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Your Most Important Audience Is You

February 5, 2012 by Jamie

We writers can get so caught up in worrying about finding an audience, selling books, and gaining recognition for our work, that we forget to love our work. We are our own first readers, and we should each be writing the book we would most love to read. That should be your test of every idea you have for a book and every sentence and paragraph and scene you put on paper. Do you love to read it? Is it […]

Categories: Advice for Writers, Creativity, Reading • Tags: audience, book ideas, reading, selling books, writing

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5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Improve Your Writing

September 15, 2011 by Jamie

1. Lose the adverbs. Slowly, haltingly, feverishly–whatever. If it has an -ly on the end of it, ask yourself if you really need it, or if there is a better verb you could use. 2. Speaking of verbs, in dialogue, keep it simple. Use he said and she said whenever you need to make it clear who’s speaking, and cut out as many of those as possible. The trick is to allow your reader to get lost in imagining the […]

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Listening In

September 13, 2011 by Jamie

Are you an eavesdropper? I am. I can’t help but tune in to the conversations around me. It’s part of being a writer to take everything in, to notice, to study human behavior. I have a bad habit of becoming more tuned in to the conversation at the next table than I am to the one at my own–if, of course, the one at the next table is more interesting. Among the many fascinating snippets of conversation I’ve overheard, I […]

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Why I Heart My Kindle

September 11, 2011 by Jamie

My last Harlequin Blaze novel, Made You Look, is available as a Kindle ebook now. Actually, some of my other Harlequin novels too have been released again as ebooks. More links to come. Do you have a Kindle or any other ebook reader? I bought one this summer, reluctant to spend so much money on yet another electronic device, and it has quickly become one of my all-time favorite possessions. My reasons to love it are many: it’s sturdy and […]

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