Author Archives: Ellie Heller
The end of an ERA (for me)
(this is attempt six at a start, let’s hope it takes). First, as I’ve said many, *many* times I love my crit group, ERA. And I’m not the only one, KevaD also comments here on how great having a solid critique group is. But I just left the group, after having been involved since shortly [...]
Whew, now that’s done, it’s back to writing!
So, with the family event behind me (barely), it’s back to writing. With only four weeks until school is out here are my goals: 1). Finish the last bit of rewriting to change from first person to third. Yes, I am still working on that project. 2). Evaluate which story I will work on next. [...]
SSS – Start of Bett’s Story, erotic short
There are a couple of calls out right now I’m working on. One is for my critique group, ERA. I’m also thinking of sending in a submission to a Seaside Smut anthology Lucy Felthouse is editing, to see if I might get in that one. Info on the Seaside Call: Smut by the Sea: The [...]
Paranormal vs Contemporary Fantasy: What’s in a Genre?
I could really use some help here. How would you define paranormal vs contemporary fantasy? I’m curious because my post on ‘Paranormal Romance in Decline?‘ brought forth a slew of people asking me this on Twitter. Here’s my take: At it’s most basic, I think, perhaps, the definition is vampires (paranormal) vs fae/magic (contemporary fantasy). [...]
Six Sexy Sentences from Warder by Ellie Heller
I’m still figuring out if the six sentence thing is on Saturday or Sunday. I did Saturday last time, I’ll do Sunday this time. Hey, I’m flexible. Here is a sneak peak of the ‘pre-sex’ scene from Warder which I referenced yesterday. Right now I have the story written as ‘sweet’ (sex is behind closed [...]
Paranormal Romance in decline?
Somewhere this week, and truly I’ve been searching to find where it was because I neglected to book mark it!, I read that Paranormal Romance is in a decline and that publishers are looking for more contemporary stories in a couple of different areas, including ones with fantasy elements. Okay, my first thought was shit! [...]
I just bought 600 plates… plus other, writerly, things.
Busy week, but that’s usual. Getting things for my son’s bar mitzvah (hence the 600 paper plates), editing/revising my WIP, writing blog posts (did I mention I’ll be on Literary Escapism next week as a guest author on 4/17? – BIG GRIN on that one). Plus, in the process of getting my name out there [...]
Too Much Backstory vs Not Enough
Or how to give readers what they need to know versus massive info dumps of information. I don’t do well at this. It’s been the one largest flaw in my published story. People saying they felt they were dropped in the middle of something and didn’t know what was going on because I’d cut out [...]
Ginny’s Capture now on AMAZON
~~Lesbians vs ~~Zombies~~
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