Please join us in welcoming Hope Tarr to Book Binge. She’s here to discuss the brave, new digital book world. *** Hail Brave New Digital Book WorldBy Hope Tarr When my Victorian-set romance, Tempting, first released as a mass market single title with a major New York publisher, I thought my publishing career was made. […]
Emma Develle is a struggling artist trying to eke out a living in the big city. The violent and apparently supernatural death of her Aunt Johanna begins a strange series of events that will change Emma’s life forever. Staying in her aunt’s house, Emma is drawn to a mural that seems to change before her […]
For a long time I resisted getting an ereader. I love paper books. I love the feel of them, the smell of then. I love how the paper yellows over time, especially if it’s a book I re-read often (and I re-read a lot of books!). I even love how the spine gets lined and […]
I’ve always been a tactile person. I like physical books—their smell, their feel, their look. But one day my critique partner, Patricia Simpson (www.PatriciaSimpson.com), showed up at my house with a steampunk novella. She planned to enter it in a contest that Carina Press was running. I’d heard of Carina Press, of course. The e-arm […]
I wrote Jessamine more than ten years ago after a lovely trip to the island of St. Lucia. The character of Arabella came to me in an old church there and I put together my story folder with postcards, synopsis, character sketches, etc. in the next few months. About a year later I had my […]