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Interview with the Fallen For Books

This is the first of weekly interviews by Author Dahlia Donovan with much needed, and little appreciated, book bloggers. It's her turn to turn the tables and share the love.

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Interview with the Fallen For Books

JUL 11

Posted by dahliadonovanauthor

1. What trope do you wish authors would run far, far away from?  If the book is written perfectly with enough reasons why something happened in the book then I don’t have any problem. So I don’t think there is any particular trope until they explain it better. But I would say one-Insta Love. It’s only thing I can’t understand. unless there is a reason why it happened.

2. The one book you’ll re-read over and over and over: Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer. Read it 1000 times.

3.  If you could rewrite one book to change one part of it, which book would you choose and what would you change? I don’t think I want to change anything. It happened in the book. Author wanted it in that way. I can’t question that. I might not love the ending or something. But I understand and I love it.

4. Do you have a favorite place to read? Bus or Bed. I get free then most of the time. I have a weird habit to read in washrooms. No one to disturb me there lol.

5. Tell us a little bit about why you started book blogging: I loved reviewing. I used to follow bloggers and loved how they interacted with authors and helping them. I just started the blog but was never active much. I became more serious after I started taking parts in blog tours and my love for blogging increased. I love talking about books, promoting authors. This is why I became more serious about blogging. :)

6. What’s the one thing you can’t live without? Family and Books. They are my life blood. :)

7. And finally a quick round of pick one:

Coffee or Tea: Coffeee

Sweet or Salty: Sweet

Chocolate or Vanilla:  Chocolate

Hot or Cold: Both

Laptop or PC: Laptop

Paperback or Ebook: Ebook. But I love to collect paperbacks too. so equal preference.

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Half the year is over

I began the dreaded revision process on HIS Redemption this week. In other words, you saw the nice American flag wood pallet I painted and my updated website. What you missed was the hours spent trying to utilize WordPress as my main website and blog and all the organization I completed around the house. I also finished another novel. I did firmly plant my rear in the chair and complete two chapters.

Beta readers and critique partners are great assets to an author. They can pat you on the back and give you great ideas on how to improve your story. They can also beat you down until you want to burn your manuscript. Thankfully, even giving bad news, my critique partner and beta readers haven’t brought me to that level, although I do have quite a bit of work in revising my story. Thank you, ladies, for helping make the story more intriguing. I’m adding two more beta readers once these revisions are complete for a fresh perspective. They have tough shoes to fill.

I won Hearts in Vegas (Harlequin super romance) by Colleen Collins (5-star rating on Amazon) and am finally going to read it. What? I promise to read it when I need a break from revising. 

The year is half over. I’ve not held to any of my New Year’s resolutions, and my mom is almost complete with her holiday shopping. How about you? New Year’s resolutions kept? Do you save all year or buy gifts throughout the year for the holidays? Or, do you try to find a way to make your monthly budget stretch more in December while suddenly attempting to meet those resolutions goals?

Now that I’ve added to your minds the stress of holiday shopping and forgotten goals, I wish you a fabulous rest of the week.

It’s logo poker time J.

Sheila’s current website                                The website under construction                             

                                    

Let’s feed those addictions! I call it logo poker -

                     

If you need to draw more cards, I have them for you – Tumblr, LinkedIn, Sulia, Booktropolous…And, I have two of some cards (personal and author).

Time to get back to work

It has been a month since I’ve posted about my book to my blog – but it hasn’t kept visitors away. What have I been doing? You know that I finished HIS Redemption then I took a break – reading and relaxing. Oh, and I had my hair cut.

So, my fun is over. Time to get back to work. I did take a course with an agent who reviewed my query letter, synopsis and first two pages of my manuscript. Good feedback. Now, my ms is with a new critique partner and I’m biting my nails.

What’s next? Find an editor. I’ve been researching them and wow – it can cost a small fortune to have a book edited. After editing, formatting and cover artwork, I wonder how many new authors make up their costs on their first novel. Oh well, it’s worth it – paperback in hand, priceless.

How about an unedited excerpt from HIS Redemption?

“Look Jesse, I’m sorry to hear this psycho is after someone you love, but you two,” Kate said pointing her index finger back and forth between AJ and Jesse, “need to leave me out of this. I want this shooter caught because he hit me, but I don’t want, or need, protection since no one is after me.”

            “It doesn’t matter what you want,” Jesse growled.

            Kate stood. She’d had enough. “Unless you can tell me who the shooter is, then this conversation is over, gentlemen.”

            Jesse stood. A grin spread over his face, and she saw a gleam in his eyes. “No, sweetheart, this conversation is far from over.”

I’ll share some of the reviews of books I read this past month to give you some summer reading ideas. I also thought I would do a few author guests posts from time to time for you. If you have authors you’d like to hear from, let me know.

I hope you have a fabulous week!

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