I've been blogging all over creation about my new release, THE DEVILISH MONTAGUE, so my wee little fingers are weary. That's my excuse for not stopping by here more often!
And now I have another release or re-release or whatever you'd like to call it. Bookviewcafe will be releasing DENIM AND LACE in association with historical fiction week on Tuesday. BVC sells both epub and mobi format, so it's far easier for me to link my books to them than to every other distributor under the sun. Besides, they're good people and friends, and I trust them more than distributors I can't talk to everyday. So if you want to see one of my westerns, an older Rita finalist, hop over and take a look.
You see what constant promo blogs do to me? I'd only meant to stop by and mention my next pet peeve, cut from my own books as I edit for digitalization. Tell me how many ways this partial sentence is wrong (from TEXAS LILY): Before reaching out one big hand to remove Lily's shawl...
Really, I know we were writing 135k-150k words back then, but how much padding does any one sentence need? What else would he reach out besides his hand? Duh, huh? And if he removes the shawl, don't we know he's reached for it? These older books are packed with obvious and unnecessary description of action. Yawn. I think I cut that sentence to read Cade took Lily's shawl.
If he needs to put his big hands anywhere, it should be on Lily in a hot scene!
4 comments:
Hi Patricia! Awesome on the new release! Yours are dear books so I'm hoping to grab this on in print as soon as I can. I did grab your ebook of novellas from your anthologies, AMERICAN TREASURES. It is such a joy to be able to read these stories in the anthologies that I missed! I did read the other one you put out and haven't read one of your American historical romances yet so this is a joy! I just put DENIM AND LACE on my list to get! Another one I missed! Thank you again. My message is long cuz I got lots to say not filling in the word numbers here (smile!) I now so understand why w with some of the earlier books I read! I never thought of it that way til you explained! I'll remember that when reading now! Congrats again on your releases!
Thank you for all the kind words! I don't mind lots of words when they say nice things. "G" Glad you're finding and enjoying the American historicals.
Hi Patricia-
Just downloaded Montague for the LONG plane ride we'll be taking in October - Now I just have to make myself wait that long to read it, but you are one the very few authors who can make me forget how miserable I am on a long flight, so I'm resisting temptation to grab my Kindle RIGHT NOW and start....Thanks for what I know will be another great read!
Donna Brown
Donna, thank you! Hope the book holds up for the long flight. I love flying but they've made the planes so miserably uncomfortable that escape is definitely needed!
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