Featured Author

I’d like to welcome Juliet Chastain to my blog today.  A little about Juliet: As an ex-fashion photographer, Juliet Chastain says that, in a way, writing fiction is a lot like photography. She takes a few elements—models and clothes in photography, characters and setting in her writing—and makes them come alive in a compelling story. And now to the interview…. What is the easiest part of writing for you?  What is the hardest part? There is no part I’d describe easy. The hardest is usually getting that first draft on paper. But once in a while magic happens and it practically writes itself. Do you have any advice to aspiring writers? Just go ahead and write as though you were talking to a friend. Don’t get tied up in knots trying to sound literary. Name some of your favorite books. Pride and Prejudice, the first Harry Potter, Moby Dick, anything

I’d like to welcome Danica Avet who is the featured author for today. A little about Danica: Danica Avet was born and raised in the wilds of South Louisiana (that would be somewhere around Houma) where mosquitoes are big enough to carry off small children and there are only two seasons: hot and hotter. With a BA in History, she figured there were enough fry cooks in the world and decided to try her hand at writing. For eight years she played at writing, but in 2008, she decided to get serious and began down the rocky road to publication. Unmarried with no children, Danica is the lucky pet of a compulsively needy dog and two cats. The pitter-patter of little feet has been known to make her break out into a cold sweat. What has been the toughest criticism given to you as an author? Probably that my characters