Don’t read your reviews is what every author tells every other author. Guess what every author does? We read our reviews. Don’t respond to your reviews, is the other thing authors tell each other. This one is hard but necessary. Apparently even saying ‘thank you’ to nice reviews makes you look like a creep, and […]
Read MoreThere are authors out there who are brimming with so many ideas they are able to write every single one of their books in the exact same genre. I actually heard one author of my acquaintance say ‘I’ve got a great idea but it’s not in my genre’. I’m not one of those authors. My plot […]
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Somewhere in the latter half of 2011, while standing in the shower I had a flash of an image. These happen on occasion, I usually get the start of stories out of them. In this freeze frame image a man in a suit sat on the edge of a hospital bed, looking away from the […]
Read MoreCreated by the amazing Tiferet Design. Arthur Drams works for a secret government security agency, but all he really does is spend his days in a cubical writing reports no one reads. After getting another “lateral promotion” by a supervisor who barely remembers his name, it’s suggested that Arthur try to ‘make friends’ and ‘get […]
Read MoreOriginally written by request for Heart to Heart, Romance Writers of New Zealand, April 2017, ISSN:1178-3929, Heroines Special Edition. I was once asked how I write same-gender romances. It was the Sunday of conference, I was tired and more than a little hungover so I quite glibly answered ‘pick a gender and write it twice’. […]
Read MoreThis morning I went to see my chiropractor. He’s a generally nice guy, we’ve got kids about the same age. He knows what I do and asks me if it’s going to be a slouching over my desk day, or chasing after a large, strong, active, three-year-old day. Basically, how am I going to undo […]
Read MoreI am dyslexic. I’ve blogged about it before and it is stated in my bio. I’m also a writer. To most people these two things don’t go together. How can someone be a writer if they can’t read or spell or do anyone of dozens of things people who know nothing about dyslexia assume? In […]
Read MoreLast Saturday night Empty Nests and Bowerbirds tied for second in the 2016 Koru Awards, Long Romance section, given by the Romance Writers of New Zealand. I was told (but not by someone on the awards committee so I can’t be sure) that this was the first time they had a same gender novel submitted. […]
Read MoreI’m currently at about half through draft one what should be my next book. The word count stands at 49,685 words. We’re going to play guess the final word count! It’s like guess the jelly beans. Send an email to adamariasoto@gmail.com with “Windsor Knot Word Count” in the subject line, and your guess as to […]
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I have a favourite fanfic series, actually I have several, but there is one in particular that warms my heart and I end up reading at least once a year in spite of its massive word count. I’m not going to name it here because it is, frankly, kinda bad. And yet not. The stories […]
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