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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. Travel, swimming, watching movies, dancing, hiking, skiing, and a recent addiction to Wii Sports. |
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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 choose to phrase your feedback is equally vital (so perhaps the title of this blog should be It Ain’t Just What You Say, It’s Also the Way That You Say It). Optimism: Happily-Ever-After-the-End-of-The-WorldPosted by Vivi Andrews Nov 22 2011, 12:01 am in post-apocalyptic romance, Ruby Release A couple years ago I heard Jayne Ann Krentz (aka Jayne Castle & Amanda Quick) talk about the difference between genre fiction and literary fiction. In a word, it was optimism. The happy (or emotionally satisfying) ending is what draws the line in the sand between romance and romantic fiction. The killer will be captured, [...] Tips for Finaling in the Golden Heart: Single Title EditionPosted by Vivi Andrews Oct 12 2011, 12:01 am in craft, golden heart, writing tips Suspense, paranormal, regency… by now you’ve heard so many tips to final in various genres your head is probably spinning, but what about the subgenre without serial killers, supernatural evil or scandalous waltzes? Straightforward single title contemporary can be equally challenging in its own way and the 2009 finalists are here with some tidbits to [...] Love at First Sight is LamePosted by Vivi Andrews Sep 29 2011, 1:01 am in conflict Yep, I said it. Love at first sight is lame. It’s, dare I say, boring. Every time I read a contest entry starting off with Boy A seeing Girl B and thinking “Omigod, my soul burns with love for you!” and Girl B thinking, “Lo, I have found in Boy A the only man who [...] Formatting 101Posted by Vivi Andrews Aug 30 2011, 12:01 am in formatting, submission tips We all want to submit our best work, and when I was first starting out as a wet-behind-the-ears writer, that desire sometimes translated into hours spent agonizing over whether Times New Roman or Courier was the better font. I searched and searched for a definitive formatting guide to tell me which typefaces were going to [...]
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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.
