BY KAT MARTIN Since my new book, THE CONSPIRACY, Chase Garrett and Harper Winston’s story, is set in Texas, I thought it might be fun to talk about one of my favorite places. There is something special about Texas. My husband and I lived in Houston for a couple of months one summer and it […]
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Listening to my Characters
BY KAT MARTIN No question, writing dialogue in a novel can be tricky. Each character has a unique voice distinct from the others in the book. Since I’ve never been particularly good at description, letting the characters tell the story is my favorite way to craft a novel.
MINING FOR STORIES
BY KAT MARTIN All year long I search for new and interesting stories. Each year, they seem more elusive. November 1st, WAIT UNTIL DARK, a digital novella will be released. It’s a prequel, and introduction to my Maximum Security series that starts with THE CONSPIRACY, out January 22nd. As I worked to come up with […]
A Little Time At The Beach
BY KAT MARTIN Everyone loves the beach. Though I live in Montana, I’m fortune to spend my winters at the beach in sunny California. My writing space looks out on a boat channel that leads to the harbor so I watch the tide go up and down several times a day. A bicycle-ride away, a […]
A Party to Remember
BY KAT MARTIN Since my hero in BEYOND DANGER, Beau Reese, is a mega rich playboy, a once-famous race car driver, I thought it might be fun to write about a mega-wealthy party I got invited to a few years back. Well, more than a few, considering it was a millennium party celebrating the thousand […]
GEEK GOES MAINSTREAM
BY CATHY YARDLEY I’ve been a geek since way back in the day. We had one of the first PC’s on the block (yeah, I’m dating myself here) and I knew how to code in BASIC before the fifth grade. I remember early bulletin boards. I was into comic books, science fiction, fantasy; I watched […]
My Tribute to Heath
BY ANYA SUMMERS One of the steps in my writing process has always been to use an actor or model as a frame of reference for my heroes and heroines. I’m a visual person and when I write, I tend to see the scenes play out as if I was viewing a movie in my […]
Unsung Heroes
BY ANYA SUMMERS When I was first approached about participating in the Hero Undercover Anthology, what stuck out for me was that this would be a chance for me to give back. You see each author involved is donating their royalties earned on this set to a charitable organization of their choosing. There is one […]
Plotting a Trilogy
BY KAT MARTIN When the idea came to me for a book set in Texas, I knew immediately I wanted to write more than one. Texas is such a vast and interesting place with limitless possibilities. In BEYOND REASON, the first book in what turned into my Texas Trilogy, multi-millionaire, Lincoln Cain, was a character […]
Superpowers
BY MAGGIE GALLAGHER Speed, strength, immortally, shifter, magic, genetic modifications, and more. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be gifted with some type of superpower? I certainly have. Our society has examined this mythos in film, on television, in comic books, and novels. The phrase “Faster than a speeding bullet” first […]