Thea’s Comments (group member since Nov 10, 2011)

Thea’s comments from the Connecting Readers and Writers group.

I suppose it's too late to jump in on this, but if not, I'd be happy to participate. I've designed my own covers mostly. I did have someone design one for me, but it just didn't match the genre that I was writing in good enough for me to keep it.

I recently started using a professional editor but before that I had a variety of people read through it for me. Because I have to use voice recognition software for almost everything I do, the software often miss recognizes things I say and sometimes I don't get them caught in time.

I often get people to read through it for me, some people that I trust that read in the genre I'm writing .

I'm currently using my cell phone to respond to this, and I'm not sure what the other questions were. I don't have a good enough memory. Grin.

Diana wrote: "If they've been out and I know the author, I'll buy all three. If I haven't read the author before, I'll buy the first one (thiw as before half.com) and then, if I like it, buy the next two. It's..."


OH! I LOVED the Merlin series. I must go see if it's on Kindle. I'd love to read it again. thanks for the reminder

Gracious.

I lurk here from time to time, but I'm not sure I've introduced myself.

I'm a reader and an author. I have widespread tastes: everything from vampire fiction to literary fiction, from recipes to shampoo bottles. grin.

I have a black lab I adore, whose greeting for me after work each day rubs away all the bad stuff.

Hmm. what else?

I live in Canada in a rural community dependent on fishing as a mainstay. Husband was a lobster fisherman until last year.

I blog and spend too much time on Pinterest and fB for my own good.

I look forward to meeting a few of you

Elle wrote: "I have heard a lot of discussions about book trailers lately. Since I come to writing by way of the film industry, I thought I would give my two cents about how to do them correctly. I also put up..."

great trailers. These work because they really really are the true essence of a trailer. They look like movies.

hard to build something like this as an indie. I wonder if there are resources for video like there is for photos? There must be....now you've got me thinking.

I did do a sort of trailer...but not. It was a fun little video using extranormal characters.

Feel free to check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBqye3...

cool. I'll try to tweet that for ya!

Really? wow. I'm both thrilled and honoured. How is Being Human coming along sales wise

Rattling Bones is a collection of short stories with a dark edge. Meant for the chicklit reader who likes her fiction a little dark in places, it has a distinct literary flavor. The ideal reader doesn't mind a death or two and she certainly doesn't mind a few 'bad words' or adult situations.

It's just 1.99 for Amazon Kindle

Well, in a nutshell: I'm both reader and writer, like most writers I know. I'll read anything from True Blood (which I'm reading now) to Game of Thrones to Hunger Games to absolutely anything by Joyce Carol Oates or Alice Munro.

I have wide tastes and I'm never sure what will stick.

As a writer, I tend toward anything that lets me explore character.

Hey Patricia! thanks so much for mentioning Anomaly. Your review made me smile for days and still does when I go to read it for a pickmeup.

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