I was invited to join in on the My Writing Process Blog Tour by the lovely fantasy writer, Carol Browne. Please take a peek at her blog as she writes good stories.
I was just offered a contract by Permuted Press for my
paranormal horror novel, VOICES. I’ll keep readers posted on a release date for
that on my website. I’m working on another paranormal gothic horror, THE
ISLAND. I expect to be done with that by the end of the year.
How does your work differ from others of its genre?
I write gothic horror and paranormal. I've had several reviewers say that my story lines are new and different, which makes me very happy to hear! I don't do romance, which seems to define paranormal these days, and I don't do gore and extreme violence, the calling card of many horror novels. So there you go.
Why do you write what you do?
I write what the characters tell me to write. I'm at their mercy, so to speak. I was pulled into the paranormal genre by accident. The characters of Lucas and Cronan (from BETWEEN) came to me with complete back story while I was working on a YA fantasy series. They wouldn't go away and they didn't belong in young adult fantasy literature. So, I stopped working on the series and started on BETWEEN, a story of the paranormal. My novel STRUCK followed, as did VOICES and THE ISLAND, which I'm working on now. I don't think I'll go back to writing YA fantasy. I've been pulled into the Otherworld permanently and the ideas come faster than I can write them down.
How does your writing process work?
At the risk of sounding odder than a writer should, characters will pop into my head and start telling me their story. Some appear in my dreams, some just hit me full-force and I'll start writing. It usually takes me a month of furious writing time to finish the first draft, and a year to do edits and research to get the details right.
Thank you for stopping by! I've tagged these two authors to continue the tour. If they don't have their writing process post up now, they will very soon. Meanwhile, please take a look at their blogs...
Annie Anthony
H.L Carpenter
Holly Rutan
Annie Anthony
H.L Carpenter
Holly Rutan
