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A Holiday Gift
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Dear readers, as a Christmas gift, of sorts, to the fans here and as a way of apologizing to all for being such a turd bucket from time to time when commenting here ...
nancycole - 2015/12/19 - 9:56am - 1 comment
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Lesson Learned
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I had hoped the posting of The English Courtesan, which is nothing more than a story about two people, separated by centuries, who are struggling to come to terms w ...
nancycole - 2015/09/26 - 10:18pm - 9 comments
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Character Sketch, Another Approach
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing There is more than one way to keep track of your character and their characteristics, as evidenced by the comments made in response to my previous blog entry concer ...
nancycole - 2015/03/24 - 9:34am - 1 comment
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Character Sketch
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing When starting a new work, I take the time to develop my character, sometimes spending an entire day working up the character, his or her background, habits, prefere ...
nancycole - 2015/03/11 - 8:27am - 11 comments
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Talk About Life Imitating Art
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing In my story ‘ A Different Kind of Courage,’ I have Amanda Newly serving as a summer intern on a project that is testing a computer driven excavator. Sci-fi stuff, r ...
nancycole - 2015/01/22 - 11:23pm - 6 comments
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Adding Books to Kobo
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I have begun the process of adding my TG centric works to Kobo, a company founded in 2009 that has become a world leader in eReading. The charm of Kobo is that they ...
nancycole - 2014/09/07 - 7:44am - 1 comment
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It Helps to Know Where You’re Going
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Recently a maxim I like to adhere to when writing was brought home to me in a most dramatic fashion. When writing, I have found it helps immeasurably to have a clea ...
nancycole - 2014/08/31 - 4:52pm - 5 comments
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Word of the Day
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing From the Urban Dictionary; ...
nancycole - 2014/08/23 - 9:32am - 4 comments
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Who’s the Fairest of Them All
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing From time to time I ask myself which character I created is my favorite. Often I enter this quite, internal debate with a preconceived notion already in mind, one t ...
nancycole - 2014/08/19 - 3:10pm - 6 comments
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Sale on Lulu.com
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Caution: CAUTION Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing There is a 20% sale going on at Lulu.com on printed books thru 28 July. Even if you pass by the offerings Persephone and I have there, take advant ...
nancycole - 2014/07/28 - 12:59am
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What are the Chances?
Author: Nancy Cole nancycole's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing So there I was, wandering about the suburbs of an English city when, lo and behold, I see a sign on a pub that makes me laugh. Of course I could not resist going in ...
nancycole - 2014/07/23 - 1:09pm - 1 comment
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The Unwritten Chapter
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) CAUTION: Unsolicited Opinion In the movie ‘ The Poseidon Adventure, ’ one of the characters sings a song, ‘The Morni ...
nancycole - 2014/06/15 - 5:43pm - 1 comment
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Story Tellers, Writers, and Hacks
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Caution: More Bloviating From Wikipedia; ...
nancycole - 2014/05/26 - 5:47pm - 14 comments
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Happy endings are not always the best call
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Caution: Excessive Bloviating In a story I am contributing to together with my Anglo-Irish literary shadow, I imagin ...
nancycole - 2014/05/22 - 10:42pm - 10 comments
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'Turn,' An AMC series about Revolutionary War spies
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) The new AMC series ' Turn ' is the story of a Revolutionary War spy ring based on Long Island. It is descr ...
nancycole - 2014/04/07 - 12:49pm - 4 comments
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THE 6th ANNUAL NEW YORK RAINBOW BOOK FAIR
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) This annual event will be held on Saturday, 29 March 2014, Noon–6pm Holiday Inn Midtown 440 W. 57th Street, NYC (bet ...
nancycole - 2014/03/21 - 2:44pm - 2 comments
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‘Caitlin’ by HW Coyle now on Kindle
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Just in time for both St. Patrick’s Day and the Centennial commemoration of the First World War. ‘Caitlin’ is the st ...
nancycole - 2014/03/13 - 2:06pm - 2 comments
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Another Story Done
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Another Story Done Well, almost done. I’ve one more run to make on ‘ The World Turned Upside Down,’ before I am read ...
nancycole - 2014/01/18 - 4:30pm - 5 comments
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On Kindle and Lulu.com
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) We interrupt this blog for a special news alert! ...
nancycole - 2013/12/10 - 12:14am - 4 comments
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‘The Other Side of the Wire’ is now on Kindle and Lulu.com
nancycole's blog Author: Nancy Cole Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) The fourth work of fiction set in the Second World War depicts life in Nazi Germany from 1935 on. It was inspired by ...
nancycole - 2013/12/04 - 12:10pm - 1 comment