Author of Young Adult Fiction
Since my alter-ego has a cover release today, I’m going to share too! ———– SQUEEEE! I love when I get to share these kinds of goodies with you all!! So … here you go! And here is the blurby goodness! For years, Ian Sands has …
Thank you, up front, to “I Am A Reader, Not A Writer” for hosting this awesome hop! I’m supporting myself (Aimee Laine) in my quest to clear out the only room in her/my house that could become a library. Support by ‘taking’ one of her …
You get 250 words from After Dark (the first 250 words) to guess the age of the main character, Mackenzie, better known as Mac. 🙂 Why? Because I’m participating in Brenda Drake’s Can We Guess Your Character’s Age? Blogfest Contest What do you get out …
I need to stop thinking. That’s what I need to do. Yep. Yep. I just need to shut my brain down and make it stop. I asked my writer buddy to help. She refuses. No way. I ain’t standing in front of that freight train. …
Many people talk about how writing is a very personal, individual and isolated activity. It keeps them rooted to a laptop, in a world created on their own. A place without the input or camaraderie that comes with team sports or even working in a …
I have to admit that under my other pen name, all my stories are series of three — so trilogies. The difference between this me and my other me is that Emi Gayle stories are coming out as sequels instead of series. What’s the difference? …
Word count. Not sure what that means? Word count refers to the number of words in a novel. Under my adult pen name, I write 80,000 – 100,000 words in per novel. For my YA stories, I shoot for 70,000- 80,000. No matter the story, …
No, that wasn’t hard math. 🙂 That was me, saying, which ‘person’ shall I write in? Well … most (not all, but most) Young Adult (YA) novels are written in the 1st person (that means that the narrator can say ‘I’ or ‘Me’). As Aimee …
Don’t all awesome romances have epilogues? Well I love them, so here is mine to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of My teenage love story! Epilogue He left at the end of his senior year, headed to college, two-hours away. I joined him …
Read Part 1 or Part 2 of My teenage love story first …. I hung my head as a wave of remorse and embarrassment sent super-heated shivers down my spine. I hadn’t put one bit of thought into my actions, just walked to him with …
Read My Teenage Love Story Part 1 here. At my whispered announcement into my friends’ ears hours later, they started the second phase of their ‘just pick a guy’ plan. “Just go say ‘hi’,” became their new chorus. I shook my head at them every …
Want to read my embarrassing moment (at 14 years old) in meeting my now husband (of 16 years)? Here’s your chance! Enjoy! I Pick Him As the only girl in a group of eleven guys, a lot of eyes turned my way. The oboe doesn’t …