Rachel Morgan's Blog, page 26

Have you heard of IndieReCon? It's this awesome online writing conference focusing on Indie publishing. There will be LOADS of informative posts, live chats, tips, prizes -- and best of all, it's FREE! It's happening online at this address from Tues Feb 19th (which is TODAY) till Thurs Feb 21st.



And ... I'm pretty sure I don't have to ask if you've heard of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge! So. After telling everyone that I would NOT be taking part in the challenge this year, I developed a...

The Indelibles are hosting an INDIE-Kissing blog fest!
Share a smoochable scene from your current wip or published work; provide tips on writing kissing or romance scenes; list your favorite books, movies, etc (with kissing, of course); write about kissing - your first kiss, perhaps; or suggest ideas for an affordable romantic date night.

I'm not ready to share any smoochable scenes from the book I'm currently working on (but trust me, they are good!) so here's something from a book that's alre...

Come on. You knew I would try it out after I found those other animated covers! Now, I know it's very simple, just the twinkling stars, but I had to create 42 different images to get that effect! (Actually, I created a whole lot more images than that, but I decided the other stuff didn't look as nice.) And I think simpler is probably better - don't want it to be too distracting :-)
Anyway, what do you think?

Does music inspire your writing? It does for me, and probably for many other authors too. Today I'm hosting Charity Bradford, author of THE MAGIC WAKES. She'll be sharing the some of the songs that inspired her debut novel.

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Music has always played a huge part in my writing process. A good song can put me in the right emotional mindset to write a scene or give me an idea for a short story. The Magic Wakes was no different. Certain songs spoke to me. Saying they belonged to certain characters or...

I feel like I must have missed something, because I have never seen an animated book cover before! And they are completely awesome! I discovered them today when I came across a recent post on Adazing Design, Animated or Moving Digital eBook Covers, that showed these covers, among others.


Okay, so after a while it gets a little annoying, but it certainly grabs your attention, right? If you see that on the side bar of someone's blog, you'll take notice (unless they have tons of other flashing th...

Are you ready to meet the cover for Juliana Haygert's DESTINY GIFT, the first book in the EVERLAST series? Here it is! Isn't it pretty? You know I love purple ;-)

Thirty years in the future, a sinister New York City exists in permanent darkness.

A student at the secured NYU, nineteen-year-old Nadine has visions of Victor Gianni, an imaginary guy she has real feelings for. Afraid of being truly insane, she explains the visions away as simple daydreams, but she can no longer d...

I was recently tagged by Carole Anne Carr to participate in the Lucky 7 Meme, so I thought I'd take a few sentences from the Creepy Hollow book I'm currently working on. So I went to page 7, scrolled down to the 7th line, and copied the next 7 sentences. Not the most thrilling of teasers, but here they are in a screenshot from my Word document :-)


Click to enlarge (if it's too small for you to read!)
Thanks, Carole :-)

If you've got your current WIP handy, you could post your 7 sentences in the...

Take a look at three of the books I read and enjoyed recently :-)


Title: Poison
Author: Bridget Zinn

This is my kind of story - fantasy, kick-ass heroine, some humorous moments, a bit of romance, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Plus the adorable magic pig. Who doesn’t love that?!

THE GOOD: I liked the idea behind the magic of poisons and how they can been mixed and diluted for different effects. In fact, I would have enjoyed seeing more of that! The occasional flashbacks were slotted pr...

Most of you know that I’m a mathematics teacher. For the past three and a half years I’ve been working at this awesome school called Inanda Seminary. What I haven’t told you yet is that I’m no longer teaching there this year because I’m now married and living just a bit too far away to drive there every day. This is both sad (my students were awesome and I’m really going to miss them) and exciting (I have more time to write now!).

2012: So last year I was writing in my limited spare time and I...

Hello bloggers!

Last time I wrote a blog post I was a week away from one of the biggest days of my life – my wedding. Excited, anxious, tired, happy, occasionally freaked out, plus a whole lot of other emotions. At that point I hadn’t yet had my kitchen tea or bachelorette party (and was starting to wonder just how close to the wedding my sister had planned them!), we still had to set up EVERYTHING at the wedding venue (which happened during one of the hottest days last year) and, of course, t...