Showing posts with label author Sherry Gloag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label author Sherry Gloag. Show all posts

5 May 2014

My Writing Process Blog Hop ~ 5th May

My lovely author friend Debi O’Neille,  invited me to participate in today's Writing Process Blog Hop. The idea behind this blog hop is for readers to meet new author they may not otherwise come across, so... in advance, thank you for joining me today, and a big thank you to Debbie for inviting me to join in.

What am I working on?
While I have several works in progress at the moment, the one I am concentrating on is called Born Again and is going to take quite a while to complete because it requires a lot of research into technicalities and background.
It hasn't helped that I recently participated in a wonderful workshop about deep pov and now I feel I have to pretty much start over on this project!! LOL.


How does my work differ from others of its genre?
I find this a difficult question to answer. I'd like to think it is because my writing voice is just that - mine. It may have limitations, within the genre, but I prefer to think of it as changing scenery on a journey. We all take journeys, and even if we travel the same route, we may notice different things.


Why do I write what I do?
Because I love reading romances. I like books that have a 'feel-good-factor' ending. And the genre of romance covers just about every other genre in existance. It is just the slant that is different. 
 
 
How does my writing process work?
I wish I could say 'smoothly' but that would be an 'economy of the truth'. Like most writers, on a good day it flows, the ideas pile up like kids in a playground waiting to be noticed and chosen. On other days, I wonder what I'm doing sitting in front of the computer and waiting for inspiration. (Which is why I have so many WsIP - I keep switching in the hope something will work!)
 
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I am hoping that two distinctly different writers will agree to carry this blog hop forward and will add their connections as soon as I have details.
 
I am delighted to announce that Jeff Salter will share his writing process with you at Take Two  Romance on the 19th May.
 
And that David Knight is sharing his today, 8th May, at http://www.ascensionforyou.co.uk/blog/?p=1865 .
 
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My latest project, The Magpie Chronicles, a collection of thirteen short stories of mixed genre, is due for release in the next few days.
 
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30 March 2014

Sunday Snippet



This week's snippet is my last from my first Regency novel,
No Job For a Woman
(now available online for the special price of $2.99)


 “If she will not see sense we are done for. And I cannot imagine where we will find a suitable groom in time who she will accept.” His glance leveled on his friend’s disbelieving face.
 
“You’ve said it yourself, Deborah has no intention of wedding again,” Julian snapped. “Why should I leg-shackle myself to a woman who’s loyalty is with her late husband’s estates and people? You said she and Harold were married for eight years and they have no children. Why should I hitch myself to a woman who may be infertile?


No Job For a Woman is available from:-
 Amazon UK    Barnes & Noble,    Smashwords    iTunes Amazon
 
Thanks for coming by :-) 
You'll find a lot more gifted authors at SNIPPET SUNDAY
 
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10 March 2014

Tuesdays Tales 11-03-14 ~ End




Welcome to Tuesday's Tales  
I'm sorry but this is another isolated snippet this week, taken from my Regency wip started back in 2012.
 
It is 1812 and Consuela remained in London when her affianced, Juan, has returned to the war in Spain. She may not be sure of the stranger who is flirting with her but admits to herself she is charmed by him.

How could someone she didn’t know fascinate and repel at the same time? She turned away to watch their graces dancing together, and hid a smile behind her hand at the outraged whispers around her.  Jealous old tabbies, she thought. Just because they were trapped in uncongenial, she liked the new word her grace taught her that morning, uncongenial marriages, they didn’t like to see the Duke dancing with his Duchess not caring who saw how much in love they were still, after nearly three decades.

“Unusual.” The sound of the deep voice penetrated her musings and reluctantly she refocused her attention.

Yes beneath the veneer something dark lurked in the man’s eyes. A tremor of foreboding skittered up her spine. “It is a pity we cannot dance together.  Do you like to dance?”

“I’m not a good dancer.”  Consuela admitted through clenched teeth and wished for the music to end and their grace to join her once more.

“I find that hard to believe.  A beautiful woman like you, I thought all the ladies learned to dance.”  He swept an arc in the direction of the floor, crammed with couples.”No?”

“I believe the English teach their daughters the dance at an early age, but I, as I am sure you have realised, am not English.”

While the man inclined his head, Consuela noted his smile failed to reach his eyes.
 
 
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9 March 2014

Sunday Snipet ~ 09-03-14


This week's snippet is from my first Regency novel,
No Job For a Woman
(now available online for the special price of $2.99)
 
“What has happened to create the fear, are you saying the Grangers are intimidating Deborah’s estate manager, too? How could they? I mean, if they can do it now, why haven’t they tried it before?”
“I can’t remember where or when,” Henrietta intervened, “but I’m sure I heard Mrs. Granger’s took Brandon’s daughter on as her dresser a few months ago.”
“I wonder—” Julian looked up at Freddie, “how can we discover whether there’s been any contact between the Grangers and Brandon during your sister’s visit here?”
Unable to keep the tremble from her voice, Henrietta expressed her own fear. “Are you thinking they’re using the girl as some kind of hostage to force Brandon to do their bidding?”
 
No Job For a Woman is available from:-
 Amazon UK    Barnes & Noble,    Smashwords    iTunes Amazon
 
Thanks for coming by :-) 
You'll find a lot more gifted authors at SNIPPET SUNDAY
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4 March 2014

Tuesdays Tales - Pale



Welcome to Tuesday's Tales  
This week's prompt is -Pale-  and my offering is, for now, an isolated scene that will hopefully end up in a story of it's own.
Dust motes danced in the pale sunshine filtering through the mucky window. She’d never seen such a thick coating of dust on a surface before, let alone a whole room. If this was some mythical castle with a hidden room forgotten for centuries she’d understand.
Stuffing her itchy fingers into her jacket pockets Brenda stepped across the threshold. “Dust smells.” Her grandmother’s words echoed in her head, but she couldn’t deny them. The room smelled. Fusty. Forgotten. Forlorn.
Fighting the urge to tiptoe across the floor she headed for the window. Would it open? Had it been closed for so long she’d find it frozen? Under the dust beneath her feat Brenda thought she recognised a Persian rug. What kind make or brand, if they had such things, she didn’t even hazard to guess. The tattered material hanging from the canopied bed had her looking over her shoulder. Worn the material may be, but the tears in the material looked more like knife slashes to her. What had happened in here that the room had been abandoned for so long?
And, she stopped, her hands resting on the window frame, why had her grandmother left her this house in her will? She had her own city apartment close to her work place. All the amenities within walking distance, well almost. Now if her grandmother had left the place to her brother Gabe. That would have made more sense. But then, like this room, no one seemed to know what had happened to him either.
Letters from his email continued to arrive each day to her own box, but they weren’t from him. She knew. She just knew they were not coming from Gabe. At first she’d assumed he’d been in a hurry, and responded as usual, before something penetrated. Even now, looking back, she couldn’t put her finger on what trigger her concern up to worry and then outright disbelief.  Unsure how to react to her certainty that Gabe was no longer in contact with her she’d continued replying. Apparently as usual to someone who shouldn’t know the score. But the responses passed all her little tests. Small misspellings they’d agreed on if one of them was concerned for the other. Deliberate typos. After all how often had she and Gabe laughed over what she called ‘her typing dyslexia’? She could suddenly go weeks where she mistyped words. Adding in an extra letter, reverting them so ‘play’ would end up being ‘paly’. Or the words where she left off the final letter altogether.
Whoever was responding picked them up said the right things, and yet something, deep within her told Brenda her brother was not the author of his supposed letters.
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8 February 2014

Romance is in the Air

Romance is in the Air Giveaway Hop
Featuring Young Adult & Clean Adult Romance
February 8th to 14th
Cohosted by Rachael Anderson
 
GIVEAWAY
To win a pdf copy of my Valentine story The Wrong Target
just answer this question...
What does Valentine's Day mean for you?
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if you want to be included in the draw.)
 

 
Headmistress, Tina Blackberry and business tycoon, Ryan Thomas can't control events after Ryan's daughter steals his coveted golden arrow and takes it to school, But put Cupid on the job and nothing can go wrong, or can it?
You can find out in The Wrong Target
 
 
 
 
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My other Valentine Stories are:-
 
His Chosen Bride which is the second book in my Gasquet Princes series and my second Valentine themed book.
 
Prince Henri Gasquet is happy to let his father, the king, choose his bride for him until he meets Monica Latimer.
Monica Latimer is not prepared to risk letting any man close enough to learn about her Gift. A gift that normally has men running for the hills when they find out about it.
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and
Queen of Diamonds
is part of  Astraea Press's anthology
which includes
fifteen fantastic stories from fifteen fabulous authors.
 
 
 
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