Ravenous Romance Author Blog
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| Ryan Field |
| Follow Up on Lasting Love Submissions... |
| 2009.02.17 21:49:48 | |
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After the post about all the great submissions for the Lasting Love anthology, I had to follow up with this short post. As I said, all the submissions were good, and I have a feeling that the one I didn't actually get a chance to read was good, too. I'll explain. Last Friday afternoon I received a last minute e-mail from a writer who wanted to submit for the anthology, but didn't see the call for submission until that week. The deadline was Saturday, and the writer wanted to know if they could submit early the following week. They couldn't submit on Saturday because of religious reasons, and apologized a thousand times. So I replied and said they could submit on Monday or Tuesday. I wasn't sure if I'd be working on Sunday (I did anyway) so there would still be time early in the week to read the short story. I don't know how other editors feel, but when someone contacts me at the last minute with a well written e-mail and a good voice, I'm curious and I want to know more about them. As it turned out, this writer didn't get a chance to submit anything because of the time factor. And I understood that; I've been there myself. The writer e-mailed me after reading the Lasting Love post I wrote, and explained this in another well written, professional e-mail. So if this writer is reading this post, I'm hoping they continue to follow the ravenous romance calls for submissions, because now I'm really curious. Tags: Lasting Love | follow up | writers | submissions Hits: 541 | Read more... |
Ravenous Romance Author Blog
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| Lilah Rune |
| Where do I find my ideas? |
| 2009.01.16 22:20:38 | |
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Where do I find my ideas? Everywhere! I jump off on tangents, one after the other. Just there, up above, I accidentally typed "w-e-r-e" instead of "w-h-e-r-e" in everywhere. (Of course I went back and fixed it.) But my first thought wasn't were, as in was, past tense, we were, I was, but were, as in were-wolf, were-bear. Pronounced "where". I guess that's why I typed it originally. You might be wondering what this has to do with finding ideas. So, the tangent hopping had me visualizing hopping from log, to log, to log. Where might such a thing happen? Where are there logs? Who would be hopping from log to log? (Besides a frog...) Perhaps a contest for the strongest, most agile, muscular man in a female dominated society.... Where women rule and men are just physical labor.... But what if a ruler in this land falls in love with a man, a were-man, who is really something else when he isn't with her? What could he be? What if she values his counsel, and actually heeded his advice, but she would be publicly hanged if found out? But she cannot possibly give up his touch. His caresses. His tongue lashings. Who would have such a tongue? Perhaps a snake; a pronged tongue to lick her most sensitive places. And who wouldn't listen to counsel when being lavished this way? Perhaps he is a spy to win back man's place in society.... To put women back in bondage... What if she is the lynch-pin to the undoing of all woman-kind? This is starting to sound like an erotic version of the Garden of Eden. I just need an apple. Loads of stories used apples, even Snow White... All that from a typo. And I don't even think there's much there... yet.... Hmmmm. Typo. Type O. I'm type O. I wonder if that would be the Cristal among vampires? Excuse me, I have some tangents to follow.... Please join me in my virtual imagination by leaving a comment, question, or thought. Tags: ravenous romance | writing | inspiration | erotic romance | sex | writers | vampires | blood | ideas | apples | typo | virtual
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