My Turn!

Okay, okay, the usual Nadine would be fuming and pontificating over yesterday’s presidential debates, but today is not just any old day… this week, it’s my turn to tour on the GCC network, and it has been so exciting (and a little exhausting, I won’t lie) conducting all these interviews… 18 in all! Crazy!

Going back to Cutting Loose at a time when I’d mentally shelved away that whole world and its characters in favor of working on my next novel, it was interesting to revisit the creative choices I’d made, to think about the publishing, promotion and craft insights I’d made in the ensuing months since I stopped working on it. That’s another really quirky thing about publishing - every time you think you’re totally done with a book, you’re not. There’s more to do. And you’re left scratching your head, wondering if you should go back and reread your own novel to remember all those thoughts and insights you had while you were writing it! One of my craft book advocates creating a binder for each book you write and dedicating some space for things like what inspired you to write about these particular characters or topics, how did you come up with the title, etc… Not a bad idea at all… maybe I should get myself a binder for my next novel!

Here’s a sampler of some of the blogs I’m on this week. First up is the adorable Jess Riley who shares my annoying-to-others tendency to shout AH! when she identifies a story manipulation element in movies to unsuspecting fellow audience members, Wendy Tokunaga who wins my vote for most original title for Midori by Moonlight, Roberta Isleib who’s got my characters on the therapy couch (which, let’s face it, they totally need), Amy Wallen, and Karin Gillespie who’s got me admitting to the entire world that I absolutely refuse to age gracefully.