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Mary Rosenblum
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Hello all!
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Welcome to our Professional
Connection interview with Janet Wellington.
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Back by popular demand, I might
add. Janet you are a very welcome guest here!
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Janet's latest two novels are
paranormal romances. FOREVER ROSE was a 2000 Prism finalist in the time
travel category and her new novel, DREAMQUEST, from Dorchester Love Spell,
is an "alternate reality" love story that features a Kumeyaay
Indian hero and a contemporary ethno-botanist heroine. DREAMQUEST is
available now and her newest release: Sweet On You will be out from
Thorndike Press in January 2006. Visit her website at: http://www.janetwellington.com
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Janet, start out by telling us
about the new book, please...the one due out in January!
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Janet Wellington
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Hi, everyone! The January book
is a reissue of the second book I sold
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called SWEET ON YOU. It's a
short contemporary about a woman who
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gives up the fast lane to open
her own gourmet cookie business
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called Celestial Cookies --
it's very cute, there's lots of chocolate
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and did I mention the
chocolate!!!???? The hero is the local DJ
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who doesn't want to utilize
her business for the Valentine's Day
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campaign. It's a hot one --
and there's chocolate!
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Mary Rosenblum
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Cool...this sounds like a
straightforward romance? Not paranormal, yes?
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Janet Wellington
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Yes, all romance!
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speckledorf
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There's no such thing as too
much chocolate:--)
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Janet Wellington
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I agree
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Mary Rosenblum
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So I noticed that it's in large
print? Why is that?
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Is that a separate edition?
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Janet Wellington
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Well, I got my rights back and
saw an opportunity to resell the story
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so I did!
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Mary Rosenblum
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Oh, cool! I thought the title
was familiar but I wasn't sure. Want to explain how this worked for our
audience?
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Janet Wellington
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Sure -- I had to write a
formal letter to the contracts department
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referencing my contract -- I
asked for both titles (with Kensington) and
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then got an official letter
back from them awarding my rights back
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which was part of my original
contract agreement. A friend
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had sold to Thorndike so she
gave me the contact name
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and I contacted them and
basically pitched both stories and they
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picked one (and might take the
other one in the Spring).
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Mary Rosenblum
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Want to tell us a bit about how
you got started writing?
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Janet Wellington
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I think my story is typical --
I've always loved to write
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but I never really thought I
could write a "whole book"
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I decided right around my 40th
birthday that if I was going to try it, it was time to get started!
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I researched A LOT and saw
that romance seemed to be the easiest to break into
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and joined Romance Writers of
America www.rwanational.org and the rest is history
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well, more accurately, the
rest was lots of hard work, going to conferences,
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educating myself on the genre
and the publishing industry, and writing and
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writing and writing. I'm still
learning, of course, and I believe
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you have to keep studying the
market and the industry in order to keep selling.
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Mary Rosenblum
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Hear, hear on that!
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roe
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Did you read a lot of romance
before you started to write it?
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Janet Wellington
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Honestly, no. I remember
getting a box of old Harlequins and thinking there
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was no way I could write them
-- then I took a Learning Annex class
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taught my author Diane
Pershing, and HER BOOKS WERE WONDERFUL!
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Filled with modern women --
imperfect characters solving their problems
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and falling in love. I knew I
could do it then! And
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I still don't read a lot of
romance -- I do analyze different lines, though, so I
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can understand what editors
are looking for as far as pacing and plotlines, etc.
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Mary Rosenblum
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And Janet has an article in
Writing Craft: Genres about analyzing romance;
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Analyzing
Romance
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Worth reading if you plan on
submitting to the publishers.
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roe
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So romance wasn't your first
love in reading so to speak?
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Janet Wellington
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Roe: nope. Though I have to
say that "happily ever after" is my cup of tea
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and I love romantic comedy
movies, so I guess I love romance in that way
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but I grew up reading Nancy
Drew and then I tended to read fantasy and SF.
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janecj333
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How did you sell your first
novel?
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Janet Wellington
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I still think it was a
miracle! Well, actually, here's what I did:
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I had written and tried to
sell a time travel romance--it "made the rounds" and didn't
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sell so I decided to try to
write a short contemporary. I studied the lines and
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heard that Kensington was
taking submissions. So I sent it out
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I heard back fairly quickly
(maybe a month) and the editor asked me
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to cut it (I write long) and I
did and she bought it! While that one was
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in production, I sent her a
proposal for another one (SWEET ON YOU) and
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she bought that one in about
24 hours! This is NOT the typical scenario
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but it gives you an idea that
"it can happen" if the story is right and
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your timing is right, and you
keep trying!
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cosmos
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How do you know if you are a
romance writer?
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Janet Wellington
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Okay, even though I've
explained that I didn't read a lot of romance
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I did fall in love with the
genre! You HAVE to love romance to write it.
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I really believe that --
readers can smell a fake! So, if you are drawn
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to writing about relationships
-- in this case, one man + one woman, then you
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might be a good fit for
romance. And the genre has so much diversity.
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With paranormals, futuristics,
Christian, action, suspense -- there's every flavor
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of romance out there...really!
So, I guess what I'm saying is that I love writing
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about how people solve their
problems; also about each character's personal
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journey -- how they learn
their life lesson and that opens up their ability to grow.
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My, I'm long winded tonight!
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Mary Rosenblum
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That's okay...you're saying
good things. :-)
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Janet Wellington
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Okay!
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roe
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Bet you were walking on cloud 9
when that novel sold.
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Janet Wellington
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Oh, yeah! There's nothing like
it -- and it still thrills me to think about it!
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roe
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Did you ever get your time
travel romance published?
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Janet Wellington
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Yes! It actually sold next - I
met with Cindy Hwang from Berkley at a Romance Writers of America
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national conference -- I had
an individual appointment with her.
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Talk about scary!!! But, I
pitched the story and she said "send it" -- I did
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and about 10 months later
there was a message on my
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answering machine from her
that she wanted it!!! That was on
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a Friday evening, so I spent
the whole weekend trying to find an agent
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to do the deal -- even though
it was "sold" I wanted the protection for the
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contract and for someone to
negotiate the deal. I did find someone by Wednesday the next week (I
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stalled the editor, saying I
was making final decisions on agents).
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So there was lots of FedExing
and we did the deal by the following Friday.
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It was all very exciting!
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Mary Rosenblum
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That's very cool....and I've
had Berkeley
contracts...you needed the agent! LOL
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Janet Wellington
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Yup!
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roe
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Those pitches are scary aren't
they?
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Janet Wellington
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Pitching is always scary for
me -- oh, I just finished teaching
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a "Pitch Perfect"
online class through Long Story Short School of Writing.
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That was sooooooooooooo fun!
I'll probably teach it again in January,
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so if anyone wants to check it
out, do so! Pitching is difficult and there
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is definitely a right and
wrong way to do it -- by doing what you need
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to do to figure out what to
say in a pitch, you also pinpoint if there
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is a problem in your story.
It's grueling, but so worth it!
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Mary Rosenblum
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It's like writing a very
succinct blurb, isn't it?
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Janet Wellington
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Kind of -- though the editors
want to know the ending
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and I guess I think of a blurb
as a "tease" -- designed to entice you to
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ask for more. Hey, maybe we
could do a chat on pitching sometime?
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Mary Rosenblum
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I was just thinking that. :-)
I'll email you open dates!
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Janet Wellington
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Ok!
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Mary Rosenblum
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I guess I was thinking more in
terms of a synopsis of blurb length.
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Janet Wellington
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Right. A story blurb, then (I
was thinking back cover blurb).
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roe
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That's a great idea, I look
forward to it.
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Janet Wellington
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And, yes, getting your story
whittled down is essential for query letters, etc.
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Mary Rosenblum
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We will definitely do it right
after Christmas.
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sailor
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Why did you see an agent for the
time travel book and not the earlier ones?
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Janet Wellington
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Good question....the first two
books had "flat rate" contracts --
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they were a
"special" deal between WalMart and Kensington.
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The books were called Precious
Gems. So there was no need for
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an agent for them! No
royalties, just a flat rate for the advance.
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But, for Berkley (and later
for Dorchester; my next time travel) I really
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felt vulnerable -- I wanted to
make sure my rights were protected
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because EVERY contract from a
publishing house is going to
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benefit the publishing house
and not necessarily be the
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best deal for the author. I
wanted to keep my dramatic rights, for example,
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and I wanted more than the
minimum of "free author books" for marketing
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purposes...that's probably my
favorite accomplishment...I kept asking for
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more books if we "gave
up" something -- I ended up with 75 free books! Heh heh.
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Mary Rosenblum
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Oooh, that's a nice number.
I'll have to suggest that to Martha, my agent.
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Janet Wellington
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I know...it's amazing they
went for it!
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Mary Rosenblum
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Sayre asked earlier if you have
to be an established writer to join the RWA... that's a good place to learn
the business isn't it?
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Janet Wellington
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I always explain that I
learned EVERYTHING I know about the romance
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genre from RWA -- they are
amazing and the thing is, it's an organization that
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shares and educates. I sold 3
years after I joined (prior to that
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I had been seriously writing
on my own for a year). You can join the organization
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and take advantage of merely
getting the monthly magazine! And then
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there are the conferences --
that's where you can really ramp up your education!
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I had never written anything
longer than a short story or a term paper
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and, again, I really listened
and learned and tried to emulate the
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successful authors I met
through RWA!
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roe
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Did you join your local RWA
group also?
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Janet Wellington
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Yes -- I joined both the San Diego and the Orange County chapters at
the same time
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as the national -- so, It's a
little pricey to get going, but it was so worth it!
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Now I live in Oregon and there's
no nearby chapters -- I miss the meetings
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and the energy of other
writers! You can go to www.rwanational.org and
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search for what's available in
your area.
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roe
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Do you still have the same agent?
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Janet Wellington
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My agent and I parted ways
after DREAMQUEST (4th book) and I'm actively
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looking -- I have some
proposals out with a couple agents right now.
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We parted ways amicably -- she
never really LOVED my stuff (my
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stories were just not what she
really liked); she has since retired
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to be a full-time mom. She was
great -- so honest, and her follow-through
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was amazing; very organized
and communicative -- so, it was a good experience!
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marly
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How long did it take you to
write your first novel?
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Janet Wellington
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I think about a year -- I
didn't keep track and I was working full-time and
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really struggling with what I
was doing. For the short contemporaries, though
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I think it was more like a few
months. I am fine-tuning my method all the time to
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try and make things go more
smoothly and more quickly!
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janecj333
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Did you write fantasy/sf short
stories and have prior publications when you made your first novel sale?
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Janet Wellington
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Nope. I know...a lot of people
do try short stories first -- but, again, with romance
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you don't have to be published
in order to break in. Now, I had always
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written in my job -- various
jobs -- I always was the one who did the newsletter
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or wrote articles or
instructional pieces, etc. So, I've always written
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but never much fiction!
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Mary Rosenblum
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That's actually true for all
the genres. Book publishers claim that short story readers don't real
novels. Short publications are nice, but not at all necessary.
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lapart
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When creating characters do you
already know their background?
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Janet Wellington
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I love working on characters
and think it's probably the most
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important part of how I get
ready to write something new.
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If I don't know my characters
well enough, I always get "stuck" with the
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writing. Sometimes I write
pages and pages of what is called backstory.
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What that is, is the made-up
history -- the past that the characters
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have that make them act and
react the way they do in the story you're writing.
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So, I guess I mostly decide
that up front (though there are always surprises
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along the way -- new ideas pop
into my head or a new "old" experience of
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the character sort of shows up
and I begin to understand them better.
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Does that make sense?
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Mary Rosenblum
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I think it does. :-)
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sayre
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Are all your novels based on
fantasy or are some based on your real life experiences?
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Janet Wellington
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My first two were short
contemporary (meaning present day modern) stories
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and my next two were time
travels with paranormal elements.
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I like to write both!
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babbles
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Thanks for the character advice.
I feel much about the way I write. That's what happens to me too. :-)
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Janet Wellington
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Oh, I'm realizing I need to
back up a minute.
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The previous question, I
think, was actually whether my own experiences
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enter into the stories....so,
I'm going to say that my belief
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is that writers bring
themselves to their writing -- that there are always
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somewhat autobiographical
"stuff" there -- whether it's how we relate to
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people or the way we grew
up...well, maybe we're influenced by it all
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and I think our
"souls" sneak into the writing -- but, it's all fictional stuff
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though I do imagine my
villains as some of the "men who done me wrong" and I
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do like to send them to jail
or kill them off! heh heh.
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Okay, back to characters....yes,
because the way I write is what is called
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"character driven"
as opposed to "plot driven" (think here: action adventure
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and mystery and detective,
etc.), characterization is so important!
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sayre
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Thank you for answer that last
question. I think you just unblocked my writers block.
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Mary Rosenblum
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Cool!
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Janet Wellington
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wow!
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sayre
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How did you deal with people
around you telling you that you were wasting your time writing?
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Janet Wellington
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Oh, man...I guess I was lucky
because I didn't have that --
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I have a very supportive
husband and parents who made me
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believe I could do anything I
really set my mind to doing
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So, I guess what comes to mind
as an answer
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is "write if you have to
write" -- whether it sells or not! Writing is
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very therapeutic and there are
some people who will never sell, but
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they will learn to write
something that they love -- maybe self-publishing
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their work or just doing the
writing will be enough. I guess I
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don't put much value on anyone
trying to tell me I'm wasting my time.
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Mary Rosenblum
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That's a very civilized answer,
Janet. :-) I am much less civilized.
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Janet Wellington
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Ha!
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Mary Rosenblum
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Here's a kudos for you, Janet.
:-) You have quite the fan club. And deserve it.
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babbles
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I have to leave but I wanted to
let Janet know that thanks to her encouragement months ago through personal
contact, I never gave up and hopefully have a sale in my near future.
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Janet Wellington
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Oh, wow! I want to know more,
so I hope babbles emails me with the juicy details!
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sayre
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This isn't a question but more
of a statement, thank you for what you have said in the last two answers
that you gave: I've just found out some somber medical news about myself
and my writing gets me through it. You helped me clear me head and get to
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a place where I could finish my
latest assignment.
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Janet Wellington
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Wonderful...yes, writing is
healing -- there's something so
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special about the process...I
think it's what keeps me sane
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in this insane world. Good
luck to you and feel free to email me
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if you ever need a pep talk:
mail@janetwellington.com
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Mary Rosenblum
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That's very generous of you,
Janet.
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Janet Wellington
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That's for all -- I mean it!
Just let me know we met here.
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lapart
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Did you have a lot of expenses,
publishing?
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Mary Rosenblum
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Lapart asked this when you were
talking about selling to Berkeley, but I couldn't get it up then.
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Janet Wellington
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Hmm...I'm not sure I'm
following you
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Can you elaborate, please?
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Mary Rosenblum
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Were you asking about paying
agents or publishers, lapart?
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lapart
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agents
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Mary Rosenblum
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aha...time for the agent caveat,
Janet!
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Janet Wellington
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Oh, well, you don't pay agents
-- they keep 15% of anything the writer gets...forever!
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Mary Rosenblum
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In other words, Lapart, they
only make money when YOU make money.
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Janet Wellington
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I, for one, would avoid any
agent who charged a reading fee of any kind.
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You sometimes pay a "book
doctor" to read and critique your work if.
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you feel that you need help
polishing it or analyzing your work
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and I actually have been doing
line editing and critiquing on the side.
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You can read about this on my
website (and what is typically
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charged for this type of
work), but agents don't normally charge for this!
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Mary Rosenblum
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You can also check on the
Association of Artist's Representatives' homepage for answers to agent
questions.
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http://www.aar-online.org
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This is the agents'
professional association and it has a code of ethics...including NO reading
fees!
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They have a great FAQ page.
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Janet Wellington
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Yes, be careful.
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speckledorf
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When building the world for your
characters...how much do you know before you start writing?
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Janet Wellington
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Okay.....long answer ahead.
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Mary Rosenblum
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We're ready. :-)
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Janet Wellington
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Let's start with fantasy world
building.
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I am working on a fantasy
story (a young adult story) and
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I did about 3 months of
research and world building before I
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even started plotting the
story! Yikes! Did I have to do this?
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Maybe not, but I was creating
a very complex world
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and you really do need to know
the "rules" of your world
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in order to make it
believable. As I recall, one of the first things I did was
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make a map of my world (it is
an island, actually) -- so I got out graph paper
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and started just messing around
and creating where mountains were
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and streams and kingdoms, etc.
There is a great site I wanted to mention.
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http://hollylisle.com
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Anyway
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there is a great article by
Holly Lisle on Maps that you might want to check out!...
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It's really fun! So, creating
a physical world is just one aspect,
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but in fantasy or science
fiction, I think you need to do that work first.
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Now, in "regular"
stories, some of that still happens! For instance,
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in my time travel FOREVER ROSE
-- the setting was 1888 San Diego
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in the Gaslamp Quarter; I
found old maps and used them.
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I created some fictional
storefronts and a brothel, but I put them
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on the actual streets of the
era! I personally like the details.
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But, no matter what, your
setting needs to be clear and you need to always
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remember to describe the
setting (your world) realistically and clearly
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and try to always use the five
senses whether it's a fantasy or a "real" story.
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Mary Rosenblum
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Those five senses are very
important. Most novice writers use about two...sight and hearing. :-)
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Any tips on how to incorporate
the rest?
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Janet Wellington
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Yes! Okay, I've prepared an
exercise for you all to do (later)
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Here's what I want you to do.
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Pick a setting to describe and
ONLY describe it visually (it can
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be a real place or a
fictionalized place).
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THEN, describe it again, but
this time incorporate sound...revise and rewrite.
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THEN, describe it this time
adding smell.
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THEN, describe it using taste.
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Now, describe it using touch.
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Put it all together --
certainly you'll not use every single thing, but try
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to come up with that setting
description that utilizes something
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from each of your exercises --
compare your first one (the visual only
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one) to the final version and
you should see a huge difference!
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Mary Rosenblum
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That's an excellent exercise,
Janet. I'll have to add that to my portfolio of workshop exercises!
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Janet Wellington
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Sure!
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Want another?
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Mary Rosenblum
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You bet.
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Janet Wellington
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Okay -- I went to a workshop
given by author Sylvia Mendoza.
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and she was teaching about
alliteration...you, know: using the same
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letter...like Rusty Roy Rocked
the Rowboat.
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Anyway, she suggested using
alliteration to describe a setting
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something like: the house was
horrible, hinting at henous acts. Oh,
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man...I gotta stop watching so
much CSI!
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Mary Rosenblum
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LOL
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Janet Wellington
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Ha! Anyway -- it's just a
creativity thing -- it
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gets your writing juices
flowing in a different way (and you can also
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use it to describe your hero
and heroine -- picking alliterative adjectives).
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Mary Rosenblum
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That's interesting.
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Janet Wellington
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It is .
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Mary Rosenblum
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You sure don't want to overdo
it on the page, though.
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Janet Wellington
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Yeah.
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What I wanted to add.
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was that it's an exercise --
but, with that said, if you start looking
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for it in books, you'll see it
used just enough....you'll start to see
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it in what I call the
"pretty sentences." AND, it's more the internal
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alliteration that sounds nice
to our ears...like: Claire found a pair
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of trousers in there (the
"air" sound).
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It's kind of poetic, hm?
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And
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you don't want to create
tongue twisters on the page, so
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don't misunderstand me -- but
it's a fun exercise!
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Mary Rosenblum
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Well, there really is a music
to prose, isn't there? I know I choose certain words because they sound
better in the sentence or maintain the rhythm.
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Janet Wellington
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Absolutely!
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aurora1
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Thanks, I'm writing a fantasy
story on an island myself.
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Janet Wellington
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Oh, cool! How far are you?
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aurora1
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Just a lot of ideas running
around, will research more now.
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Janet Wellington
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Let me give you all some book
recommendations...
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Orson Scott Card's "How
to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy"
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The Writers Complete Fantasy
Reference -- Writers Digest Books
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For Middle Ages type settings:
"Everyday Life in the Middle Ages" by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
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Mary Rosenblum
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And for SF writers Steve Gillette’s
World Building.
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Get your planets right.
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janecj333
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What can you tell us about
details like the cover art, paper quality, typeface choices...from your
experience?
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Janet Wellington
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Well, new writers have
absolutely no say in cover art -- I've
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been very lucky and pretty
much liked all my covers! Paper quality --
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I guess it's whatever they're
using at the moment in the publishing house.
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And typeface -- again,
whatever they're using. The only new typeface size
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I've seen is in Harlequin's
NEXT line -- more space between the lines and a
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little bit bigger -- they are
appealing to "older" readers 35-55 or so.
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Mary Rosenblum
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The big publishers have a book
design department...part of the art department. Pretty much off limits to
us, alas.
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speckledorf
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My NaNo novel is a fantasy set
on island world also. The Holly Lisle map article was VERY helpful.
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Janet Wellington
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Oh, good for you for doing NaNo
-- I'm failing miserably right now (for
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those who don't know --
November is Novel month and we're
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supposed to be completing
50,000 words by the last day of the month)
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and I haven't posted my
numbers 'cause they're so low
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but, I digress...do you want
to talk about fantasy names?
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Mary Rosenblum
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Let me give you one craft
question from lapart and then, yes please, let's talk about fantasy names.
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lapart
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Can the setting and theme be
different in a chapter?
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Janet Wellington
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I'm not sure what you mean,
exactly, but if you're asking
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if you can change settings
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