First Draft to Published

  Monday – Manic Monday – tell us about a day in the life of you the writer, what's your writing day like. Do you balance family and writing, or writing and a job outside the house, or writing, a job and family? What was it like for you to write this book along with your busy life? Manic Monday! from Christine E. Schulze I've heard that many authors have a set writing schedule of sorts. Some set aside a specific time to write everyday, while others give themselves a set word limit to complete throughout the week. For me though, I have always found such set routines far too limiting; they make the writing work, and although I do hope to make a living off my writing someday, I want it to come naturally. Writing has always been a passion, an enjoyable craft; I have loved honing and perfecting over the years. It has never been work--I have a day job for that. As a young child, I suppose I wrote alot of my books from start to finish; that's easy when they're only aro...

Manic Monday and the start of a new week and I can hear everyone cringe with less than enthusiasm. Today, we asked our visiting author, M.M. Bennett what’s on her To Do List for Monday to inspire and get us started on our week. If I had her schedule, “riding horses in the morning” I wouldn’t have the slightest hesitation to starting my week. The rest will surprise you. Keep reading! About Of Honest Fame On a summer night in 1812, a boy sets fire to a house in Paris before escaping over the rooftops. Carrying vital intelligence about Napoleon’s Russian campaign, he heads for England. But landing in Kent, he is beaten almost to death. The Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, is desperate for the boy’s information. He is even more desperate, however, to track down the boy’s assailant – a sadistic French agent who knows far too much about Castlereagh’s intelligence network. Captain George Shuster is a veteran of the Peninsula, an aide-de-camp to Wellington, now recalled from the continent ...