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Ruby Nickname:Arctic Ruby Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska Age: 30 GH Year(s) 2009 Completed Manuscript(s) Twenty-ish. Genre(s): Contemporary & Paranormal Romance Started Writing: 1993 Day Job: Writing full time (since 4/2009) For Fun: READING. Writing, swimming, watching movies, dancing, hiking, skiing, and a recent addiction to Wii Sports. |
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Make It RomanticPosted by Vivi Andrews Feb 9 2012, 12:01 am I have a confession to make. I’m addicted to The Bachelor. (And I blame Lincee Ray who sucked me in with her hilarious episode recaps.) Every Monday my DVR fills up with two hours of this jaw-droppingly bizarre social-experiment approach to falling in love. There’s always the villain, the good-girl everyone loves but you know he won’t pick (being groomed for her own spin-off show, of course), and more than a few embarrassingly desperate-to-find-love girls with awkward “romantic gestures” (scrapbooking, anyone?). But above all, there are the most over-the-top, cliche, forced, uber-”romantic” dates. See, I have a macabre fascination with The Bachelor, but romantic it ain’t. And, strange as this may seem, I think as romance writers there’s an important lesson there about fabricated romance versus the genuinely romantic. Ruby Debut Release: Heiress Without a Cause by Sara RamseyPosted by Vivi Andrews Jan 23 2012, 12:01 am in author interview, debut, historical romance, Regency, Ruby Release, Sara Ramsey Today I’m thrilled and privileged to host our very own Sara Ramsey as we discuss her inaugural release, the fun and fabulous regency romance Heiress Without a Cause. After winning the Golden Heart in 2009 and being named a finalist again in 2011 (with the first two books she wrote, but lets all pretend we [...] Taglines and Brands: Defining YourselfPosted by Vivi Andrews Jan 12 2012, 1:01 am A reviewer or a commenter on a popular blog compares the new release from Amazing Best-seller X to one of your books. A lady waiting to pay for her tomatoes in the grocery store overhears two readers gushing about your awesomeness at the checkstand. You meet Big Editor Z at a conference and hand her [...] The Ruby Prophecy, 2012 EditionPosted by Vivi Andrews Jan 5 2012, 12:01 am About a year ago, in a playful prognosticating frenzy, we had a blog post predicting the wild and wonderful things 2011 would hold. Well, the year is behind us and while our more far out predictions (Mariners-Nationals World Series, anyone?) didn’t come to pass, we did actually hit pay-dirt with a few of our prophecies…(Check [...] It Ain’t What You Say, It’s the Way That You Say It: A Discussion on Critiquing & JudgingPosted by Vivi Andrews Dec 14 2011, 1:00 am in contest judging, critiques, handling criticism I’m a stickler for semantics. To be perfectly honest, it baffles me how we writers can be careless with our words – especially when communicating with other writers who are going to pick apart every last syllable for clues and nuances. Yes, the feedback you give is important, but in my opinion the way you [...]
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Vivi Andrews was born and raised in Alaska, and still lives in the Last Frontier when she isn’t bouncing around the globe. After graduating from Northwestern University, Vivi tested out a variety of careers—from the movie industry to accounting—but kept coming back to her first two loves, writing and travel. She lived in nine cities—on two continents and one tropical island—while pursuing her dream of writing romance professionally.
