For today’s episode, we’re going to change it up a bit. Since our guest can be a bit prickly (read obstinate, mule-headed, unforthcoming) when it comes to answering personal questions or attempts to delve into his background, we’ve asked Kenna Campbell, MFC and star of Eden’s Fall, whom we met in part…
Category: Fiction Archives
Legacy posts saved from the vault. Formerly categorized as Random Acts of Fiction. Short Stories, Series stories, Inside the Writer’s Studio Interviews.
What’s Past Is Prologue
In the context of The Tempest, Shakespeare meant that everything that came before doesn’t matter because a new, different and wonderful future awaits. That’s not what modern, current usage makes of those words, however. When we hear that phrase, we generally take it to mean just the opposite – that the past matters a great…
The Cooking Scene – Excerpt from Eden’s Fall
“Don’t come in!” Kenna yelled. Panic pitching her voice high enough to make Will wince and push through her body weight against the kitchen door. Kenna prided herself on her inability to cook anything but coffee and grilled cheese sandwiches, and yet his – their – kitchen, usually immaculate under her care was strewn…
Inside the Writer’s Studio, Part 2 – A Chat With Mike Chapman
A week ago, K. R. Brorman imagined a Q&A with her Female Main Character (FMC) who inhabits Eden’s Fall, Kenna Campbell. I’ve learned today that it was a more difficult exercise than one would expect. We believe we know our characters so well – they live in our heads, we create their life stories…
Inside the Writer’s Studio
Ten questions with Eden’s Fall MFC* Kenna Campbell What is your favorite word? Kintsukuroi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, making the piece more beautiful for having been broken. What is your least favorite word? Impossible What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? The saint’s altars in St. Patrick’s Cathedral….
Stay – Part 4/4
Thank you for reading, I hope you have enjoyed this story so close to my heart. Catch-up on the first installments here: Stay-Part 1, Stay-Part 2, Stay-Part 3. Stay – Part 4 “Ex-wife. You took all of the wedding gifts except my family heirlooms when we split.” The vein in his forehead pulsed. Michael bit…
Excerpt from “Eden’s Fall”
Collaboration. It’s a word we use a fair amount around here and I’m here this morning to prove it. Saturdays, K. R. Brorman, S. A. Young and I take turns writing about our collaboration on a series of three (so far) contemporary romantic suspense novels1. K. R. Brorman is the lead author of the first…
Stay – Part 3/4
Catch up with Stay – Part 1 & Part 2. Michael stretched, his shoulders and back crackling with morning relief. He squinted to block the sun streaming through shutters he rarely opened, and snaked his hands under the sheet, searching for her warm body. His deep disappointment at the empty bed confused him. He…
Stay – Part 2/4
This is the second part of a four part fanfiction, that began Emma’s story in Stay – Part 1. In Part 2 lessons on our craft have been applied, Let’s Talk About Sex. Stay She squeezed her eyes closed. If only you could’ve closed your mouth. You insulted him! And what’s with the Virgin…
Let’s Talk About Sex
Each Saturday, we take turns writing about our process, experiences or works-in-progress as we set about writing our Great American Novels first novels. We’ve told you that we describe our genre, or sub-sub-genre, to be contemporary romantic suspense. For the purposes of this post, the emphasis is on romantic. Or, more accurately, scenes of physical…