Napping…it’s not just for nanas

Where do you get your best ideas? In the bath? By going on a walk? Well for me they tend to come just when I am about the fall asleep so whenever I get stuck with my writing I tend to take a nap. I might not necessarily sleep, but for the hour that I lay there I let my brain roam free. Sometimes it is just a swirly mess of thoughts and images but other times it will settle on a dialogue, or a plot point.

As there is no typing involved you can imagine things in real-time and see where the plot goes. Sometimes it will flow in one direction and will get to a situation I don’t think is right and then I will back up a bit to see if I can explore a different direction. Other times the idea will just flow and I will be itching to get up and write down everything that has just gone through my head. The best part of my method for me is that because I have never typed my random thoughts down I don’t have that guilt over deleting chapters when they don’t work.

And I even get my own personal bedtime story which is fun when you are working through kinky scenes like the ones I wrote for my new novel Tied to You.

This post was originally published on http://kdgrace.co.uk on 12 November 2014

Location, location, location

One of the hardest things I find when writing is getting the balance between fact and fiction just right. Of course the characters and the storyline are always fictitious but I always find myself pulling locations and settings from my own life. When I was in the process of writing Tied to You, I decided I wanted to set part of the novel in Perth in Western Australia. I spent fourteen months living there and instantly fell in love with the place; I made so many friends and was fortunate to live a twenty minute drive to some of the most pristine beaches in the whole world with dazzling white sand and turquoise water.

For me, writing about the place was almost cathartic; I was feeling really homesick for the place so being able to remember my favourite places and put them in the story made me feel a little like I hadn't even left (even if the reality was that I was freezing my butt off during the British winter).

This post was originally published on http://houstonhavens.wordpress.com/ on 11 November 2014

Making your mother blush: Writing erotic romances

I never set out for my first book, Thirty Days Have September, to be an erotic romance. I read plenty of novels in that genre but I also love thrillers, supernatural, a good murder mystery and sappy love stories. But as I got to the point that I needed to write the first sex scene I got a little bit nervous. Of course there are so many ways of writing a sex scene from the completely discrete to no-holds-barred graphic descriptions and I just wasn’t sure where I sat on the spectrum. So one day I just sat down and wrote the kind of description that I would have enjoyed reading myself and, low and behold, I discovered I had a bit of a kinky side.

This has continued and been stretched even further with my latest novel, Tied to You, where I explore a BDSM relationship. Whilst not actively in the scene myself, I have a couple of friends who are and were happy to answer any questions I had. It took a long time to get the scenes and the relationship dynamics right but in the end when my harshest critic, my mother, praised them and told me she enjoyed them I realised that I had found my groove. And who knew my mum had a kinky side as well?

This post was originally published on http://inthepagesofagoodbook.com on 10 November 2014

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Your author needs you!

My new novel, Tied to You, is coming out on the 31st October and I would love it if you could help support my Thunderclap campaign. If I get 100 supporters then Thunderclap will send my message out across everyone's networks .

What's in a name? That which we call a rose...

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It is always exciting when readers get involved and ask questions about the ideas behind the story, and for the first time someone has actually queried the title of my novel and the fact that it should be Thirty Days Has September.

When I came up with the concept of Thirty Days it was because, for some crazy reason, I had the the Mother Goose version floating around my head (Well that, and a load of other baby rhymes that go along with having a three year old!). I loved the idea of taking the reader on a journey through each day of a month and knew from the start that the story was so much much bigger than just one book. So the idea took shape of a series; one based along the lines of the rhyme to encompass nine months, the time it would take for my main character to fall pregnant and have her baby. And then then the internal debate started; to have or to has!

I wanted to keep the idea of the series so I took the leap of using 'have' rather than 'has' as a way of binding the series together. So while technically it should be 'has', by the time all four books have been published I will have a series titled Thirty Days Have September, November, April & June.

Thirty days have September,

April, June, and November.

All the rest have 31,

Except February alone,

And that has 28 days clear,

And 29 in a leap year.

Thirty days have September,

April, June, and November

All the rest have 31,

Except for February.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_days_hath_September)