casualkvm.blogg.se - Secondary Characters by Rachel Schieffelbein

She grew up on a steady diet of Muppet movies and renaissance faires. As well as being a great editor, she is an author of fantasy tales such as Hapenny Magick.Jennifer Carson lives in New Hampshire with her husband, four sons and many furred and feathered friends.

You can visit her at her blog: The Dragon Charmer. Jennifer is a dream editor, supportive and caring about her authors with a good ear for fine tuning a story. Jennifer was my editor for the steampunk anthology, Real Girls Don’t Rust. Now that I have given you a peek at my creative process, let me introduce the two fellow authors who will be moving the author blog hop forward in November. It’s great to have a perfect opening, but eventually you have to let go and write the rest of the story. I can get trapped refining and editing a scene and never move on to the next one.

What is the hardest part about writing? For me the hardest part is to silence the perfectionist.

I love fantasy and nature and finding the ‘magic’ in the most mundane things. Real life items get thrown into the pot to be simmered down with imagination and come out reinvented. I write the kind of stories that I love to read.

Why do you write what you do? I’ve always been a prolific reader.

At 14 he should appeal to middle grade readers, although his hard life has forced him to ‘grow up’ fast.

How does it differ from other works in the genre? Steampunk stories are generally geared for a YA audience, but the protagonist in my novel is a bit younger.

One of the lead characters had an unusual occupation as a boy and I decided to explore that occupation with a new character in a novel. The idea came from a bit of back story in my short story My Dangerous Heart.

What are you currently working on? At the moment I am working on a middle grade steampunk story.

Please hop back and visit her blog, The Story Teller’s Scroll, after you spend a short time with me.

Gayle is a prolific author with an entertaining blog of her own. I was invited to participate in the blog hop by my great friend and critique buddy Gayle Krause. But before I run off to greet the ghouls and goblins at my door, it’s time to join the author blog hop. Stormy winds are stirring and getting ready for a howling good evening. It’s Halloween and what better day for an author to hop into the woods.