I resigned from my position as Executive Editor at Embrace Books in July 2011, in order to fulfil my own writing commitments elsewhere. To the best of my knowledge, Embrace Books has now closed.
Please contact the Directors at Salt Publishing for further details.
I'd like to thank all the writers with whom I have worked so closely over the past year, both for your professionalism and for the warmth of your friendship. It's been a privilege and an honour to edit so many exciting and well-written novels, and I know you will all continue your fabulous careers with other publishers, who will be lucky to have you aboard.
Jane Holland
Former Executive Editor: Embrace Books
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Showing posts with label embrace authors. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2011
Saturday, October 23, 2010
BL Bonita Interviewed
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| BL Bonita's "Pathway to Paradise" from Noble Publishing |
Our most recently acquired romance author at Embrace Books, multi-published Canadian author BL Bonita, has just been interviewed over at Happily Ever After Reviews.
Well done, BL, for a great interview! It was especially fascinating to hear all about your beautiful home in the Canadian wilderness, and how it has inspired so much of your writing.
If anyone has other news of Embrace authors out and about on the net, drop us a line and we'll post it up on the Embrace blog.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Obsessed? Join the Club.
I am a writer - and I still can't get over how much I love saying that! - so I love words. Big words, small words, words that coat your tongue like heather honey, words that snap like icicles or crackle like burning logs.
Scrumptious.
Can't get enough of them and that's not a problem when you've got one of these to dip into on a daily basis:
Well-thumbed beauty, isn't she? Bigger than the bible by my reckoning, so for today's lesson let's dip in and pick a word shall we? My turn first:
OBSESSION.
'An idea or thought that continuously preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind.'
Ah, I do like this one.
Any decent alpha male hero needs a touch of this to drive him on, to focus, achieve and become the successful man he is. Similarly, your heroine will need a good dollop to adhere to her principles and fight for what she believes in, in spite of the impossible temptation and choices she is facing.
They both suffer from the bittersweet hold of obsession when they are unable to resist each other and can't shake the need for their perfect mate. They become consumed, obsessed with wanting each other, with fighting that need until it brings them to their knees and speeds them on to their happy ever after ending.
And what about the author? The person who writes their story? Does he or she need to be obsessed to create this storm of emotion? To force them together, tear them apart, crush them and finally reconcile them in a satisfying way?
There's no doubt about it in my mind. If I wasn't so obsessed with writing I'd never have finished writing a book in the first place. Or the next one and a couple more after that. I would never have submitted either.
So, do you agree? Do you have to have a bit of an obsession to be a writer? Or is there another way? My family might want to know at some stage.
Well, here endeth the lesson. Drop us a line if you'd like us to feature a particular word in the future, otherwise I get to choose again (yessss!). But you've been very patient, so as a treat I'm going to share my current hero obsession:
David ...
Sigh. He's been top of the list for a couple of years now, I really think I need a cure.
He's become a bit of an addiction actually. Now there's a good word.
Scrumptious.
Can't get enough of them and that's not a problem when you've got one of these to dip into on a daily basis:
OBSESSION.
'An idea or thought that continuously preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind.'
Ah, I do like this one.
Any decent alpha male hero needs a touch of this to drive him on, to focus, achieve and become the successful man he is. Similarly, your heroine will need a good dollop to adhere to her principles and fight for what she believes in, in spite of the impossible temptation and choices she is facing.
They both suffer from the bittersweet hold of obsession when they are unable to resist each other and can't shake the need for their perfect mate. They become consumed, obsessed with wanting each other, with fighting that need until it brings them to their knees and speeds them on to their happy ever after ending.
And what about the author? The person who writes their story? Does he or she need to be obsessed to create this storm of emotion? To force them together, tear them apart, crush them and finally reconcile them in a satisfying way?
There's no doubt about it in my mind. If I wasn't so obsessed with writing I'd never have finished writing a book in the first place. Or the next one and a couple more after that. I would never have submitted either.
So, do you agree? Do you have to have a bit of an obsession to be a writer? Or is there another way? My family might want to know at some stage.
Well, here endeth the lesson. Drop us a line if you'd like us to feature a particular word in the future, otherwise I get to choose again (yessss!). But you've been very patient, so as a treat I'm going to share my current hero obsession:
David ...
Sigh. He's been top of the list for a couple of years now, I really think I need a cure.
He's become a bit of an addiction actually. Now there's a good word.
Rachel Lyndhurst is one of our new Embrace Books authors, and will be launching her contemporary romance 'Storm's Heart' in early 2011.
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