How using the senses in your writing can bring your characters to life

Iris Blobel

Another month, and another authors’ Round Robin. This month our topic is set by author Skye Taylor… Using the senses in writing: how important is it to draw the reader in to experience what your characters are seeing, hearing, smelling, etc? I’ve thought long about this one and my feeling is, reading is a different […]

Some tips on research for fiction writers (and knowing when enough is enough)

Iris Blobel

It’s time for another of our authors’ Round Robins, and this month the topic is… How important is research for your writing? Besides writing fiction, I’m also the author of a non-fiction social history, Struggle and Suffrage in Halifax: Women’s Lives and the Fight for Equality. This book covers the period from 1800–1950. I’ve given […]

Guest Post – Character Interview with The Shadowdancer @Libraryoferana #Fantasycharacter #darkfantasy #Fantasy #Meetacharacter

Iris Blobel

INTERVIEW CHARACTER NAME: You can call me The Shadowdancer Tell us a little about yourself. How do you know I’ll tell you the truth? In fact how do you know what is the truth? It’s such a fluidic term. I am the shadows, they obey me. I am he who walks unseen, unheard. I am […]

The Huguenot Chronicles, by Paul C. R. Monk @pcrmonk: Review and Reflections #Huguenot #HistoricalFiction #KU

Iris Blobel

Both my husband and I have French Huguenot ancestors. Each of our mothers carried the original immigrant’s Huguenot surname, though anglicized. Not long after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes, his mother’s ancestor emigrated from Normandy, France, to the Northern Neck of Virginia. He arrived sometime between 1687 and 1693. It is thought […]

Blades & Brawls: A Mystic Marauder Heroine’s Origin Story

Iris Blobel

As we head into the Thanksgiving holidays in the US, we are being inundated with Black Friday & Cyber Monday specials–so we decided to do one, too! Blades & Brawls Everyone who backs the Mystic Marauder Kickstarter campaign November 21-28 will get a FREE copy of Blades & Brawls, the origin story of our heroine, […]

Mystic Marauder Update! #kickstarter #reverseharem #books #fantasy #paranormal #pirates #romance

Iris Blobel

We are moving right along with our campaign. This week, we’ve gotten more art in from our artists–in particular, the first character card and the second vellum artwork. Check it out below! New Artwork New Stretch Goals Also, we’ve added a surprise Stretch Goal. When we hit $5500 in pledges, we will include a bonus […]

Full Circle ~ Erotic Menage Romance #Excerpt

Iris Blobel

BLURB The Three of Cups: Bounty, abundance, celebration, fruition… all have come full circle Exotic dancer Barbra Atkins has spent ten years carefully choreographing every step of her meteoric rise to success on the private club circuit. Now it’s payback time for the two college roommates who didn’t have time for their nerdy classmate ~ […]

Mystic Marauder: Vampires & Violence, Pirate’s Treasure Journal, New Art, & More! #kickstarter #books #pirates #vampires #shifters #witches

Iris Blobel

Hello, everyone! We have several updates today–check them out below! Stretch Goal #3 We’ve hit our third stretch goal and will be writing Vampires & Violence, the villain’s origin story! Stretch Goal #4 And our next stretch goal bonus is an exclusive Pirate’s Treasure journal. Everyone will get a printable version, and merch-level backers will […]

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