4 Stars from RT!
I found out at the end of last week, that RAVEN received a Four Star review from Romantic Times BookReviews Magazine!
I have to say, that started off my weekend just right. I was jazzed not only by the review, but because I found out about it while this year's RT convention was going strong and they were celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary. That's because it was fifteen years ago when I went to my one (and only) RT convention in San Diego and connected up with the romance writing community.
At the time I was writing a lusty saga about a woman who became a silent film star. She'd lost her mother during the San Francisco earthquake and fire of '06 and developed amnesia from the trauma. Adopted by a childless woman (with an evil husband) who lived in the Ojai region and studied Theosophy, my MC ran away upon this woman's death and ended up in the Venice area of Los Angeles. The hero was a half-owner and business side of a movie studio who drove a Stanley Steamer. His brother was the creative side of that studio. During the course of the story he died in a William Desmond Taylor style murder. (I don't remember having ever figured out who did it.) At any rate, I digress. I dropped this (very highly researched) story when the agent I met and pitched it to told me it wouldn't sell because it took place less than a hundred years ago. Within the next two years, I'd started writing RAVEN, which was the first book I ever managed to finish.
On the subject of finishing . . . I passed 52K words on the BTSNBN this weekend. Now that its going, OMG it's going. I thought it was going to come in around 60K, but now I'm thinking I might even hit 65k. Of course I'm worried to pieces that Act 3 will be the Most Boring Act of All Time, but I thought that about Act 2 and my CP and the DD assured me Act 2 was very exciting--maybe even more than Act 1.
This business of knowing what's going on when it's going on (with one's writing) is interesting. With the current opus, the layering is all happening at once, as if I know what I'm doing. I'm not sure that's true, but my subconscious is in the driver's seat and it seems to.
How about you? Do you layer as you go? Or do you layer by draft?
"A thief, a damsel in distress and plenty of conflict -- what more could a reader want? . . . Black adds sensuality and humor to this intriguing historical..."Especially gratifying is that she noted the humor, which is so much a part of me, I don't always see it. I always worry that I'm so quirky (stop laughing!) others won't get it.---Faith V. Smith, Reviewer
I have to say, that started off my weekend just right. I was jazzed not only by the review, but because I found out about it while this year's RT convention was going strong and they were celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary. That's because it was fifteen years ago when I went to my one (and only) RT convention in San Diego and connected up with the romance writing community.
At the time I was writing a lusty saga about a woman who became a silent film star. She'd lost her mother during the San Francisco earthquake and fire of '06 and developed amnesia from the trauma. Adopted by a childless woman (with an evil husband) who lived in the Ojai region and studied Theosophy, my MC ran away upon this woman's death and ended up in the Venice area of Los Angeles. The hero was a half-owner and business side of a movie studio who drove a Stanley Steamer. His brother was the creative side of that studio. During the course of the story he died in a William Desmond Taylor style murder. (I don't remember having ever figured out who did it.) At any rate, I digress. I dropped this (very highly researched) story when the agent I met and pitched it to told me it wouldn't sell because it took place less than a hundred years ago. Within the next two years, I'd started writing RAVEN, which was the first book I ever managed to finish.
On the subject of finishing . . . I passed 52K words on the BTSNBN this weekend. Now that its going, OMG it's going. I thought it was going to come in around 60K, but now I'm thinking I might even hit 65k. Of course I'm worried to pieces that Act 3 will be the Most Boring Act of All Time, but I thought that about Act 2 and my CP and the DD assured me Act 2 was very exciting--maybe even more than Act 1.
This business of knowing what's going on when it's going on (with one's writing) is interesting. With the current opus, the layering is all happening at once, as if I know what I'm doing. I'm not sure that's true, but my subconscious is in the driver's seat and it seems to.
How about you? Do you layer as you go? Or do you layer by draft?
posted by Gina Black at 8:04 AM
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4 Comments:
Congratulations on the Romantic Times review!
And your wip is storming along!
Thanks Barrie. :) Storming? I think I'm still trudging. But I *am* trudging faster.
Woo hoo! Congrats on that RT review, Gina. That's awesome. You're cookin' with that ms. Keep it up!
YAY on the 4 Stars!!!! But of course!!! And WTG on the new book.
I layer by draft.
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