My Muse's Musings

I have a dilemma.  My cover artist Tracy Stewart did two different covers for my print edition of Breaking Through. I need your help in deciding which to use. So, please vote for cover 1 or cover 2 and let me know.  Cover 1 Cover 2 I know there isn't much difference between them.  The differences are the placement of the tag line. the second cover has more red in the background and the image is a little larger.  I'd really like to hear your opinion. Teresa R.

I finished my book on Thursday.  Breaking Through is finished. And I had a wonderful group of ladies at my crit group, Lethal Ladies, who have gone over every chapter. They weeded through some of the little stuff like missing commas and extra quotation marks and addressed sentences that might need restructuring.  Even formatting issues. And now the editor has it. And I'm in waiting mode. The high you get after you finish a book is unbelievable. It's the culmination of months and months of work. In my case, seven and a half months. You've put other things you've wanted to do on hold. You've allowed your house to GROW into a cluttered wreck. You've made excuses to family and friends about accepting invitations. All because you are obsessed with your imaginary characters and your story. (Or at least that's my process.) And now it's done. And you get that rush of excitement and satisfaction because you've accomplished something monumental....

Uploading a book to Amazon, or any publishing site, is a nerve racking experience. It doesn't matter if you have a wonderful, clean, well-edited document to upload. Just waiting for the process to finish, and agonizing over the possibilities of something going wrong, is enough to cause you to bite your fingernails down to the quick, grind your teeth down to the gum line, and sprout gray hair in a matter of moments. But maybe it's just me. The book I was reuploading is Timeless. I've added a Table of Contents and an epilogue. So if you bought the ebook be sure to go download the latest volume.   Timeless And I'm posting the epilogue here on my blog for those of you who can't wait and want to read it now.  If you haven't read the book, this epilogue holds spoilers so be forwarned. Read on, Teresa J. Reasor  Epilogue Regan glanced at her watch and pushed the dentist pick and brush she’d been using into the painter’s apron tied about...

The Poetry and Music of Voice  by Teresa Reasor The voice of fiction sings to the reader as clearly as any vocalist who croons a melody.  But just as a choir is made up of a variety of strong and pure, or thin and reedy voices, so are the voices that speak through the written word. Voice speaks through the devices of plot, character, dialogue, description, tone, style, pacing, and theme.  But how?  Wanting to strengthen my own voice, I decided to find out.  I chose three writers who have distinctive, strong voices:  Joanne Rock, Catherine Mann, and JoAnn Ross.   All three are contemporary writers.  All three have voices that sing on the page. In her rereleased September 2010, Harlequine, Blaze, Sex and the Single Girl, Joanne Rock’s turns of phrase jump off the page with an energy that’s natural and inherently part of her voice. Every sentence is constructed to convey a story within a story. Real life collided with ...

Last night I was on Edin Road Radio and had a blast talking about my books. Jessee V. Coffee the wonderful woman who hosts the show is a friend and is really supportive of authors. This month is Kentucky Indie Writer Month on her show. I read the Prologue from Breaking Through my current about to be completed book. It will be released the end of August the first of September.   I had an absolute blast on Edin Road and will be back in November just to talk and possibly revisit Breaking Through since it will be out by then. Jessee let me talk like a house on fire, God Bless her. Bet she didn't count on me talking like that when I get nervous. I'm hoping next time I'll be a little more relaxed. If you'd like to listen to the radio interview just click on the link below. Edin Road Radio  Below is a copy of the blog Edin Radio posted on their blog site.  Hope you enjoy it. Writing About Heroes My Dad was my hero. He was a Marin...

I have my cover!!!! It's beautiful. And it follows the theme of the first one just wonderfully!!! Here it is. I'm doing a happy dance!! Teresa R.

I'm going to be doing a radio spot at Edinroad on August 2, 2012 at 6:30 Eastern Time. I'm a little nervous, but I'm sure Jessee Coffee, Radio Host Extraordinaire and Ms. Personality Plus, will make it easy for me. Jessee is great fun and she's been doing this for a while. Obviously I haven't.  But I'm going to give it my best shot. So if you'd like to listen to an excerpt of Breaking Through, my latest Work In Progress, due out tentative date the end of August the first of September, I'd love for you to stop by and check it out. I'll be reading excerpts and talking about my other books and how this story ties into the first book. This is the second book of the SEAL Team Heartbreakers Series.  http://www.edinroad.com/radio   What happens when a Navy SEAL wakes from a month-long coma to discover he’s being investigated for murder? Ensign Brett Weaver knows he’s innocent, but how can he prove it with Naval Inves...