My Muse's Musings

Jane Greenhill writes wonderful YA books about an alien named Oas.  She knows this character so well I sometimes think that Jane herself might be from Zorka Twenty-Three.  I Was A Teenage Alien has just been released and she has two more books in the series that will be out this year. As well as other projects.   I Was A Teenage Alien    INTERVIEW:   1. Tell us what inspired your story?   In a small town in Canada, there was an E Coli outbreak from contaminated water, and I got the idea of an alien coming to earth and saving the town.   2. Describe your heroine and tell us a little about her.   Oas, is a teenage girl from Zorca-twenty-three.   Some things are universal, like annoying siblings, what to wear, hair issues and a mother who she believes favours her siblings over her.   3.Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?   No matter where you’re...

On February 23, 2013 I will be participating with a six other romance writers on a Romance Author's panel and will be answering questions about the process of writing romance and everything else that goes into it.  The panel runs from 2:00 to 5:00.  And we'll all be there signing our books.  We'd love a good turn out!!!! My fellow writers who will be there are Tiffany Reisz, Kathleen Brooks, Hallee Bridgeman, Donna McDonald, Maddie James, Robyn Peterman , and of course yours truly-- Teresa Reasor. Hope to see all you wonderful readers there!!! Thanks, Teresa Reasor 

Recently I joined forces with a wonderful bunch of ladies to create a sampler of first chapters of our published books to promote our writing. With the KIW Sampler you get a taste of different genres, of different voices, and different story lines.   If you're interested in downloading it for free you can go to http://edinroad.com/KIWsampler1.html It's also available at Amazon and is FREE there as well .    The sampler contains the first chapters of each of these authors: Hayden Braeburn ---   Hot Erotic Romance--- Fight For Me Hallee Bridgeman --- Edg y Inspirational Romance --- Emerald Fire   Diane Strong --- Hi tchc ockian Suspense --- Out and Back Amy Durham --- Twi - better Young Adult ---   Once Again   Jesse Coffey --- Quirky Paranormal --- Salt Of The Earth   Katherine Lowry Logan --- American Hi storical Timetravel--- The Ruby Brooch   Kallypso Master s --- Military Erotic Romance --- No...

Recently I returned to a reader's list I was a member of on amazon some time back. I went there as a reader, not as an author.  I always enjoy trolling the lists and seeing what books readers are discussing.  There was even one list that I checked in on to make certain no one was trashing my book as they were doing several other---much better known authors. I cringe every time I think of that. But I did learn the habits writers get into that set readers off and thus learned what not to do in my own writing. I've actually laughed out loud at some of the things posted and thanked God I'd never put them in my books. I wasn't laughing when I suddenly became the object of a reader's hostility. Self promotion is not permitted by Amazon, except in the Meet Our Authors forum. Link to the rules on Amazon These are what they are. What should I post? Please share thoughts that you think will add to the discussion and help other customers interested in the pr...

I was challenged by Robyn Peterman   and Jennifer Madden to participate in this blog hop. And of course I had to do it because I love to blog. Robyn's Book   How Hard Can It Be? is due out January 17, 2013. But it's already available for preorder if you'd like to check it out. And Jennifer's newest The Embattled Road just hit Amazon and other stores a couple of weeks ago.   The Next Big Thing 1. What is the working title of your book? Breaking Away.    2.Where did the idea come for the book? I love military guys and the idea for the series first hit me three years ago. Since my Dad was in the Marines I knew how military guys behaved and had some idea how they thought and hid how they felt. I wanted other people to understand what their families went through when they were deployed home, injured, doing training---the works. I wrote the first book, Breaking free   and started submitting it to editors while I finished another...

In one week I will have finished teaching my last college class and I am so excited!! Teaching can be rewarding and challenging, but my writing is where my heart is. And I'm really looking forward to devoting my time completely to my next book, Breaking Away. When I'm writing I'm neck deep in my character's world and at this moment my character is learning to drop out of sight and survive off the radar, something I had to do a ton of research for him to do. I feel as though I've done that myself for the three last months because of the classes. As soon as they end, and I post my grades, I'll be jumping feet first into the story and writing 10 hours a day. Butt on chair--fingers on keyboard. That's the only way to make headway. Here's my blurb for Breaking Away: --> When Navy SEAL Harold "Flash" Carney agrees to act as an undercover operative for the FBI in an international smuggling sting, he revisits a past he hoped to leave ...

  Writing Timeless my Cross Genre-Paranormal- Science Fiction book Timeless I’m quickly learning that writing things out of the norm makes it difficult to sell books. My book Timeless sold 442 copies in the month of October.   And I’m proud of that. It’s a book that took me three years and a trip to Scotland to write. And I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever written. But it hasn’t sold as well as my Navy SEAL romances. I know that military romance is BIG. And I love my Navy SEALs. They’re all alpha, macho, tough hot, and OMG handsome ---well you get the gist.   But Quinn Douglas is all those things and then some. He works in a specialized, very dangerous field of deep salvage diving. He plays the flute in his off weeks, because when you are saturated to a specific depth you usually work up to a month living inside the pot and going down as deep as you’re saturated. In my minds eye he’s Gerard Butler mixed with a little Adrian P...