This is a shameless promotion. I do them once in a while. Every time I have another book about to be published. The Snow Queen will be sent to the publishers the end of this year. That's a couple of days from now. If things go as they usually do with Winged Publications, that means …
Author: florencewitkop
writer of fiction, including clean romance, distopian, confession, mystery, sci-fi, romance
Question and answer: How do you stretch an idea or story into a full-length book?
Sometimes you can’t. If the story is thin to begin with, then maybe it’s just meant to be a short story. But most of the time it can become a full-length book by adding twists and turns and more characters to the plot. Put obstacles in the way of the main character achieving what he/she …
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The Snow Queen
A very short post today. Just long enough to show off the cover to The Snow Queen, my soon-to-be-published book 2 of the Wilderness Women series. It follows in the semi-fantasy aura set by the first book, The Pathfinder, and I think it's awesome.
Words, words, words
I'm a wordsmith so when I hear people talk, I listen. Not long ago, I heard a political activist tear apart someone who advocated for a different kind of solution to a problem instead of accepting the speaker's narrow definition what was wrong. The speakers were angry with each other. Very angry. When I went …
Question and answer: What are some sensible steps towards building an online audience for your writing?
One of the best ways to get readers is to create a blog. Post on that blog at least once a week. Less and they might forget who you are. I’m assuming your blog is on WordPress because that’s the most commonly used venue for writers. If so, then you can check out the mechanics …
Snow Queens and Christmas Houses
At the moment, I'm finishing up the second in the Wilderness Women series. It's titled The Snow Queen. As you might guess from that title, it involves beautiful white snow and winter and the things that happen then. I'm also getting into high gear publicizing the last of the Johns Falls books. …
Siri
siri The title of this post says it all. It's about Siri. You know who I mean. Siri, the wonderful, intelligent, talky voice on my iphone. She's supposed to keep me out of trouble, provide relevant information when I need it, and get me where I want to go without incident. She's fairly good at …
Question and answer: How can I find out which genre of fiction writing is best for me?
Try this: Read, read, read whatever you enjoy reading. This tells you what you like to read if someone else writes it and it’s a pretty good guess that you’d like to read it if you wrote it. Take those stories you read and change them into the story you’d write if you’d been the …
Too much of a pretty thing.
When we moved to northern Minnesota, I was fascinated by the deer we'd see in the close forest. They are so lovely, so graceful, and so wonderful to watch. Especially the fawns in the spring. They are awkward, spotted, fascinating infants. So we put out deer feed and that brought in even more deer, more …
Want cards? Want books?
Since I stopped publishing my newsletter I've been trying to think how to continue the one thing that I really liked about it. The giveaways. I gave away one free e-book a month or a hard copy if the recipient didn't like e-books. I also gave away a half-dozen hand-made greeting cards. Sometimes birthday cards, …
