This is my first dip into the gianormous icy pond that is cyberspace.
Welcome to my site. This is the start of what I hope will be a successful writing career. I guess ‘hope’ is too passive so I will say what WILL BE a successful writing career. I create contemporary and paranormal romances.
On this site I will discuss what I love about writing, reading and other topics that pertain to what I am writing and reading. Of course I may occassionally veer off onto other topics, but I’ll try to maintain focus and not get too carried away with the importance of my own opinion.
So before I talk about what I write, I will tell you what I look for as a reader. I love to lose myself in the characater, hence why I enjoy romance novels. My life isn’t too exciting ,so where else can I become a vampire slayer, a high-power executive looking for release with a little bdms play, or lost royalty who has to rescue herself and the bad guys from danger, except in the pages of a book. I’ve read just about every genre of romance there is and I do have my favorites. I remember reading as a teenager a Shilouette Shadows vampire novel by Maggie Shayne. It was the first ‘paranormal’ romance novel I remember seeing on the shelves and I loved it. Years went by as I I lost my literary way and when I returned, the paranormal world had exploded. Lucky for us! What I love best about paranormals is the the couple is fighting something besides themselves or each other. Only so many pages can be devoted to why the heroes are hiding their true feelings for each other when their lives are in danger from the soul-sucking necormancer who is trying to infect the entire population with mind controling devices so that he can rule the world. I read to get away from real life relationship hang-ups. Not to vicariously live someone elses.
Besides paramormals, I enjoy any story with a strong hero and an equally strong, if not stronger, heronine. What I look for in a hero is the same as what I look for in real life. A man who can take care of anything and everything, if the heroine wants him to. Not because she is unable to take care of herself. This is what I hope to bring to my writing. A strong man who can recognize a good thing when he sees it and not let it go. Of course, there will be conflict. Otherwise, what’s the point? But I want them to be smart characters who are clever and witty, because I enjoy clever and witty. As I’ve said before, if I don’t want to write it, why would anyone want to read it? Same thing applies in reverse, if I don’t want to read it, why would I write it?
Here’s to the beginning of my journey from pencil and paper (yes I do primarily write in long hand) to a published novel. Where I go from this first blog post to twenty or thirty years from now when I send my thoughts directly to you from the computer chip that is embedded in my brain. How does that sound? Would you like to subscribe to Anna’s brain?
Well, I guess if you’re reading this, you already have. 🙂