Emilie’s Books
Finding Treasure in the Strangest Places
My husband and I are about to start a new adventure. We are moving, although our destination is undecided, and it’s time to put our house on the market. If you’ve ever moved, you know the next thing that happens. Not choosing a realtor, not painting the woodwork. Decluttering. Michael’s plan to declutter is simple. Dump…
Read MoreCan We Judge A Book By Its Cover?
Early in my writing career I grabbed every novel I could find in the series romance genre to get a feel for what authors were writing and publishers were buying. I remember one in particular. The novel was charming, the cover was so truly horrific that I kept going back to look at it as I…
Read MoreBook Groups and Reader Questions: Whose Life Do We Want to Discuss?
Several weeks ago my editor made a simple, logical request. Please come up with reader discussion questions for the back of my next novel, One Mountain Away, which debuts in August. One Mountain Away is the first book in a new series, Goddesses Anonymous, and centers around issues readers might want to talk about in…
Read MoreJust For Fun–Il Profumo del Mare and other delights
I have a problem. I hate to throw out books. You may think this is a non-issue, since it’s easy enough to donate them to church or library sales, throw them on a card table at a garage sale, give them to friends. But the truth is, I have books most people I know can’t…
Read MoreWhat’s In a Title? Hooking the Reader Through Collaboration.
Okay, I’ll admit it. There are parts of the writing process I do not love. One of them is collaboration. No, I don’t write with a partner, and couldn’t if my life depended on it. But I am part of a team, the team that publishes my novels, and they have a say in lots…
Read MoreIf Fiction is by Definition a Pack of Lies, How Accurate Must I Be?
I love doing research. One of the joys of writing is my freedom to choose subjects that interest me, then read, surf the Internet and travel to find out everything I need to know. Okay, sometimes I just want to know things because I do. I know, as I’m delving deeper and deeper that I…
Read MoreOur Grand Prize Winner in the Great Pie Prize Giveaway
First a big thank you to all who emailed or contacted me through my Facebook page to say that you had bought your copy of Sunset Bridge or were on the way to the bookstore to do so this week. It was so gratifying to get that wonderful response, and I’m delighted so many of…
Read MoreStill Haunted By Things I Don’t Know
Some of you who pop in an out of my Facebook page know that I’ve been working non-stop on character sketches for the first book of my new series, which will debut in August of 2012. Not all authors bother with this. Some are content to allow the character to reveal him or herself as…
Read MoreWatch Out, Jessica Fletcher, Here I Come
Author Casey Daniels once referred to an event in a mutual friend’s writing career as a “Murder She Wrote” moment. Not because our friend Diane found a dead body or solved a murder (although she certainly has written wonderful novels about both) but because she had actually been treated like the star she is during a visit…
Read MoreHow Hard Can It Be? Publishing an eBook.
Last Friday at Southern Exposure I posted the original covers of my novels Once More With Feeling and Twice Upon A Time, and showed the way the eBook cover for Twice Upon A Time grew from stock photography to finished product. Twice Upon A Time was the easiest. I immediately found several photographs I liked, including one…
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