In the movie “Grosse Pointe Blank”,  John John Cusack plays a hit man.   When he meets a rival hit man for lunch and terms of truce or not, first there are the guns semi-hidden under the table and the strange discussion with the waitress on what to eat and how long it takes to make.  The ordering of food reveals their mistrust, their suspicions, and the eagerness for the meeting to end.  Because the other hit man is Dan Aykroyd,  the scene comes off humorously.  For those unfamiliar with this movie, it’s a dark romantic comedy where a hit man goes home for his class reunion.

The movie “Julie & Julia” is all about food, as a young woman records her adventures on her blog as she cooks her way through Julia Childs’ cookbook “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”  It has a dual plot that shows Julia Childs following her dream of becoming a French chef.  How she enjoys food and the preparation of it is integral to the plot.  Her character is revealed in how she achieves her dream, down to chopping endless onions until she gets it right.  You see it in Julie’s character when she lives through the repercussions of her cooking and writing about it.   Is the act of creation a struggle or pure pleasure?  Is the result delicious or disastrous?  In this case, cooking is the movie and it’s delightful viewing.  Go out and eat afterward though.  You will be hungry.

Probably the most thought of movie when it comes to eating is “When Harry Met Sally” starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.  In the famous scene at the deli where Sally is eating a sandwich during lunch with Harry, she explains that women can fake organisms and the proceeds to give a very loud demonstration.  A woman at a neighboring table tells the waiter she will have whatever she (Sally) is having.

Sex and food go along well together and authors have fun writing those scenes of seduction.   What scenes from books or movies have you loved that showed the use of food to reveal something about the character(s)?

–Susan
Susan Hanniford Crowley
http://www.susanhannifordcrowley.com

All my life, my right brain warred with my left brain. While studying accounting I was told I didn’t fit the mold. Art teachers told me to try something else. So throughout the years, I tried difference creative outlets and succeeded at most.

Growing up I wrote until I hit my twenties. In my twenties I sewed. In my thirties I did crafts and in my forties I knitted and crocheted. No, I didn’t have to draw or paint to be creative. It wasn’t until my fifties that I went back to my first love and wrote. Why did I wait all these years to do it? Life, it sometimes gets in the way.

This week I started a left brain job. That’s right, left brain. I love numbers. It’s one of the reasons I became an accountant. The job and people are wonderful. I now have the best of both worlds, three days a week I exercise the left brain and four days a week I let the right brain take over. I have so many stories in the pipeline which are waiting for the final edit, or that elusive final chapter.  This weekend the right brain is up for a marathon. Can’t wait to see what exciting stories emerge from this session.

LEFT>>>RIGHT! Got me thinking. So I Googled this theory to see where I’d land on these tests. And guess what? I’m fifty percent left brain and fifty percent right brain. What are the odds?

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Which side of your brain do you use most? I’d love to know. Is it equal?

–William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

A name might only a small detail, but it isn’t.  It influences how readers feel about and relate to a character.  It’s a continuous effort for authors to think of new names for new characters.   Families have a similar challenge when they are expecting a baby.

So where do you start?  I often dream of my stories and my main characters come named.  Sometimes I don’t get the last names clearly, and I have to do research.  You may not consider a name as important, but if you’re a Twilight fan, would you still feel the same about Bella and Edward, if their names were Marla and Frodo?  There is a subtle music in names when they are together, especially when you’re considering names for a romantic couple.  You may try a lot of them before one set rings true to your ear.  But where to look?

1. Phone book– I’m serious.  Try a mix and match with the phone book.

2. Cemetery stones–You can sometimes fine beautiful antique names like Cordelia and Lydia and Sushanna.

3. Baby name books–I have three baby name books, one of which is a book of rare and unique baby names.

4. Family trees–You might find them helpful, unless everyone on your tree is named Joshua and Sarah.  LOL  I laugh because I’ve seen that.  Those names were big with one family for many generation.

5. Cultural and ethnic names–I like to look on the internet by typing in “Greek baby girl names” for example.  There are some amazing names.  I’m currently looking up Scottish names.

6. If you’re a published author, have a contest and have fans submit names.

7.  Use a Scrabble board and toss the letters.  It’s fun and you come up with some exotic variations.

8. Name Generators.  There are all these websites with name generators that are rather fun.  I’ve tried a few of them.  I’m putting the ones I like.
http://www.namegenerator.biz/baby-girl-name-generator.php

The Pirate name generator made me laugh.  You enter in your name and receive a Pirate Name.  Argh.
I got Pirate Kathryn the Fashionably Late  http://gangstaname.com/names/pirate

Well, that was fun.  Be careful when visiting these sites that you only click on the name generator button and nothing else, and if your virus protection tells you not to go to a site, don’t.   Otherwise, have fun.

Where do you find your names?  Either for a character?  Or for baby?  I’d like to know.

–Susan
Susan Hanniford Crowley
http://www.susanhannifordcrowley.com

Okay, I know this blog is pretty torturous so far as I’ve spent most of it talking about what’s wrong but I’m making a point here and that is, it’s very hard to stay inspired when we tend to focus on all that could be right instead of everything that is. We’re human so that’s only natural, but admittedly, being positive and inspired are quite a bit of work.  Understanding this is key to understanding that you will have days that will drag and you will have days your characters and work just aren’t being cooperative. My advice? Don’t fight the current and let yourself be inspired. In fact, aim to be so.

So now the real question, how do we do this? The truth is I don’t know the answers for everyone as we are all different and will be motivated and inspired in different ways. I will say it is important that we search for it and be open to trying different things. I wrote last week about power hours and those have been a huge help to me. My inspiration also comes from my critique partners and fellow critters that I see working so hard. What about you all? Where does your inspiration come from? How do you keep yourself from falling into those ruts?

Happy Writing this week!

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Below are the details for The Dom with the Perfect Brats, now available on amazon, B&N, and ARe. Buy links below!

Blurb: 

Godfrey Cross is a big, tattooed Dom with no tolerance for brats.
But when he meets two mouthy vanilla girls, he begins to see their charm.

Gemma and Izzy seem more into each other than into him and he
wonders if he’s wasting his time. Yet despite the clash between
his strict version of BDSM and their rebellious natures, he finds
himself growing to love them.

When his need for control tears their relationship apart, they must
learn to compromise or they will lose each other. People may not be perfect, but could these two be perfect for him?

Warning: this book contains a saucy tattoo artist with a love for the strap, a Dom who turns bratty girls into sex zombies, and a Big Evil Bed that’s used to tie up unsuspecting subs

Contains BDSM elements, M/f/f, and f/f

Excerpt:

He yanked her chair away from the table so fast she almost fell out of it.

“Kneel,” he commanded – stern, with baritone depth, and his eyes were stone.

Her brain didn’t get involved. She dropped to her knees immediately then cursed herself for the easy obedience. Before she could get up and give an outraged protest, a hand gripped her hair and held her there.

It felt like all the blood in her body rushed down between her legs. God, she was ready to beg him to fuck her again. This was so not fair.

He poked her fork into a bite of scrambled egg and placed it in front of her mouth. With his hand in her hair, she wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon. She opened her mouth and let him feed her.

“Good girl,” he said then released her.

Good girl? She scowled up at him, confused, horny, and so unsure of what she was doing she wanted to bite him.

He tapped the side of her face with a finger. “Scowling at your Dom is a punishable offense.”

Reviewers say:

“if you haven’t read this series yet, do it, you won’t be disappointed. They are all fun, loving, erotic and have an HEA that will have you in tears. The Dom With The Perfect Brats will have you reading with a smile on your face, wicked tingly feelings down below and a heart bursting with love” - Guilty Pleasures Review Blog

“These three have done it again! The Dom with the Perfect Brats is a beautifully kinky masterpiece! Be ready to laugh your a** off…be ready to ball your eyes out….and be ready to just feel for these wonderfully messed up characters.” – Shayna’s Spicy Reads

“I found myself chuckling at the retorts Gemma and Izzy threw at Cross and how he handled such sarcasm. But in between all of that, you could see their feelings growing for each other, especially the brats needs to want to please Cross. In every relationship comes great turmoil…let me tell you when I read such scenes, you’ve done a good job as an author when I run to reach for some tissue!” – Evita’s Reads

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The week ahead for:

Per the suggestion of writing friend Martin L. Shoemaker, I pick up a book called The Write Stuff, by Barry B. Goodyear.  It’s a fat book about “writing the best stories of which you are capable.”  The book is full of assignments for you to do in order to improve your writing.  You can’t just read your way through this book and get the benefits, you have to work your way through it.

A lot of the beginning of the book has to do with self-discovery, knowing who you are as a person so you can know who you are as a writer.  One exercise sounded kind of off the wall, but as I wanted to really get into the spirit of things (and make progress on my decluttering), I decided to go for it.

Step one of the assignment: go around your house and collect the books that are really special to you.  The ones you’ve read fifty times, or at least three or five times.  Put them in a pile.  Then do the same for DVDs, CDs, even art.  Longyear then gives a long list of genres/categories, both fiction and nonfiction, and tells readers to sort all their stuff into those categories (yes, you’ll have piles of junk all over the house).  Now, look at the biggest pile (and for me, there was no mistaking which pile THAT was).  That pile is you.  It’s you as a person, and it’s you as a writer.

He preempts the question, “Well, what if I want to write kid’s books but my biggest pile is mysteries?”  His answer is that what you want to write and what is truly you and what is in your heart don’t always jive.  If you want to write mysteries, for example, but your biggest pile is historical romance, he wants you to really think about why.  Why do you want to write something that doesn’t represent what you surround yourself with every day?

I really suggest you pick up a copy of Longyear’s book (available as an ebook, too).  My pile truly opened my eyes.  It made me feel extremely…relieved.  I felt relieved to find myself once more.  When I looked back at my bookshelf afterward I was shocked to see how much I had been deceiving myself, as far as who I am, etc.

Some of it has been a coping mechanism.  I had a really tough year a couple years ago, with a matter that I won’t go into here, but where I felt as though I failed someone young in a big way. I was supposed to be a hero, but I was faced with a situation where saving this person was beyond my control. I think some of my putting certain things aside had to do with hiding a side of me that felt shame, inadequacy, and other pleasant things like that.  It was a part of my grieving process, I think, to hide the part of myself that brought me happiness.  A lot of my comics, toys, and fanciful art were put away.  Frank Miller, Robin McKinley, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Ursula LeGuin, Alan Moore, Diana Wynn Jones, Holly Black, my urban fantasy, my fairy tales, my superheroes, all collected dust on my top shelves.  To do this exercise, I had to take them all down again, because those were the books I had always gone to.  I hadn’t read the same book twice since I put them away.  To do this exercise, I had to look into that mirror that Atreyu has to look into in the Neverending Story, and see my true self.

Atreyu at the mirror gate

Well, I did it, and for the first time in a couple years I wasn’t ashamed or disgusted with what I saw.  I wasn’t filled with anxiety upon hearing the adventurous, heroic–yet flawed–voice inside me. I didn’t feel afraid that I would betray it, so I finally was able to listen to it.  And I started to write down what it said…

Have you ever betrayed yourself or your voice by doing things you didn’t really believe in? Have you ever struggled with who you are as a writer or a person in general? What helped you pull out of it?

I know my major weakness in writing and it’s definitely not having enough push through GMC (Goal, Motivation, Conflict), which then slows down my pacing.  I know how to leave a great hook at the end of each chapter, but not yet at the end of each page, certainly not enough to be a page-turner. In taking on the challenge of writing YA for the first time, I also realized I have no idea how it feels to prepare for prom night. High school was eons ago, and I’d missed out on the prom anyway. Reading Meg Cabot and watching “Pretty Little Liars” just isn’t first-hand enough for me to “be there” and coax the reader “there.” So, in my dilemma I turned to my granddaughter, Viktoria, who had just moved beyond high school and the potential wounds were still fresh, the pathos still glorious.

I had recognized in her a fellow writer a long time ago; after all, when she was but a toddler her dollies had triple and quadruple names! When I submitted some of our joint effort to the Write Stuff contest, a judge’s comments on her particular contribution earned the accolades of “exceptional, moment by moment, compelling,” and my admiration grew into in-depth respect.

She was thrilled. Enough to email me: What else can I write? What more do you need?

By that time only one more chapter was needed which, however, grew into three more chapters that somehow greatly enriched the story. Initial confusion ensued, followed by frantic re-organizing, hopefully ultimately leading to an easier, more natural flow, deepening the “river bank.” It’s nerve-wracking and thrilling at the same time; if one of us gets lost, the other casts over the rope to grab and find her way out of the quagmire.

I read somewhere that creativity is plunging into the Universal Consciousness. If so, when Viktoria plunges you have no idea what she’ll come up with when she re-emerges. All you can do is brace yourself and be there, with a pencil and pad to take notes of gems of wisdom and insight from the lips of a 19-year-old, who at age 4 was already more like 40.

Viktoria has been an international figure skater for a number of years and, more recently, an aspiring actress with dozens of auditions under her belt, so GMC is in her blood.

She is a very busy young lady, to say the least. By the time she supplied me with a few pages addressing the topic I had already moved beyond it, albeit not in any meaningful way.  What she gave me, belatedly, I realized was good enough, fresh enough, first person POV (point of view) enough, to revise the sequence of my already “carved-in-stone” chapters and begin the novel with it. Here is an excerpt from “Let the Blood Bath Begin”:

“As prom is in the month of May, does it make sense to start planning and talking about it in October? Well, of course. You need the perfect dress … You need to pick the perfect date, otherwise you will end up with someone like your cousin and well, starving children could not suffer a more unfortunate fate. You need to ask that date in a cute way, because you’re obviously going to marry them and you need a cute story for your grandchildren.”

Comments, observations, filled with the protagonist’s (and Viktoria’s) edgy sense of humor.  Until the boy she likes extends an unexpected invitation, leading to a distinct attitude shift:

“I had never in my life felt so light, so soft, and so––liquid! I am going to Senior Prom with Daniel Hopkins Fontaine IV! I spin around in a circle with my arms out in the vacant school hall, sort of like Maria on the top of the Alps before she became Baroness von Trapp …”

Viktoria’s contribution was filled with first-person, first-hand experience: pain, disappointment, a teen’s exaggerated reactions that seem perfectly reasonable, throughout it all an intense yearning for the perfect night, then the wisdom that follows, sometimes, hard-earned through self-reflection. The character of high school girl Samantha Jonquil MacRae is still being shaped and deepened through Viktoria’s own experiences and ability to share them. She is still close enough to the mercurial fluctuations of giddiness, euphoria, and the cusp of drama and trauma, leading to emotional resilience at some point in life.

A few months ago I asked her to beta-read something for me, looking simply for a reader’s reaction. Instead, she got her pen out and proceeded to delete unnecessary commas, explaining the efficacy of her actions. They made sense.

I’m learning as we go on, in spurts, since she is a busy girl. This summer she will do an acting internship at the Ivoryton Playhouse, and in the fall she begins a 9-month tour with Disney on Ice as an ice princess. Sadly, she won’t be here to pitch with me at Fiction Fest, so I’ll be on my own, missing out on her passionate soliloquy describing “our book.” But, I’m learning to take what I can get and be flexible as I agree to take sudden turns in the story line (literary whiplash!), and ride the dizzying roller coaster called co-authorship with a granddaughter. She “updates” me. I discover it’s no longer cool to use the word “cool,” in fact, as she says: “Adults use it to feel cool.” I don’t take offense, she is right. Her observations cut to the core, which is where we want to take our readers, right? We’re comfortable with each other, instinctively knowing it’s the story that matters and not ego-based personality differences. It’s an all-around growth experience.

She is my built-in copy editor, pointing out discrepancies; I’m her proofreader, drawing from my experiences as a freelance proofreader for Manhattan publishing companies.

 “In a successful collaboration of ideas each partner contributes their particular skills and experiences to the project as a whole. It’s always about the story!”  – P.J. Parrish

P.J. Parrish is the pseudonym for a sister duo of mystery writers with varied life experiences. Their tenth book in the award-winning series of Detective Louis Kincaid was just published. These co-spinners of tales live 1,600 miles apart—Kelly Nichols in Michigan, and Kristy Montee in Florida—and screen-share their ideas on Skyping, as they decide “who has the better feel for the action or character at that moment in the plot.” For years they “wrote” through phone calls and email.

“There is a style that emerges,” they attest. “What one fails to catch, the other does—double dose of energy and imagination. Double insight of character and plot.”

When it works, it works fabulously. When it doesn’t, don’t strain yourself.

As we weave the storyline, we’re also weaving delightful memories. We had watched a version of Pride and Prejudice together—I’m learning to just watch and not sporadically comment—and next, we’re having a picnic on the Guilford Green to discuss the possibility of creating yet another new chapter in which Samantha, a reserved young girl, is jolted out of her confines by playing the leading role in the high school musical. Again, part of Viktoria’s diverse actual experiences!

It’s not always smooth sailing, of course, we have not yet honed our writing relationship. Last night at 10 Viktoria called me, euphoric, telling me she just wrote another chapter for “after the prom.”  She was wide awake with excitement and a day of dancing and skating, I was already dozing. She woke me right up! However, since she had been on a hiatus from our work because of other commitments, I was already finished with that part. How to tell her without clouding her joy, her enthusiasm? So, now it’s my turn to teach her, yes, we can incorporate some of it, but other parts of her fabulous chapter will go into a file titled “Little Darlings.” For future use.

I’m a pantser, she is a plotter, complementing each other, learning to adapt and adopt. I await my characters to lead me, she needs to know beforehand where she is going. Double axels don’t get perfected by dreaming about them. While I “stop to smell the roses” in my writing, she is already gathering bouquets. She is learning patience, and letting herself be drawn, trusting the process, meanwhile I am learning to “get to it.”

While we work, the generation gap ceases to exist.

Have you ever had, or contemplated having, a co-author, or other collaborative ventures? What was it like for you? Did you love it or hate it? Was it a struggle or a smooth ride joining hands, laughing all the way to The End? What did you learn from the experience?

- Mariette Mikó and Viktoria Mikó

What are you reading this week? I’m reading Sunset at Keyhole Canyon by Jesse Heyworth

When Thursday rolls around I know I have to come up with a subject that intrigues both readers and writers alike. That shouldn’t be so hard, should it? Well… Most writers are avid readers. This week summer is on my mind. I read all the time, but I read more in the summer. There’s nothing like sitting on a beach or the deck with a book in your hand. In the last couple of years the book I’m holding is an e-reader. I fought tooth and nail before I received one as a gift. Now I can’t live without it. No matter where I go, I have hundreds of books with me. And I love it.

How about you? Do  you have an e-reader? If so, which do you prefer, a book or the e-reader?

I love both! I still love the weight of the book in my hand. The smell of the freshly printed pages. With that said, I love the portability of my e-reader. Who knows what book I’ll want to read when I’m on a trip or at an appointment. This is where the e-reader comes in handy. I still buy paperback and hardcovers by my favorite authors though today I mostly buy e-books.

In my younger days, I collected various things. Things I now have to dust often. It’s the reason I started giving them away. I collect books now. Yes, I still  have to dust them but I’m enjoying them more than the statues.

Do you collect books? If so, who are your favorite authors and books?

Hi Readers. Today we’re spending time and getting to know the Author of, Spank Me Mr. Darcy, Lissa Trevor. Please help me make her feel welcome.

NOP: Tell us what inspires you.

Deadlines!  I work the fastest and I’m the most motivated when I have a due date.

NOP: When did you first consider yourself a writer?

When I was sixteen years old.  I wrote a Star Trek fan fiction novel and was busily finishing my Vietnam War story about two twin brothers.

NOP: What books have most influenced your life?

Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series, Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series, Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath’s Phoenix series

NOP: What book are you reading now?

A nonfiction book called Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.  It’s a very controversial novel because his co-author killed himself and he’s being investigated for misusing funds.  But no criminal charges were brought against him.  I think it’s just a case of he’s bad with money and accounting.  The stories he tells about Pakistan and the Koran are very interesting considering current world events.

NOP: How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?

I’ve written three books that will never see the light of day.  Spank Me, Mr. Darcy is my first completed book that I’m overjoyed to share with everyone.  It’s published by Riverdale Avenue Books and it’s an erotic Pride and Prejudice mash-up.

Now for some quickies.

Reading or TV? Reading unless Dr. Who, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Downton Abbey, or Glee is on.

Hand written letter or Homemade meal? Handwritten letter.  I can make my own homemade meal.

Swimming pool or Hot tubs? Hot tub!  With LUSH bath bombs!

Dog or Cat? I have a cat that sleeps under my left arm every night as I’m working.

Flowers or Chocolate? Flowers, unless it’s the really really good chocolate like Lindt or Godiva truffles

Steak or Lobster? Steak.  I don’t want to work so hard to get to the meat.

Satin or Lace? Satin if I’m wearing it.  Lace if I’m knitting it.

Hot or Cold? Cold so I can bundle up under a blanket.

Would you give us an excerpt?

Netherfield, infamous for its debauched parties of excess and luxury, has a new Master. 

After finagling an invitation to the ball, Elizabeth Bennet is introduced to the powerful and prideful Mr. Darcy, while her sister Jane has captivated the new owner, Mr. Bingley.  Having contented herself with the pleasurable caresses of her best friend, Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth is intrigued with the sensuality she finds at Netherfield. But it isn’t until her sister Jane is taken ill and Elizabeth stays at Netherfield to nurse her back to health that she finds the dungeons of Netherfield and the man in the black mask who becomes her Master.

By the time she leaves Netherfield, Elizabeth will have become disenchanted with her childhood playmate and obsessed with Mr. Darcy, her Master, who has told her that she would be more marriageable as a Netherfield submissive than as a curious virgin.  Elizabeth holds on to her affront at his callous regard for her until Charlotte marries Mr. Collins and Jane is discarded by Mr. Bingley.  Unwilling to save herself for a man who’ll make a good match and determined not to suffer Jane’s heartbreak, when she meets Mr. Darcy again at Rosings Park, she decides to become his slave and offers him her virginity.

But when she finds out that her cruel Master has destroyed Jane’s chance at marriage with Mr. Bingley, she rejects Mr. Darcy – even as he reluctantly proposes marriage to her. It isn’t until he saves her sister Lydia’s reputation and brings Jane and Bingley together, that Elizabeth realizes that she loves him. If he still loves her, she would be most willing to take her punishment for rejecting him – and live happily ever after.

Where can my readers get your book?

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Do you have a website?  http://lissatrevor.wordpress.com/

Lissa Trevor has her stilettos firmly entrenched in the romance community.  Spank Me Mr. Darcy is her debut novel from Riverdale Avenue Books.  She is a frequent reader at Manhattan’s Between The Covers events, where her novellas Wild Oats and Timelash from Coliloquy’s Entwined volumes 1 & 2 have been very popular.  Lissa also created an erotic story template for Coliloquy’s ValEntwined promotion that allowed readers to download a personalized ebook starring themselves and their significant other. You can find her at http://lissatrevor.wordpress.com/

Where can we find this book?

Spank Me, Mr. Darcy can be purchased at these fine locations:

My publisher is offering $3 off the book for a limited time, if you order from <a href=”http://riverdaleavebooks.com/books/36/spank-me-mr-darcy&#8221; title=”Riverdale Avenue Books”>Riverdale Avenue Books</a>.  Just put the code ROMANCE in when you check out.

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