The HEA Cafe

It’s that time again.  This week’s weekly topic:  Who are your favorite authors and favorite books. Not necessarily romance genre, either. Let us know what you enjoyed most about this author’s books and what books you’d recommend to those of us currently scouring the bookshelves for something to take us away from our real lives.

 ~Blog Diva

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.