Today I completed the much needed spelling / grammar check of Moonlight, my adult romance novel. Believe you and me, there was plenty to adjust. I have given Moonlight a bit of space since finishing, so I could focus on Volume 2 of Craving Beauty. Also, it's pretty standard protocol when revising / drafting your... Continue Reading →
A few years ago, I wrote a love story simply titled Stay. I wanted to explore the subject of love because I had been in a very bitter and cynical position for some time prior to it. So like any true scholar, I decided to do some research. I thought there had to be a... Continue Reading →
February is underway and I've been doing my best to juggle baby + writing. Some real life updates include; my son likes to spit up all the time and look adorable while he does it. So while a part of me laments over the second outfit I've put on him, already ruined, the other melts... Continue Reading →
I've been reading Jane Austen's "Persuasion" again and wanted to share some quotes that stood out to me so far. I forget how much of Austen's writing is prose interspersed by dialogue. An interesting read when so much of our modern novels are filled with dialogue and very little prose. Persuasion has long been my... Continue Reading →
Today I'm sharing the very beginning of my book with y'all. In part because I wrote the prologue of Stay years before fleshing out the novel. She walks amid the soft gray mist, the fog that rises up from the dew-softened earth. Her lover’s arms wrap round her, draw her to his broad chest, and... Continue Reading →
"She had seen the almost-human Orona, who was orphaned and alone in the world, a woman whom Cain had plucked off the streets and fallen in love with. What she didn’t see was the undead creature Cain barely knew, the foolish human girl who fell in love with the caretaker of the seas. She hadn’t... Continue Reading →
When I started writing "Stay," I didn't have a good title for it. I called it "Love Story" for the longest time. Here's the song that gave me the idea. If you aren't a Roswell fan, this vid won't make sense. Beware of spoilers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXdAFA-FO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xg3vE8Ie_E No, not a love song written by Taylor Swift. I'm talking about my novel, "Stay." It's your typical formula. A girl and a guy fall in love. Obstacles arise and you are left to wonder if they will triumph in the name of love, or fall like Romeo & Juliet. This month, I'm going... Continue Reading →
It's a rare thing in life to have a perfect day. But it's not so difficult to make a perfect day as people think. Weekends have always been my favorite time because they're catch up time, a chance to be free from work and gritty responsibility. I've been there with the rest of y'all, stuck... Continue Reading →
Jennifer Silverwood 