Romance Weekly | Dani Jace. Romance Author

This week’s questions for our author group are from Beth Carter. Hope you’ve already visited with Carrie Elks. Now, let’s get to it:

What’s your favorite aspect of novel writing? Dialogue? Setting? Conflict? Narration? Explain.

I enjoy dialog and it shows in my writing style. It’s fun to work in verbal irony because most people say one thing and mean another. I try to weave setting and conflict in during character interaction. I tend to use narration in sequels after a scene ends in conflict. I love to write snarky dialog and internal monolog. Having worked in such an environment for a long time, I learned sarcastic humor that’s now serves me.

The original Dune Burger on the Outer Banks in the Town of Nags Head. Jennette’s Pier is located across the beach road.

How do you choose the setting for your plot? Are they always similar settings or does it vary? (i.e., small town, big city, castle, etc.) I write contemporary and have based my brand on local beach areas in coastal Virginia and North Carolina. Thus far, I’ve only set my characters in suburbia or small towns. Although the Outer Banks is far from small town anymore, my hero is a firefighter in the area, which has a small public safety community, and lends to a small town feel.

I’m a big six-word memoir fan. (Hemingway even wrote one.) Describe your writing day using just six words.

Coffee, computer, and gnashing of teeth.

My novella, White Doe, turns a year old this week and is 99c on Amazon. I’ll be interviewing Shane, my hero on Cocky Confessions this Friday. Stop by and see what a sexy, Native American shifter has to confess 😉 Now it time for your to check out Mikki Cober answers.

This week’s questions are from Ronnie Allen. Hope you’ve already visited with Veronica Forand

When do you decide that you’ve done enough editing and changes would now be making it different, not better? So it’s the time to submit.

Being in a critique group helps. Most of the last novel I finished had been critiqued by the group and then I asked my PRO mentor to go through it again. Now I’m letting it sit while I finish a novella. Being away from the book for a few weeks will help me see the story with fresh eyes and then I’ll run through one more time before submitting.

When and how do you accept change advice by rejection letters and critique partners?

Rejections from publishers are hard to decipher even if they give you a reason, as most site generalities like – It wasn’t engaging. This can mean many things. It wasn’t until joining a critique group and having a multi-published author line edit me did I really understand my writing issues. Hopefully, I’ve corrected most of them. I’ll see soon enough when my first edits return from my Lyrical editor.

When you’re not writing, how do you spend your day or do you create your day around your writing?

I work full time and write during evenings and weekends. My husband and I are more or less homebodies so it works out. Writing is a large part of my life, but it doesn’t stop me from engaging in real life. Writing supplements the mundane day to day. Getting into a story I’m writing is more exciting than anything I could be watching on TV.

Veronica Forand has a new release in October with Susan Scott Shelly titled, Tackled by the Girl Next Door. It’s about a football player and I can’t wait!!!