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Echo Falls Jaime McDougall is the author of the paranormal romance novel Echo Falls. Writing Daze caught up with Jaime recently and asked her some questions On Writing and Self-Publishing. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by her answers.  About Jaime McDougall  Jaime McDougall is a citizen of the world, currently loving life in beautiful country Victoria in Australia. She loves eating sushi, kidnapping her husband and naming her pets in honour of science fiction authors. A love of fiction has always coursed through her veins and she told stories as a child even before she knew how to write them. Settling into one genre was never her style and she has plans for novels in women’s fiction, urban fantasy and more – all with a touch of romance. She has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: High School: The Real Deal and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Campus Chronicles . She has also enjoyed writing the So You Want e-book series for authors looking to establish...

On Friday’s we ask our visiting authors to write about the fun things or laugh about it later things that happen during the writing and publishing of their novel. Today, U.L. Harper shares with us his funny moments.  About U.L. Harper Bio: U.L. Harper is an after-school program Site Director in Long Beach, California. Over one hundred students attend his program. He previously worked as a corporate manager, and a journalist for a now defunct news agency in Los Alamitos, California. Newspapers are part of his writing background but he also dabbled in poetry. His poetry is published in The Body Politic chapbooks. He is the author of In Blackness, The Flesh Statue and the short story book Guidelines for Rejects. You can visit U.L. at http://ulharper.com/   About In Blackness As children, Lenny’s and Saline’s parents brought them to Southern California to escape the nightmares. But after their parents die in a horrible car accident, their adoption by longtime family friend, B...

 Ever wonder what it's like in the day of an author?  Visit with Marica Lucia today and find out what it's like to be her for one day. Liberation Virtual Book Tour About Liberation: Book One of the Andrusian Chronicles   Amora Madre is content in the Smokey Mountains pursuing her teaching of love, things of the spirit, and metaphysics. Her childhood invisible playmates, Casey and Nia, are always by her side. But, when soul mate Gabriel Ephraim enters her life, she is drawn into the heart of a terrible encounter with the spirit world in the skies over Washington D.C.   Catapulted into service for the Intergalactic Supernatural Intelligence Agency, ISIA, the kindred lovers soon discover the existence of an invisible wickedness over the city, its galactic origins, and its evil designs for national and world events. As part of an Andrusian galactic strike force, assembled to dismantle the malevolent legion’s brutal matrix, Amora and Gabriel, seasoned and accompl...

Martin Sharlow was always a storyteller. In his youth he used to play roleplaying games and usually he was the game master. That allowed him to create and modify stories and then tell them to his captive audience in the form of a game. Because of this and the many fantasy books he read, Martin went the next step and started writing fantasy novels. Recently, however, Martin changed genres to vampire romance as he got bitten by the vampire bug. This happened after picking up one of the latest novels and finding himself hooked on it. Today Martin has written three vampire romance novels, and is in the process of writing many more. Martin currently lives in Vancouver, WA with two of his three children, who help to keep him grounded in reality. You can visit Martin Sharlow at http://www.wix.com/targoun/martin Visit Martin’s tour page at Pump Up Your Book . Friday Five - Five Fun Things About Writing and Publishing Shades of Twilight Shades of Twilight came into being after I got bitten by ...