The HEA Cafe

My new novella Thor’s Hammer will be released through eXtasy Books tomorrow, February 1st 2007. A year ago, if someone would have told me I would be multi-published now, I would have thought them crazy. So far my novels Virgin’s Blood and Alicia: The Awakening have been getting rave reviews by online reviewers.

You can find the reviews and excerpts by going to my website www.tiannaxander.com and clicking the links on the home page. I’m so excited.

Thor’s Hammer Blurb:

: Emma Thornton has lost nearly everyone she loves. When her parent’s die, she beseeches her pagan God Thor for help. But her pleas fall on deaf ears.

Hello everyone, 

Several of our authors have new releases during the month of February.  They’ll be posting blurbs and purchase information, so please take the time to stop by and check these new releases out.  Also, as before, if you have comments or questions for the authors, please add a comment on their post.

If you have any topic suggestions for the month, go ahead and post those here as well.  If you have a burning question you’d like to ask our authors about writing, the industry or anything else, post a comment.

Thanks,

~Blog Diva

Sorry, I’m late for this week’s topic.  I forgot what day of the week it was already…  So, the topic for this week is:

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?

It’s Monday again, therefore time to post this week’s weekly discussion topic for the week of:  Jan 15-Jan 21.

This week’s topic is:  “How did you make your first sale?”

How many books did the author complete 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.

 I can’t wait to hear everyone’s first sale stories.

~Blog Diva

Hello everyone,

It’s time for our first weekly topic, so please feel free to chime in with your answers.  If readers have any other questions along this vein, don’t be afraid to post them here.

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?

Please post your comments and questions here.