Jencey's Writer's Corner

Good morning!  I hope you have enjoyed this month as much as I have.  I thank all the authors who have shared a part in the first Pink Escape.    I am having surgery tomorrow, so Writer's Corner will be taking a break from October 28, 2015-December 1, 2015.   We will be back in time to celebrate Christmas.  We hope to see you then.

Rita Wray won the copy of Somewhere in the Middle!  Congratulations!

Anita is visiting us today on Writer's Corner with her next  novel Rome In Love.   Her novels seem to get better and better with time.  So that makes them a great  escape and my final recommendation! Rome In Love:    When Amelia Tate is cast to play the Audrey Hepburn role in a remake of Roman Holiday , she feels as if all her dreams have come true. She has a handsome boyfriend, is portraying her idol in a major motion picture, and gets to live in beautiful, Italian city of Rome for the next two months. Once there, she befriends a young woman named Sophie with whom she begins to explore the city. Together, they discover all the amazing riches that Rome has to offer. But when Amelia's boyfriend breaks up with her over her acting career, her perfect world begins to crumble. While moping in her hotel suite, Amelia discovers a stack of letters written by Audrey Hepburn that start to put her own life into perspective. Then, she meets Philip, a ha...

Congratulations to Vivian the winner of the Susan McBride giveaway!  I hope you enjoy please get back to me as soon as you can.  The giveaway for Sonya's book is still running!

Kimberly is visiting Writers Corner to share why you should escape with The Ones We Trust .   This is her most recent novel.   You can see my review of her novel here.   We might also discuss some other ways to escape. Thank you for having me! Why is The Ones We Trust a good novel to escape with? One reviewer described The Ones We Trust as an episode of Scandal mixed with A Few Good Men . I love that! What’s better than a good story to suck you in? Any good book is an escape, a place to lose yourself in for a few hours. A place to forget your problems and the world, and to experience someone else’s drama for a bit, and escape from your own. What would make these concepts of trust and love important to us and your characters? Trust is, as the title implies, an important issue in The Ones we Trust. Love, too. My characters struggle with both, and they find that sometimes the lines between them get blurred. You can’t always help who you love – fa...

I am good at following directions.   My biggest desire was to make sure that I didn’t create any issues at work with the change of my appearance.   Although I had found Bernadette’s Wig shop; We also did a fitting for wigs.   We found out that I have slightly larger head than average so they would have to order a wig for me.   So then the question became how do I keep my hair while I wait for this wig?    I found that I couldn’t wash it like normal because more of it would come out.   I couldn’t brush it, pick it, or comb because gobs of it would come out.   Finally the day of the wig coming in had arrived.   I had the stylist cut it   in the style that I would wear the wig.   I learned how to care for the wig with washing it and then taking care of my own hair or skull area.   Losing my hair was one of the hardest circumstances that I went through.   Now only a few people in my family have seen what my head truly loo...

  Sonya is visiting to Writer’s Corner today How does setting create escape? How do you entice readers with a setting that sucks them into the story in her new novel  The Middle of Somewhere ? Setting is crucial to my stories because until my characters have a real space in which to interact, they aren't alive to me. That said, I never set out to entice readers; I simply tell the story as best I can, and creating a realistic and intriguing setting is part of that. As much as I love my readers, I never think of them while I am writing. That road leads to madness! Instead, I concentrate on telling the truth about the situations and people I've invented. I'm a very visual person, so the particulars of the environment in which the story takes place are a necessary to me as knowing the emotional environment of the characters. If I do my job right, the setting enriches the actions and feelings of the characters, but, like so many aspects of writing, it's not something...