History is getting....UNDONE!

These short stories sound fascinating.  I just won Nicola's in a contest and had the opportunity to download it last night.  It was late and I was tired, so didnt' start it as I know I would have to finsih it if I started it as is the case with other Nicola books I've read .  Am at work this morning and have a full day, but I'm looking forward to diving into it this evening.  Looking forward to also getting the rest of them...  but I have to do them one at a time or I will read them all one after the other and there goes my evening, plus I have to read them on my computer (which I usually don't mind since I can take the laptop on the bed, but nothing beats curling up with a real book!)   I have been known to stay up until the wee hours reading then having to go to work the next day is a real chore!

Christa--I'm glad you enjoyed the stories!  If you have any questions, feel free to ask away.  The other authors will be stopping in soon.

Papaya--we'll also be giving away a free download to one lucky commenter this week, so you're already entered to win another.  Or if you already have them, you're welcome to pass it onto a friend.

I've been meaning to download these stories and now I'm so intrigued! I love novella's and short stories. Some days I don't have much time to read, so something I can devour in an hour is perfect. 

what did you find was the biggest difference was writing a full length book compared to the Undone?

Was it difficult not to make the story seem rushed?

I'm so pleased you liked Lady Loveless, jv! It was a lot of fun to write. Christa was asking about the challenges and I think the thing that I find tricky with short stories is to give the characters as much depth as you would in a full length book. There's not as much time to establish them and to give their relationship a strong foundation so in order to create a fully rounded story I think you need to jump straight in and make it very intense right from the start.

Rae--It was incredibly exciting for me, since I'm a relatively new author.  I really hope the new line does well, since I tend to like sexy historicals (I adored Johanna Lindsey when I was growing up).

Christa, it felt great. I was so excited to be asked. One of the best things though was a chance to actually work with other authors. I felt like I really got to know Ammanda and Michelle and Nicola. We e-mailed back and forth a lot when we planned the virutal tour and it was great. I was kind of bummed when the project was done because we couldn't go out for a drink and celebrate the culminating results, it was that much fun. I can hardly wait for the next time around.  It also gave me great ideas about how to work out my own virtual tour when I am on my own. It was a good thing for me to go through the technology behind the virtual tour with a group for support. I'm pretty new yet and I had never done blogs and sent them to people to post and things like that. So it was a fun and useful learning experience.

I think as of now we're going to pass on DC . We had originally hoped  to take all the kids with us and turn it into a family trip since Rowan will be in 5th grade next fall and that's the DC unit in social studies. But I think some other items have conspired against us. We are assertively taking steps to take the kids to London for the 2012 Olympics and then do a Chunnel trip. Rowan's been to London before  but the others haven't and none of them have been to France with us. The Baby will be 7 by then and that should be amazing trip. The second factor is my work schedule in my other life. As many know, I am a full time college professor, I am also the 'department chair' for Communication Studies and theatre at my college and we're opening a multimillion dollar arts and theatre complex winter 2010 so I am spending a ton of time around the year at meetings about equipment, curriculum for the new theatre department etc. So I will be working full time this summer at the college. I worked last summer too but was able to squeak in the San Francisco conference because it was so close. However, should I make the RITA finals (which is always a long long shot) I'll zip to DC just in case.   Gotta go put the kids on the school bus!

Bronwyn/Nikki

I loved all of those stories!  They're better than chocolate.  I can pretend I'm working here in my office and not gain a pound.

Angel and MickiB--glad you both enjoyed the stories!

For me, the historical detail is fun, but I never want it to sound like a history lecture...just something to give you a taste of the setting and time period.  It's fun to base a story on real events.

And yes, there will only be one a month afterwards...unless sales are good, in which case, they may increase it.  We'll see.

Jane, if you're around, we should probably do the drawing for the free download.  Could you choose a winner?  (And if you already downloaded the stories, you could always give it to a friend to try.)