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Tag Archives: kayla
Who Are You (woot-woot)?
This week, YA Highway asks the questions How do you decide on names? Would you ever name a character after a friend/family member/ex? Back when I was writing romances, I wanted everyday names for my characters. So I kept a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, The Writing Life, Uncategorized, Writing Craft
Tagged awakening, character, devak, karen sandler, kayla, name, revolution, TANKBORN, trilogy
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The Trouble With Trilogies
Back in my romance writing days, I didn’t write trilogies. The love stories I wrote were one-offs. Although half of my Harlequin books (Counting on a Cowboy, A Father’s Sacrifice, His Baby to Love, The Three-Way Miracle, and Her Baby’s … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Tankborn Origins, The Writing Life, Writing Craft
Tagged angry robot, awakening, clean burn, drom, exhibit a, karen sandler, kayla, lee and low, revolution, seycat, sticker bush, TANKBORN, trilogies, trilogy, tu books
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Tankborn Outtakes
Back around October 2009, I finished work on a manuscript titled GENeration, a young adult science fiction book. I knew it wasn’t finished finished. I didn’t yet have an agent or editor for the book, but I knew that when … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Tankborn Origins, The Writing Life
Tagged deleted scenes, devak, edit, editing, exclusives, GEN, kayla, lowborn, outtakes, re-write, re-writing, TANKBORN, trueborn
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RTW – Sayin’ It
I had to leave early this morning, so I didn’t have a chance to check out YA Highway‘s Road Trip Wednesday until now. The prompt for this RTW is “Write a dialogue between two of your favorite YA characters.” Since … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Tankborn Origins, The Writing Life
Tagged brigade, dialogue, kayla, mishalla, sewer toad, TANKBORN
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Can a Heroine be Weak?
Mindy Ruiz blogged yesterday about weak vs. kick-ass heroines. In response, a commenter on G+ wondered why a strong heroine has to show her vulnerabilities, but the same didn’t seem to be true for heroes, i.e., that male characters don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Strongly Held Beliefs, The Writing Life
Tagged characters, complex characters, gale, hero, heroes, heroine, heroines, katniss, kayla, peeta, prim, TANKBORN, the hunger games
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We Have a Cover
Just a short post to announce that I can now reveal the cover art for TANKBORN, my dystopian young adult novel that will be coming out in September 2011 from Lee & Low’s new YA/MG imprint, Tu Books. Lee & … Continue reading
Posted in The Writing Life
Tagged babies, cover, DNA, GEN, kayla, new cover art, slave, TANKBORN, tattoo
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