My new website is now live. It is http://www.carolshenold.com. Please come by and leave a comment. The designer, Dee Owens did a great job. She runs a promotional service personalized marketing service through her website, www.deeowens.com. She has years of publishing business experience and is also a writer. Easy and fun to work with.
I love the dark look of the site and the contrast of the colors. Needless to say, I love the fairies, these are not your Tinker Belle Fairies.
Showing posts with label Fairies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fairies. Show all posts
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Let's Be Real
Gas, housing, gas, the stock market, loan entities, war, starvation! Plus security issues everywhere.
Why do you think I read and write fiction? I'd rather deal with the impossible like were wolves and vampires and murders that actually get solved. Good guys that win. Lovers that get back together. I want that perfect world with all the tied up ends. I don't want to know that good guys really aren't. I want happy endings, or at least hopeful ones.
Reality has always been the reason I read fiction. Not that my reality has ever been bad, I've been so blessed, no trauma, a happy childhood, no serious illnesses, injuries, disastrous love affairs. My marriage was good. Family not any more dysfunctional than most. Leaves me very little material for writing about so I had to resort to fantasy.
In my own created world, the worst I have to worry about are demons who get defeated, vampires and were wolves who are either good or dead, angsty(I know, not proper grammer) teen-age fairies, wizards who may or may not be evil. So, all in all, reality is highly over-rated because reality bites.
When I ponder the choices for writers, what genre is best, most publishable, should I be writing sweet romance (now there's a fantasy world), literary fiction, erotica, I know that what I write is what I'm happy writing, whatever the market pundits advise. Writing is one of my arts and I refuse to turn it into drudgery, even for money. That's why I stopped writing medical nonfiction for the moment. Burn-out. Had to write what I loved.
Why do you think I read and write fiction? I'd rather deal with the impossible like were wolves and vampires and murders that actually get solved. Good guys that win. Lovers that get back together. I want that perfect world with all the tied up ends. I don't want to know that good guys really aren't. I want happy endings, or at least hopeful ones.
Reality has always been the reason I read fiction. Not that my reality has ever been bad, I've been so blessed, no trauma, a happy childhood, no serious illnesses, injuries, disastrous love affairs. My marriage was good. Family not any more dysfunctional than most. Leaves me very little material for writing about so I had to resort to fantasy.
In my own created world, the worst I have to worry about are demons who get defeated, vampires and were wolves who are either good or dead, angsty(I know, not proper grammer) teen-age fairies, wizards who may or may not be evil. So, all in all, reality is highly over-rated because reality bites.
When I ponder the choices for writers, what genre is best, most publishable, should I be writing sweet romance (now there's a fantasy world), literary fiction, erotica, I know that what I write is what I'm happy writing, whatever the market pundits advise. Writing is one of my arts and I refuse to turn it into drudgery, even for money. That's why I stopped writing medical nonfiction for the moment. Burn-out. Had to write what I loved.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Celtic
Rinda's post http://relliott4.wordpress.com got me thinking about cultures and how everything Celtic has been a part of my life since I was a kid. I think I lived other lives that took place in Ireland, Scotland, Wales. Celtic music, especially in Gaelic, speaks to me. It has since I was small. I was also brainwashed by movies like "How Green was my Valley," "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," "The Quiet Man.
I've written three different types of books and yet a main character in each has had red hair (shades of Maureen O'Hara.) The idea of fairies, magic, leprechauns, banshees fascinates me. I've always wanted them to be real enough for me to actually meet or see. Not just the legends, but the county itself, the landscape, people make you believe anything is possible there.
That's what I want to have in my books, the feeling that all things are possible, believable and could happen, good or bad. Even when bad things happen, it's not so much what happened as how you dealt with it. My characters won't always have only good things happen, but I hope they handle them with courage and grace.
I've written three different types of books and yet a main character in each has had red hair (shades of Maureen O'Hara.) The idea of fairies, magic, leprechauns, banshees fascinates me. I've always wanted them to be real enough for me to actually meet or see. Not just the legends, but the county itself, the landscape, people make you believe anything is possible there.
That's what I want to have in my books, the feeling that all things are possible, believable and could happen, good or bad. Even when bad things happen, it's not so much what happened as how you dealt with it. My characters won't always have only good things happen, but I hope they handle them with courage and grace.
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