Please welcome Eli Easton! Eli wrote a wonderful historical romance for the Goodreads Love Has No Boundaries event (which means you can download for free!). Eli is also the talented artist who made the lovely cover for Treasure. Going Medieval on Your Ass – “The Lion and the Crow” By Eli Easton Like many writers, …
If you’ve read Good Bones, you know that among the challenges facing Dylan is to design a house for Cassidy and Pomegranate, the futon queens. Their futon factory plays a part in my (free!) short story, The Gig. While Cass and Pom are purely fictional, the inspiration for their business is real: my sister-in-law has …
I’ve been in Iowa City to attend the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. I’ve had a wonderful time with a couple of workshops–and come up with some plot bunnies I’m really excited about. Which makes sense, given the number of rabbits hopping around this city’s lawns. That’s the old capitol (from before Iowans decided to legislate …
I fall in love with all my characters–even the villains. But some have a special place in my heart. Brute is one of those. He was created a bit by accident. I’d begun with the idea of a blind prisoner who dreamed people’s deaths. Then I began to imagine what sort of man might serve …
In my novella Speechless, Travis has a cat named Elwood. The two have a lot in common. They’re both half-blind, they both had kind of tough beginnings before they found each other, and neither is a sensitive type, at least on the surface. And eventually they both fall for Drew. Elwood was inspired by a …
One of the things I enjoy when I write is including little details that set the mood or place, or that tell us something about the characters. Many of these details are inspired by things I happen to come across. A good example of this is doughnuts. In both Good Bones and Buried Bones, the …