The HEA Cafe

Hello everyone…

Below you’ll find the general schedule of events for the HEA Cafe for the month of January.  The following authors have books scheduled for release during January, 2007:  Joanna K Moore, Sylvia Day, Ann Cory, Emma Sinclair, Jackie Kessler, Lyn Cote, Nikki Poppen, Kate Pearce, Sloan St. James, Marly Mathews, and the writing team of C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp.

Jan 1-Jan 7

Authors with new releases for the month of January will discuss thier books. Feel free to comment on the Author’s post if you have questions or comments.

Jan 8-Jan 14

For full time authors: Do you spend 8 hours a day writing? What are you doing in that 8 hours, typing on a keyboard, researching, marketing, emailing, etc? If your truly writing for 8 hours, what is your word count, page count, chapter count?

How long does it take you to typically write a book? A couple of months, a year? If your taking say six months to write one book how long did it take you to write your first draft?

Jan 15-Jan 21

“How did you make your first sale?”

Questions like: How many books the author completed before selling … how long it took that “winning” manuscript to go from submission to sale … whether there was an agent involved … and what, if anything, made the final difference in going from unpubbed to pubbed.

Jan 22-Jan 31

Remember those spreads in Glamour about a dozen years ago where a celebrity would dump her purse out and let the world see what she carried around all day? Loved those– can we do a virtual purse-dumping? Or “writing bag?” When you truck off to Starbuck’s for a latte and window on life, what are you carrying around with you? Even a “what’s on your desk?” Or what’s in your top drawer?
Have a wonderful and joyous New Year!!

~Blog Diva