Just a reminder that I’ll be chatting at the Barnes and Noble Romance Book Club today. The lovely cover of Madame Mirabou is prominently featured on the opening page. (I still want to go live in that cover shot.)
Come visit if you have time!
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I am not a natural synopsis writer. That’s just not how my process works–laying out the bones and then working from there to add muscle and flesh and clothing. It always seems to me that the girls in the basement collect a basket of intriguing bits and pieces and leave it to me [...] I carried A Moveable Feast with me on the long flight to Philly this weekend. To be quite honest, I carried it more out of a sense of duty, that I should get it read for another project that has been brewing rather than any sense of passionate desire to read it. Not [...] Elena has packed her bags and headed out into the world. I’m left here in my office, packing up the mess she left behind. Weird that all those months and months of scribbling and mapping and brainstorming should result in this box of drafts (four, more or less) and files and notebooks, large [...] Now the terror sets in. Rewriting. Time to move from artist mind to critical mind. It always stuns me slightly, to reach the end, as if each book is a somehow eternal project. Here I am, the journey nearly done. There is the collage (which I still love as a creation unto itself) and [...] This morning at 9:30, I finally made it to the end of the draft. It is a whole book. 459 pages this moment, though that will change a bit. Because of the way I write, polishing and easing and rewriting (a lot) as I go, what remains is aligning and putting in chapter breaks [...] I keep thinking I must be almost done with this book, but like some funhouse tunnel, it suddenly stretches out again. Eating weird things. Yesterday, sesame crackers were the food of choice. And sprouted brown rice bowls because they’re easy and fast and nutritious. It is so important to eat nutritiously on this [...]
"Fur, feathers, farts and scales! What a marvelous presentation of romantical dragons, showing off for the ladies of their choice, happenstance or traditional. A very good collection for all hungry draconphiles, aka dragonlovers. Well written, stylish and above all inventive, Dragon Lovers is sure to please readers of all ages."-Anne [...] The second part of the interview at WRITER UNBOXED is up, if you’re interested. I’m excerpting this paragraph not because I am so brilliant but because I’d like to talk more about the definition of romance. Q: Do you have an opinion regarding the definition of romance? BS: I wish it could be [...] A snowy Saturday. (Surprise! That’s five in a row if anyone is counting.) The installers came to put in the new window. I cooked. Because, well, that seems to be what I do these days. I cook to write and write and cook and then write some more. First, a velvety chicken stock [...] |
Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including Rita Award Winning THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS and THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING. Her newest book HOW TO BAKE A PERFECT LIFE is available NOW!
A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television. |
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