his stories—to find out more of what he was like as a person not through the accounting of others. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">How can readers discover more about you and you work?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">AUTHOR BIO: M.V. Freeman is a native of Minnesota, but calls North Alabama her home. By day her mind is filled with medical jargon at the local health clinic, but at night she finds herself exploring alternate worlds within our own. Heavily influenced by Slavic languages and culture, you will find she weaves these elements into her stories. <br />
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She is represented by <a href="http://aponteliterary.com/about-the-agency/"><span style="color: #00bfbf; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Aponte Literary Agency</span><span style="color: #0433ff; letter-spacing: 0px;">. </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #61177c; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF: </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thank you Eileen for having me on your blog! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC: </b> You’re most welcome! With all this duality I have to ask one more question. You’re a Libra baby?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MVF:</b> Thank you! I'm actually Aquarius.... strange I know</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>EC:</b> Not strange at all, as I hear of Aquarians.. “like to experience both sides and see both opinions as they formulate new ideas with their forward thinking, active mind.” Fits you to a T!</span></div>
Eileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-58400296983467931072014-02-21T03:50:00.000-08:002014-02-21T03:50:17.921-08:00The Duke<div style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had the great privilege to belong to many writers' critique groups over my working life. Some have worked better than others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All have been helpful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Even before anyone uttered a word of critique, the process of hearing my work being read aloud </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">was beneficial.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Remember Duke Ellington’s rule on jazz?</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“If it sounds good, it is good.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few carefully honed words of dialogue can work better than paragraphs of explanation. Dialogue is character- specific. It moves your plot. It proclaims voice. Good dialogue has timing - it rings right in the ear. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So go ahead and speak your written exchanges aloud, too. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember the Duke!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>You can find these and many other bon mots in my guide </i></span></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>ELEMENTS OF THE NOVEL</b>, published by New Street Communications. <a href="http://newstreetcommunications.com/new_street_literary/elements_of_the_novel" target="_blank">Elements of the Novel</a></i></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To celebrate the release of New Street Communication’s audiobook </i></span></span></span><span style="color: red; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>of my novel </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b><a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Waltzing-in-Ragtime-Audiobook/B00HHYGH2W/" target="_blank">Waltzing in Ragtime</a> </b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>leave a comment here between now and April 11 </i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">and I will be happy to enter you in a drawing for a free download of the book from Audible.com.</i></div>
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Eileen Charbonneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963701147781062536noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768598473331306451.post-44873235037388497282014-02-01T03:59:00.004-08:002014-02-01T03:59:42.606-08:00Welcome, readers!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm happy to be joining the blogosphere! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm an author of historical novels, mostly set in America </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I jumped the pond to Ireland once, in reverse of what my grandmother Teresa did in 1893).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's my website, containing more than you ever wanted to know about me--</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was going to call this blog Turtle Crossing, but that was taken. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I popped in a Algonquin word that means "the place of the spirits" </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and clear sailing ahead...who knew? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you can find me here, and I hope you enjoy your time!</span><br />
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