by Laura K Curtis | Jul 19, 2014 | Books, Writing
I love conferences. Love them. But every year, I hear about someone who is no longer speaking to someone else because person 2 insulted person 1—or possibly insulted person 3 who is a friend of person 1—or because person 2 felt as if person 1 ignored them in favor of...
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 17, 2014 | Books, Romance, Writing
Many of you know I will be publishing my first contemporary romance this summer. This is my cover. Isn’t it pretty? And here’s the cover copy: Good girl gone bad… Evie Bell couldn’t wait to get out of the small town that had labeled her a goodie...
by Laura K Curtis | Jun 8, 2014 | Books, Romance, Writing
When I tell people that I’ve never written a query that didn’t result in a request for pages, they can’t believe it. When I tell them I ever sent out three (or six if you count the random assignments I was given to pitch to at conferences) queries,...
by Laura K Curtis | May 31, 2014 | Stuff!, Writing
Are you an author? If so, and if you’re planning on going to Bouchercon, you should sign up today! Why? Because if you don’t sign up by June 1, you won’t be on a panel! So run over to Bouchercon 2014 — Murder at the Beach right now and then come on...
by Laura K Curtis | May 20, 2014 | Books, Romance, Writing
Can you tell I am just a tiny bit excited? Maybe even more so than I was for my debut. There’s something about the story of Lost that resonates for me in odd ways. You can see an excerpt from the book on my site, and I am trying to come up with something cool to...
by Laura K Curtis | May 3, 2014 | Books, Writing
At the Edgar Awards the other night, I was talking to a friend about a debut book that had garnered quite a bit of acclaim a few years ago, but which neither of us had finished. The reason I couldn’t finish the book turned out to be the same as the reason she...
