Musings of a Chocoholic Romance Author: Donica Covey

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Promo Tuesday!

Every now and again, I get a kick out of doing some free promoting for my friends. It's a great pleasure and an honor to suggest the following authors for your summer reading.

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.
~Robert Brault

StC: Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey ...and for a sample chapter, click HERE.

Brief Encounters by Nell Dixon, Phillipa Ashley and Elizabeth Hanbury

Dangerous to Know by Nell Dixon

Making Waves by Nell Dixon

Death Rides a Pale Harley by Donica Covey

Morgan Creek by Jinger Jackson

Nothing better than losing yourself in a wonderful romance novel, unless you lose yourself in a wonderful romance novel with some chocolate and maybe a strawberry margarita or some other frozen tropical "adult" concoction...while basking in the sun on a white sand beach somewhere...while cabana boys (men) gently fan you with large palm leaves, refill your drink, fetch chocolate...Ahhhhhh...This is the life.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ~Samuel Lover

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. ~Somerset Maugham

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~Somerset Maugham

Quotes About Writing

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. ~Melinda Haynes

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. ~John D. MacDonald

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann

Easy reading is damned hard writing. ~Anonymous

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~Somerset Maugham

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. ~E. L. Doctorow

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. ~Ken MacLeod\

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Never throw up on an editor. ~Ellen Datlow

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. ~Stephen King

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. ~Will Shetterly

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned. ~Oscar Wilde

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. ~Anonymous

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. ~Ernest Hemingway

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. ~Gene Wolfe