Author of Historical & Literary Fiction
Do you like the cover for Five Fathoms Beneath? It doesn’t matter what you think? It matters what I think? Well, I *love* my cover. Being a photographer, I’m a *very* visual person, so I was both excited and nervous to work with a cover designer. I ended up choosing Tim Barber of Dissect Designs…
Title: Sea of Memories Author: Fiona Valpy Buy it on Amazon (available in paper and Kindle). I read this novel with my Kindle Unlimited subscription when it came up as a suggested title. It’s not normally the type of book I’d pick up on my own, but once I started reading the…
This young, and rather rumpled, green heron was most definitely *not* amused by me.
Although my novel mostly uses fictionalized versions of real places and entirely fictional places (there is no Stirling University or Mercer Medical Center, and these places are not deliberately intended to invoke any real place), a pivotal scene in my novel plays out on the Hope Memorial Bridge, known locally as the Lorain Carnegie Bridge.…
The best advice I found, which unfortunately I can’t relocate right now to link to, on how to write a blurb for literary fiction: focus on the weirdest aspect of your story. Well, I didn’t choose to do that in my blurb, but just in case that’s what sells literary fiction here it is: My…
Title: Moontide Author: Charlie German Buy it on Amazon. (Available for Kindle.) In a nutshell: Moontide is a well-written, quick-paced, action/paranormal romance set in Alaska with likable hero/heroine and delightfully evil villains. So I must admit this is my first paranormal romance. It’s not a genre I’d even tried before, so I wasn’t quite sure what…
I thought it would be fun to do a Wordle for Five Fathoms Beneath. What’s a Wordle you ask? A Wordle is “a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.” It gives more emphasis to words that appear more commonly in a piece of text or manuscript. I entered the entire manuscript…
I always loved when Snoopy did his “Fierce Vulture” persona in the Peanuts comicstrip. Here’s a young green heron doing his impression of “Fierce Vulture.”
I’ve been collecting book covers on a Pinterest board to send to my cover designer. Check out some of the cool covers I’ve collected by visiting my board. 🙂