by Autumn | Dec 19, 2014 | Writing
I wrote in a previous post that I was surprised to find After the War, the first book of my newest trilogy contained more romance elements than sci fi. But would I call the novel a dystopian romance? Should that mishmash of genres even should exist?! To answer that...
by Autumn | Dec 12, 2014 | Writing
My recent two week vacation to Peru was my first as a serious writer. By that I mean a writer who writes or edits every day. With two novels currently in the works and a third mid-way through edits, vacation became not only a debate about leaving my day job for 14...
by Autumn | Dec 8, 2014 | Friends of my Enemy, Games of Fire, Writing
In Ty’s ‘day before the novel begins’ story found in the Born of Novel Companion, he returns home to Myrocene to find nothing is as he remembers it or at least it doesn’t fit the way he remembers it. But really, home hasn’t changed. He...
by Autumn | Nov 14, 2014 | Friends of my Enemy, Tips, Writing
I almost titled this post The Importance of Plotting, but really it is simpler than that. And I don’t want to turn off pantsers! 😉 I mentioned on my Facebook page last week that I’d finished the first read through of After the War, book 1 of my dystopian series...
by Autumn | Nov 7, 2014 | Friends of my Enemy, Writing
Continuing my series of defining genres, in the hopes of finding the correct market for my dystopian WIP Friends of my Enemy, I thought I’d check out what it takes to be labeled science fiction this week. Friends of my Enemy is set in our near future. The short...
