Jencey's Writer's Corner

Welcome to the Virtual Nightstand post for this week.   So without further ado here are the winners:   For the Mary Kay prize pack:  Dara Matson Follower Love Giveaway First Prize:  Suzy Missirlian                                          Second Prize:  Melissa Amster                                          Third Prize:  Hailey Fish There is another giveaway coming which I am still assembling all the prizes for but I can tell you what some of them are:  Mary Kay Andrews Save the Date galley, Beth Hoffman's  Looking for  Me,  and...

I’ve often been asked how I would “cast” my trilogy (which includes Click: An Online Love Story , Double Click and the newly-released final installment, Right Click ) if the books were made into a movie or series of movies.   Let me just put it out there in the universe that I would LOVE to see these hit the big screen.   I’ve often said the books marry the friendships of “Sex and the City,” the epistolary nature of “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and the online love story of “You’ve Got Mail” to be light and breezy stories for anyone who's ever been dumped, been in love, had a bad date or is still searching for "the one."   Considering 1 in 5 relationships today now begin online, the time is right for a modern digital love story with a lot of heart and humor.   That being said, these would be my recommendations and a brief rationale for each.   Casey Wilson as Renee Greene Casey has the humor and warmth to play the main character in this...

  Thank you to Beth Hoffman to day for stopping by Writer's Corner.   She is sharing how she would cast Looking For Me.   She is currently touring to celebrate it's release to paperback. Teddi Overman   - Rachel McAdams wins the lead role. Her voice and physical characteristics are spot-on. There’s something about her that’s “real” and unaffected.    Josh Overman – Josh has few spoken lines, yet he’s a driving force in the story. A loner with an otherworldly connection to nature, his underlying energy is volcanic. Logan Lerman resembles Josh physically and has the intense look.         Henry Overman – Without a doubt I’d pick Sam Shepard to play Teddi’s dad. He has a rugged and powerful screen presence that’s perfect for a war veteran and farmer.    Frannie Overman – Sissy Spacek would be brilliant as Teddi’s mom. She plays rural Southern characters like nobody else. When she...

When Jencey told me the subject of her anniversary Guest Posts was, “Who would you cast in your novel?” I was delighted, as I’m sure the other writers were as well. This is something I think a lot of writers hyperventilate over (or at least I do). Imagining your novel coming to life on the screen (big or small) and seeing actors talking your words. With my contemporary romance novel Rock My World , I had a rough idea right from when I started jotting down ideas and characters, who I could imagine (or hope!) would portray my characters. Stevie Vee, my ghostly 80s rock singer, is charismatic, talented and has a waterfall of brown curls Jon Bon Jovi would have been envious of. For me, somebody like the lovely “Musketeers”, “Merlin” and “Heroes” actor Santiago Cabrera would make the perfect Stevie. He has presence in bucket loads; possesses a definite twinkle and has the class and charm of the many of the dashing film stars of the 1940s. For my hero, the sexy, arro...