USA Today bestselling author of adventurous urban fantasy that flirts with paranormal romance
Twenty-five years ago, when I first showed up at college, I immediately pored over the academic calendar. “Reading week!” I exclaimed, imagining seven solid days of curtailed classes and assignments. We’d all sit around on bean bag chairs, sipping hot chocolate, gorging on pizza, and reading silently. Now and then one of us would share…
While I strongly believe that you need to become good at your craft to succeed as an author, very few people will actually see your perfectly honed book unless you put in the time to get the book in front of the public’s hungry eyes. So part two of my series for aspiring authors covers the…
I have a feeling that, deep down inside, everyone who reads dreams of someday cranking out their own book. Just in case that’s a new year’s resolution of yours, I thought I’d run a series of posts over the next few weeks containing reviews of books and courses that helped take me from dreamer to…
Ever since letting the cat out of the bag that Aimee Easterling is the fiction-writing pen name of non-fiction author and homesteader Anna Hess, I’ve been pondering adding an actual photo to my bio. As a recovering camera-phobe, though, coming up with a shot that captured my fantastical side took some serious work. Add in…
Pretty soon, I’ll be posting the first chapter of Wolf Landing to get those digestive juices flowing. But, for now, I thought you might enjoy seeing shots of a few of the settings from the upcoming book. There are no spoilers for Wolf Landing in this post, but I’m assuming you’ve read the previous books…
Now that I’ve entered the digital age and joined facebook, I’m fielding a lot of questions from new and aspiring writers. Actually, some days seems like every one of my readers has a manuscript stashed away in their closet…which I shouldn’t find entirely surprising given the fact that my voracious reading habit is what made…
I generally don’t include an acknowledgements section in my books because I figure the average reader doesn’t particularly care how well my husband manages my pre-release meltdowns (“Everyone’s going to hate my baby! The sky is falling!”) and how ably my father hides his disdain of genre fiction when he picks apart plot holes in…
Some writers enter the field in adulthood. Not so for me. Both of my parents came out of college with English degrees, and our house was filled with books. I learned to read at four (and did such a good job my kindergarten teacher brought me to read to my brother’s second-grade class — my…