Eclectic Unicorn's Book Reviews

If the writing genie comes to my door?   I'm sure that my hopes and dreams are all authors' hopes and dreams. So I think this might be a fun post to write. I don't think it's going to be a long one, but fun nevertheless. If the Writing Genie would come to my door, grant me three wishes for my writing career, what would I choose, and why? First of all, to make marketing super easy and super fun. Okay, it is fun most of the time. Still, it takes up a lot of time to thoroughly do marketing plans for all of your books. Let's face it. If we do not do marketing, nobody will know about the book that we had written. So that would be my first wish to make marketing easy. Hahaha, and less time-consuming. My second wish...to never run out of fantastic ideas. You need terrific ideas to write books, and sometimes I get one hell of an idea, but the story just doesn't want to come. I do not want that. I want fleshed out ideas and know what and how to write the story as it shou...

  My first ever completed manuscript, how you felt about it then and now.   I started to get the idea of becoming a writer at 29. It was about eleven years ago. My mother told me that I was thirteen when I said to her that I want to become a writer. I completely forgot about that, and I kid you not when she asked me then what my surname was going to be, I told her Woods. It's incredible how things stuck in the back of our sub-conscience for so long and become part of our decisions when we make them. Jumping forward again to my twenty-nine-year-old self. Firebolt was my first completed manuscript. Although I didn't get an agent for it, I got a publisher. My experience with the said publisher was terrific at the beginning. Still, as the year progressed, it became a nightmare, but this is not what this blog post is about. My blog post is about my first manuscript, called Firebolt. It took me three years, yip, three whole years to write it. I've learned the most about...