Over to Annie. :) Welcome Annie.
Writing
is a lonely occupation. Days sitting at the keyboard with the dreams and
pictures in your head being transcribed to words. Hours spent blogging and
promoting your brand. Hours spent editing and re-editing and fighting with your
internal editor until you press that important send button.
Hours and days to get your edits back to your editor after you are accepted!
Talking to your characters and then surfacing to come back into the real world.
But while it is all great fun... and I love nothing better to see a day stretch ahead of me when I have nothing else planned except writing...I would like to tell you about the social side of writing.
The best things for me?
Being published and sharing my stories is of course number one!’
Holiday
Affair, http://www.amazon.com/Holiday-Affair-ebook/dp/B007KTECCQ is my first contemporary romance and has been
on the Amazon best seller list for seven months now and it is a dream come true.
Winter
of the Passion Flower http://www.amazon.com/Winter-Passion-Flower-ebook/dp/B007L4DM9O and Blind Lust http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Lust-ebook/dp/B008BP8VX4 are also
getting great reviews on their niche genres.
As well, I have made some wonderful online friends all around the world.
Writers with common interests and the same problems, writers who worry over
characters and plot, grammar and punctuation and the wait to hear back from
their publishers and editors! I receive email from Wales, Spain, Texas and England
most days and I look forward to talking to my ‘friends’.
A
common thread of our conversation... it was all a fluke, I can’t really write.
and then you see their books climbing the best seller ranks.
The
Facebook and Twitter community. Whilst they are the BIGGEST time suckers and
you have to ration yourself—or at least I do—these social networking sites provide
solidarity, support and often a laugh in a lonely day.
The
authors’ and publishers’ email loops. A great forum to discuss problems and
help your writer colleagues promote their books.
Our
national associations—Romance Writers Australia and Australian Romance Readers Association
are tremendous organisations who provide a wonderful contact point and a
plethora of resources for authors.
But
best of all? Our face to face writer groups. It is a pleasure being a guest on
Suzanne’s blog as we both belong to the wonderful 4PAN writer’s group on the
mid north coast.
Let
me tell you about the hidden local talent... until I joined RWA last year, I
didn’t know these wonderful writers lived close by.
Jenn
J. Mcleod http://www.jennjmcleod.com/ whose wonderful
debut novel, A House for All Seasons will be out in time for Mother’s Day next
year
Kerri
Williams http://www.kerri-williams.com/ great stories...romance,
suspense and young adult fiction
Fiona
McArthur http://fionamcarthur.com/ who has more
than twenty five Mills and Boon medical romances available and the wonderful non-fiction
Don’t Panic Guide to Birth
Diane
Curran http://www.chickollage.com/ who writes
collage poetry and is on her journey to publication
Elle
Fynllay http://ellefynllay.wordpress.com/ who has been a
wonderful critique partner for me and is also on the road to publication with
her medieval history novel
And
last not but least, Suzanne Brandyn whose site you are on, who writes riveting
romantic suspense.
You
can find me at
Website: http://annieseatonromance.com
Twitter: @annieseaton26
Thanks
for hosting me Suz, and letting me share my thoughts about writing.
What is the best thing for you as a reader or writer? Come along and leave a
comment
7 comments:
It's true, writing has many rewards by the people are the best! Don't know how we'd get through it without them!
Speaking of 4PAN group. It's time to par-tay! (We do do that so well...oh and we write too :)
PS Suz, your CAPTCHA drives me nuts - I think it could be an IQ problem of mine LOL. Sometime I try three times and then give up. Can you make them easier!!!!!!
The excuse to spend time 'dreaming up' plots and characters? Maybe. Scouring the net for images of my next hero? Definitely. How else can I justify to my husband my need to have Daniel Craig emerging from the sea on my wall!
As a writer I get to meet many wonderful people. I love the RWAustralia conferences. As a reader I can lose myself in a good book.
I haven't read Holiday Affair, and now it's going to be my next on my tbr pile.
Tarnya. x
Writer - the wonderful friends I've made with HRW f2f group.
Reader - I, transported into another world, another life and its relaxing.
Thanks for popping in! It is great to see the friends we all make through our writing
Thank you everyone for calling in. Annie is not only a remarkable writer she is also an editor who doesn't mind sharing and helping writers.
Jenn, it must be your CAP...Whatever it is called because no one else has said anything. It's blogger as well so I'll have a look at it as I'm not sure you can change it.
Suz :)
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