Entries by Bethany Maines
Hudson!
Hudson is Released into the Wild! It’s release day for Hudson, book 1 of the Rejects Pack. This archaeological thriller / paranormal romance melds all the booby trapped tomb adventures of Indiana Jones with some shifter wolves, flirtatious banter and tosses in some evil warlocks and a mysterious mummy for good measure. So in some […]
Rejects Pack Trilogy
by Bethany Maines IT’S A TRILOGY! So last year I swore I wasn’t going to do another “quick” release of a trilogy because that was just too much work. The Supernatural world of the 3 Colors Trilogy was so much fun, but was I ever tired by the time A Brighter Yellow came out. I thought that […]
Plotter vs. Pantser
When is a Plotter a Pantser? I recently participated in a fun podcast where I debated the old writing argument of whether to plot out a novel in detail or whether or to simply dive in and wing it. I was arguing for the plotter side. As a former pantser, I can attest to the […]
Rewrite Time
Time for a Rewrite With Christmas just past and the long stretch of post holiday free time ahead (that’s a joke, there’s no free time, just more gray skies) it must be time to launch into a new project. Or perhaps just rehash, reimagine, and rewrite an old one. I’m mid-way through turning my Christmas […]
Battery Life
My battery life be like… Whew! I rolled into November like I thought I was Rocky and I’m hitting mid-December like I’m Rocky after going the distance with Apollo Creed. I caught the flu over Thanksgiving weekend and that took me down right when I wanted to be hard charging into Christmas decorating! Combined with […]
Let’s All NaNoWriMo… or Not
by Bethany “NaNoWriMo” Maines NaNoWriMo Wha? I don’t really believe in NaNoWriMo AKA National Novel Writing Month. Partially just because I object strenuously to the clunky abbreviation. But also because the goal of writing fifty thousand words in a month reduces novel writing to a very basic component—words. Writing fifty-thousand words is an accomplishment of […]
The Fallen Man Release
by Bethany Maines The Fallen Man Release! Next week sees the release of the fourth book in the Deveraux Legacy series – The Fallen Man. I suspect that each author picks their projects based on something in the story that they want to explore. For me this series started out as an exploration of why […]
Research
by Bethany Maines Recently, I was working on a bit of research for a novel and was forced to reach up into my library of reference books… OK, let’s just pause and admit that’s how old I am. I have reference books. When I wrote my first novel, Bulletproof Mascara, my heroine was a linguist, […]
Holiday Novella
by Bethany Maines A New Holiday Novella Oh my goodness! COVID down time actually came through for me this year and I have finished, yes that’s right actually finished, the holiday novella I’ve been planning on getting around to for last THREE years. Way back in 2017 I completed what I would consider a long […]