by Charlene Teglia | Feb 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
I roughed out the synopsis for the suspense story I dreamed today, and having roughed it out made me realize just how solid it is, and how much I like it. It fits my core story to a T. My only real question is, how likely am I to consistently come up with more ideas like this? I’ve cooked up other suspense ideas, so it’s not a one-off. Which means if I write up a proposal or write it on spec in spare time and it sells, I could follow it up with another in the same vein.
If that seems like putting the cart before the horse, well, I’ve learned that long-term thinking is kind of the difference between selling books and building a career. Not that there’s anything wrong with one or the other, but since I want to build a career, I don’t want to get side-tracked with one-offs. I like action/suspense plots, though, and I think this contemporary suspense is a nice contrast to the paranormals I’m writing.
Now that I have the idea down, I’ll put it away until the werewolves have fought their way to happily ever after. But I like it, I really do. It’s juicy. It will not be St. Martin’s #5, because my editor and I already discussed that I’ll be doing another erotic paranormal after the werewolves, and this isn’t paranormal. But I’ll do something with it. If not this year, down the road.
by Charlene Teglia | Feb 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Out of This World Lover, the anthology which contains Wolf In Cheap Clothing plus fabulous novellas from Shannon Stacey and Kate Rothwell aka Summer Devon, is now up for pre-order on Amazon! Woo! Can’t wait to see covers for these Pocket anthologies.
I’m putting together bookclub discussion questions for Satisfaction Guaranteed. Hmm. I thought it’d be easier after doing this for Wild Wild West, but it’s tough. If you were doing a bookclub discussion of Satisfaction Guaranteed, what topics would you want to cover? Suggestions welcome! Also, feel free to join the discussion in April at Jennifer Crusie’s Cherry Forums.
by Charlene Teglia | Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
This entire week has been about the wall. Not a writing wall. Nope. Book is fine. In fact, my brain coughed up yet another book last night while I was sleeping, although it’s a romantic suspense, so maybe a tough sell. But a brain made to invent stories will keep on inventing them no matter what, so this is why I am awake with a new proposal in my head.
The wall is in the laundry room, a shared wall with the preschooler’s bedroom, and it has a dead valve where a live valve should be, hence water has been leaking into the wall from the pipe. We discovered this when we noticed that the carpet along the wall by the above-mentioned daughter’s bed was damp and went looking for the cause. This totally explains my ongoing asthma attack. Hello, mold. So, no laundry, water shut off, various people called, and then waiting for various people to appear to fix said problem.
The final fix is scheduled for this morning, and this afternoon we will hopefully be done with the wall.
It’s been kind of like that settling in post-move. Between the furnace, hot water heater and plumbing, really unless a meteor hits the roof nothing else can happen, so we should be good to go with the house now. But TGIF, people. I am so done with the week of the wall.
Now I’ll just go write down this new idea I dreamed. Because you never know when somebody might want a sexy romantic suspense.
by Charlene Teglia | Feb 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
Okay, with Pinky and the Brain the plots always happened at night, and I’m not really trying to take over the world. Just this book. I know there’s going to be chaos this afternoon, so I need to get my plotting in this morning. Writing a book is kind of like getting Pinky and the Brain to work together and actually accomplish something. An interesting process. Brain wants power, Pinky wants to wear lederhosen. Both contribute to the story. Without the Brain’s plotting, there’s no structure. Without Pinky’s wild and wacky contributions, there’d be nothing stirring the plot up.
Maybe this is a lame analogy but it’s the best I’ve got without any caffeine in me. Good thing there’s a large bag of coffee beans in the kitchen. Happy Thursday, world, and happy birthday, Mom!
by Charlene Teglia | Feb 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Ann tagged me with this meme, so here are 6 unimportant things about me:
1. I’ve never worked in a coffee shop.
2. I can’t wear watches.
3. I don’t wear shoes in the house.
4. I change hair length, style and color regularly.
5. I currently don’t own any dress-up clothes.
6. I have dragons on my desk.
In other news, I’ve been visiting the local bookstores to sign stock, and am happy to see that Borders and B&N both have Satisfaction on the shelves. Yay!
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