http://www.annakatherine.com/blog the writing team of anna genoese and katherine crighton Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:46:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As an editor, I have always been really concerned with whether or not the readers would be able to hold a picture of each character in their minds. I stand pretty opposed to the trope of looking in a mirror or comparisons to celebrities to describe the characters (Wow, she ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/06/11/choose-your-own-hottie/ We've said this before, but if you review Salt and Silver on your blog (or someone else's), please let us know! We'd love to link to your review from our site. And here's our newest review! This one comes from Aja, who can be found at livejournal (with a mirror at ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/06/11/new-review/ We have a guest post up at Victoria Janssen's excellent writing blog, about rolling your own kind of vampire: One of the biggest issues with writing any paranormal beastie is the need to bring something new to the table. With everybody writing about vampires these days, why should someone ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/06/02/guest-post-6/ -- a kiss of youth and love. (Oh, Byron, you are so dreamy.) I often think that the kiss, rather than the sex scene, is the primary romantic force of the romance novel. For me, a sex scene is emotional, sure, but for the most part shows up as titillation for ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/05/24/a-long-long-kiss/ Thanks to Fox Literary Agency and Books Crossing Borders, the Russian language rights for Salt and Silver have been sold to Azbooka Klassica Publishers! Russian-language readers, look out for demons and Doors to Hell! More information as we have it... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/05/19/salt-and-silver-to-be-translated-into-russian/ Kat and Anna want to make it clear that we support all noncommercial transformative works (including but not limited to fan fiction, fan art, and fan vids). As fan fiction writers ourselves, and active participants in various fandoms for most of our lives, both on and off the internet, we ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/05/07/fandom-transformative-works-we-love-it-all/ This morning Kat and I did a lecture thing at the New England RWA conference in Framingham, MA. It was called “Writing as an Editor” but we ended up not actually talking about the writing and instead discussing stuff like what a production editor does and how to prepare yourself ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/03/27/kat-and-anna-writing-as-an-editor/ Just a reminder, you can see half of Anna Katherine (and hear a reading!) this weekend at Arisia, in Boston. Hope to see you there! http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/01/15/travel-plans/ "Draft" is not the same as "complete", and the "publish" button is very different from the "save draft" button! For those who saw a draft post up for a moment on New Year's Day, don't worry, it'll come back! Except this time, it will not be a horrible embarrassing accident. Happy ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2010/01/01/an-important-lesson/ Happy holidays, everyone! As a gift from us to you, have a story snippet set in our Door-world. You read about how Ryan came to be a hunter. Here's another origin story for you . . . Iwa She grew up being told that her mother had wanted to name her Roxanne ... http://www.annakatherine.com/blog/2009/12/20/have-a-holiday-present/