Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Feb 9, 2012, 3:24 am
... wage from writing. Between paying for my copyright, my domain, and various promotional ... the poor sales numbers. I had a lot of hopes for it ... this book, like with MQ, and I hate that they might consider ... doesn't affect anyone's bottom line. I have no idea ... see FreakTown...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Feb 3, 2012, 2:13 am
Note: This is weird for me because there's no paranormal element or music. The idea for the story came from seeing so many of my fellow writers joke on Twitter about their research getting them on a watch list. I have no idea if the government can really trace Google searches back to individuals but...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Jan 27, 2012, 2:53 am
Calla pawed through the box, tossing aside stray bits of wire and broken pieces she couldn't identify. Ignoring things she had no use for, like several old cell phones and TV remotes. She could make things work but she had no talent for cobbling together bits of this and that. A lack of ability she ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Jan 18, 2012, 2:59 pm
The only reason I'm not participating in today's internet blackout is because I don't know enough about coding to feel confident I won't bork my site by tinkering with the template. So I decided to do an awareness type post instead. A few minutes ago I checked out Twitter and was dismayed to s...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Jan 16, 2012, 1:00 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. I've been in a kind of "project limbo" for a while, with most of my writing being on my serial. I had a few ideas kicking around in my head and it looks like I've finally settled on a story. Or perhaps I should say, a story has settled on me. Of course, the one Iâ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Jan 12, 2012, 10:00 am
Well I was going to try to get back onto a blogging schedule of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, but it's just not working. So I'm not going to fight it. I'll post when I have something to post and not worry about a schedule. It's part of my overall shift in priorities that's going on right now. &#...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Jan 9, 2012, 7:00 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. I love having a lot of books, but there are just too many dead-tree books in this house. Last year I did a major culling of the herd but I think I'll have to do it again. We've got books that were read once, placed on a shelf, and never read again. Those are the o...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Jan 7, 2012, 11:03 am
Earlier this week I had the chance to read Blood and Fire (you can read my review here), the latest collaboration between Carrie Clevenger and Nerine Dorman. Carrie's half of the collab is her signature character, vampire Xan Marcelles. Xan will be the star of his own novel later this year wh...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Jan 2, 2012, 5:06 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. Self-publishing is something I've had mixed feelings about so I decided to try it and see what my opinion was after the fact. Basically, I still have mixed feelings about it, ha. I think that self-publishing is something a writer can do in addition to the va...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Dec 28, 2011, 8:05 am
First, a look back at my goals for 2011. Well, I didn't do so well with those. I did finish Red House, got it submitted, and it was accepted. I have not started Mojo 3 though I do have some ideas. As for Paranormal Beat - ugh. I've tried repeatedly to rewrite that but I can't get anythin...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Dec 21, 2011, 3:22 pm
For me, it's just not the holidays without Robert Earl Keen. Happy Yule, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Giftmas, Festivus - whatever you celebrate this time of year, I wish you glad tidings and joy!
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Dec 14, 2011, 10:00 am
I'm not feeling well today and all I have to report that's post-worthy is that there's a new chapter of Bradbury up, in which Eve learns about the Gateway Forest. To make up for my lack of a real post, I offer you Henry Cavill. I have no idea if he'll be a good Superman or not, but he's certainly n...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Dec 12, 2011, 5:00 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. When I reached the end of Mojo Queen I had some vague ideas about a sequel and kind of wanted to turn it into a series, but I wasn't sure how to do that. I still don't, but I'm writing this post anyway. First, a disclaimer: I really don't know what I’m doi...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Nov 2, 2011, 1:05 am
Hey fellow writers, I have a question for you - do you ever write out of order? Do you ever leave a scene barely outlined, move on to a scene you have a better grasp of, and go back later to finish that problem scene? I have never done that but I think about I'm to start. So far I've always wr...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 31, 2011, 4:00 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. Three things today: 1) Tomorrow is the start of National Novel Writing Month! I'm not participating this year as I've already got projects going, but I want to wish all the NaNo-ers the best of luck. Have fun, don't run out of coffee, and pace yourself - 166...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 26, 2011, 4:06 pm
Red House - Book Two in the Mojo Series Unofficial blurb: There's high water everywhere and she's about to drown on dry land. Roxie Mathis has lost her home and her livelihood to a devastating flood. She knows she's lucky to have someone to stay with - her vampire ancestor Daniel - but she wa...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 25, 2011, 1:01 am
Author Ashley M. Christman is here today to talk about her new release, NIGHTINGALE. Being Sidhe is hard, but a Sidhe without a heartbeat?  Life is lucrative and easy for Dr. Grace Caldwell--daughter of vampire father and fey mother--until her ex-boyfriend, FBI agent Jack Montgomery, blackmails h...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 20, 2011, 5:00 am
Paranormal romance author Caridad Pineiro is here today as part of her blog tour celebrating the release of THE LOST, the first book in her new series Sin Hunters. Adam Bruno is no ordinary millionaire. The heir to an ancient race possessing a dark, powerful magic, he can shapeshift and create ener...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 17, 2011, 2:00 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. Wordle is this neat site where you can create a word cloud from whatever text you want. You just copy, paste, and click go. You can edit the font, the colors, the orientation of the words, and the number of words. It's a great way to literally take a snapshot of your st...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 12, 2011, 11:00 am
It's Wednesday, time for a new chapter of The Bradbury Institute. This week's is one of my favorites because of the character interactions. Once I realized Pete was the hero (and not Knox as I'd originally intended) I started working on a back story for him. Something important was revealed in Chapt...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 4, 2011, 10:00 am
Is there anything more trite and insipid than the greeting cards at major retailers? Do you wish you could find something different, something creative, perhaps something a bit ... dark? I have got the Etsy story for you: my friend Melissa Walker's Immortal Visions Paper Crafts. Melissa - a writer, ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 3, 2011, 2:00 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. In the four years I've been writing seriously I've completed three novels, three works of novella length, and a NaNo novel that I think would be considered category length. Two works have been published. One was given a revise and resubmit, which I'm beginning to ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Oct 2, 2011, 1:26 am
This edition of Six Sentence Sunday is a preview from the next chapter of my paranormal web serial The Bradbury Institute. Set up: Eve has run into some trouble in downtown Frankfurt and now she's a little woozy from some unintended magic. Pete (Mr. Bad Attitude) has come to her aid, only to f...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 28, 2011, 10:00 am
The Bradbury Institute has hit a milestone - I've finished writing the first volume, The Key of Darkness. It came in at around 30, 600 words, novella-length territory there. I gave it a mildly cliffhangerly ending which I have been planning since Pete took over as the hero. Now I have to start plann...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 26, 2011, 4:00 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. Having recently finished my sixth book of either novella or novel length, I've now got short stories on the brain. I'm of the opinion that writing short stories can actually be harder than writing longer length stories. It requires a kind of precision and laser fo...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 23, 2011, 4:47 pm
Cross-posted from Write Club. Since writers tend to be nerdy and meta, most of us love stories about fictional authors. It's not all that unusual to find books where the main character is a writer. I think most of Stephen King's books are like that. Making your main character a writer might st...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 22, 2011, 1:27 pm
First up, the winner of Cassiel Knight's KEY OF SOLOMON is Marybelle. Enjoy it, Marybelle, I know it'll be a great read! As soon as this is posted I'll be sending your contact info to Cassiel so she can get the book to you. * Something I've been eagerly anticipating since it was announce...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 20, 2011, 6:00 am
... …except the one who walks in the dark. Relic Defender, Book 1 Anthropology PhD candidate Lexi ... I would have ended up doing. Because I was enamored of Tomb Raider, Relic Hunter and movies featuring treasure hunts, I knew that’s what I wanted ... I spent more time on research than writ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 16, 2011, 2:00 pm
Cross-posted at Write Club. As I write this it's Thursday evening and my mouth hurts from a trip to the dentist. I can still feel where the needle went in to numb the area in preparation for drilling a ginormous hole in my wisdom tooth and then refilling it with metal or perhaps drywall mud, I...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 13, 2011, 9:00 am
THE SECRET HISTORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLLThe Mysterious Roots Of Modern MusicBy Christopher Knowles Sex. Drugs. Loud music. Wild costumes. Pyrotechnics. These words all describe a rock concert or a hot dance club on a Saturday night, but they’re also equally appropriate descriptors for the ancient spiri...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 11, 2011, 1:01 am
This week I'm posting a snippet from a work in progress, Red House, the follow-up to Mojo Queen. Set-up: Paranormal investigator and hoodoo root worker Roxie has been hired to clean a house of a nasty infestation of ghosts. Now she is trapped in the house with her BFF/ancestor Daniel, her mayb...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 9, 2011, 10:00 am
Cross-posted from Write Club. I wanted to be a writer for many years before I actually was a writer. I knew I wanted to tell stories but I didn't know any of the things I needed to know. At least I was self-aware enough to know I didn't know. ;) I took a creative writing class at a nearby univ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 8, 2011, 9:00 am
Here's a couple of books I've enjoyed this past week that just happen to be written by friends. Death Sword by Pamela Turner The only thing more dangerous than an angel of death is one obsessed with vengeance.  Karla Black has always known she’s different from other people. She learns just how ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 6, 2011, 7:00 am
Author Silke Juppenlatz is on the blog today to talk about her love of music and her time working as a merchandiser for touring bands. She's got some great stories so let's get to it. * "Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, with...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 5, 2011, 9:00 am
Dolly Parton's Nine to Five is about workers trapped in a cubicle hell but I think it's a good song for all workers, whether you're in an air conditioned office or out on a factory floor. (Actually I associate this song more with office workers.) For whatever reason you don't find a lot of blue coll...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 4, 2011, 1:05 am
For this edition of Six Sentence Sunday I'm using the first six sentences of Mojo Queen. Since it's the very beginning I won't bother with set-up. I could feel the presence of spirits as soon as I crossed the threshold, a heaviness to the air, a tingling on the back of my neck. Telltale tracks of b...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 3, 2011, 5:42 pm
The Lyrical Press store is having a 50% off sale this weekend. Bring on the Night is marked down to $1.75 and Mojo Queen is $2.75. So if you'd like to give either book a try, or any other Lyrical authors, now is a great time to do so. ** Work continues on the second Mojo book. Here's a t...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Sep 1, 2011, 4:22 pm
A late night fit of whimsy led me to give the blog a makeover. Again. It's fun! I'm starting to think this is a seasonal thing, changing how the blog looks. Or maybe I only think that because of that cute little graphic in the header I like to call "BookWitch." She seems perfect for this time that h...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 31, 2011, 9:00 am
Exciting new blog feature! In which I tell you what books I am dying to read! But seriously, this first book sounds worthy not  only of exclamation points but possibly caps lock as well. I want this book so bad, I can hear it. And it sounds like low down dirty blues, my favorite. SOUTHERN GODSby J...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 30, 2011, 1:21 am
Please welcome friend and fellow author Sara-Jayne Townsend who is here to talk about what scares us and how we deal with it in fiction. THE EVOLUTION OF HORRORBy Sara Jayne Townsend The concept of what scares us has always interested me – which is probably one of the reasons why I write hor...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 29, 2011, 9:00 am
Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower has long been a favorite song. In addition to Dylan's original version I also like the version by U2 from their Rattle and Hum album, and of course what's considered the definitive version of the song by Jimi Hendrix. Recently I've been watching Battlestar Galact...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 26, 2011, 8:10 am
Mojo Queen got another great review, this time at Reading The Paranormal. "It was gritty, downright gross at times and twisted enough to keep me riveted.  More, please." Awesome. As for the "downright gross" part, I think she's probably talking about the thing with Daniel and the snakes. Heck, that...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 24, 2011, 3:28 pm
I feel like I fell in a hole for a few days because I haven't been blogging or tweeting much. Maybe the blog tour wore my brain out. I know I'm definitely tired of talking about Mojo Queen, at least for a while. ;) So I'm thinking I'll talk about other's people's books for a while. When I firs...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 21, 2011, 1:05 am
I'm back! I forgot to post last week - I blame Flaky Writer Syndrome (TM). It's actually Saturday afternoon as I get this ready, so I won't forget again tonight like I did last Saturday night. Yay for post scheduling! My six for this week are again a preview of the next chapter of my web serial The ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 19, 2011, 2:27 am
The Mojo Queen blog tour has drawn to a close. Thanks so much to all the blogs that hosted me! Let's get right to the giveaway winners, which were chosen by Random.org. Two winners of ebook copies of Mojo Queen:  MiciaWinnie  Ten winners of signed cover cards: Michelle B.Ruby M.LaurieluVictoria Z....
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 18, 2011, 8:19 pm
Just a quick post today - Here's a great new review of Mojo Queen from Romancing the Darkside. It's another one that I would like to quote the whole thing, it made me so happy. Go read it! Sorry for the lack of gratuitousness today, I didn't have time to go hunting down pics. I'll be su...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 17, 2011, 2:02 am
The latest chapter of Bradbury is up. In this one Eve more or less becomes a member of the institute, though still unofficially for now. This is chapter 8, I'll start working on chapter 18 probably this weekend. Right now it's a little shy of thirty thousand words and it's starting to veer off int...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 16, 2011, 9:00 am
Part of Elvis Presley's 1968 comeback special looked a lot like an early version of Unplugged, with Elvis and several of his old bandmates performing on a small stage in front of a live audience. Between songs they told stories and laughed and reminisced. It had been years since Elvis performed in f...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 15, 2011, 5:32 pm
Here are the last two stops (I think) on the Mojo Queen blog tour: All Things Books has an excerpt Roxanne's Realm has a guest post about how music, specifically blues, influenced the story. And of course you can enter the giveaways at both places and every other tour stop for the rest of the ...
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Sonya Clark posted an article on Sonya Clark - Aug 13, 2011, 3:03 am
More tour stops! At VampChix I'm talking about Daniel again, my favorite gentleman vampire. At Authors By Authors I have a guest post about authors that influenced me. At Getting Naughty Between The Stacks (which is an awesome blog title, by the way) I have a guest post about writi...
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