Darynda Jones |
| Ruby Nickname: | Ruby Red Riding Hood | | Biography: |  Winner of the 2009 Golden Heart® for Best Paranormal Romance for her manuscript FIRST GRAVE ON THE RIGHT, Darynda can't remember a time when she wasn't putting pen to paper. She's literally been writing since before she could write. When she was five, she would pick up a pencil and notepad, scribble a story onto the page and ask her mom to read it. Thankfully, her mother would play along.
She wrote her first manuscript in high school, though she never quite finished it and started writing seriously in 2002. Three complete manuscripts later, she won a 2009 Golden Heart, landed an amazing agent and sold to St. Martin's Press in a three-book deal.
Darynda lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband of more than 25 years and two beautiful sons, aka the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys. | | Hometown: | Portales, NM | | Age: | Old enough | | GH Year(s) | 2009, baby! | | Completed Manuscript(s) | 3 | | Genre(s): | Paranormal/Urban Fantasy; Young Adult; Historical | | Started Writing: | Age 5 :) Wrote first ms in high school. Seriously started working toward publication 7 years ago. | | Day Job: | Sign Language Interpreter | | For Fun: | Read; Write; Hang with family; Tell self repeatedly, “I need to start exercising.” | | Favorite Ruby Slipper: | Strappy sandal | | Website: | http://www.daryndajones.com | | Blog: | http://www.darynda.wordpress.com | | Twitter: | darynda | | Facebook: | Darynda Jones | | MySpace: | http://www.myspace.com/darynda |
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FREE-FOR-ALL FRIDAY!
By: Darynda Jones on February 26, 2010 at 1:52 am
Filed in: blog |
Welcome to the Ruby Slippered Sisters Free-for-All Friday!
I thought for this Friday we could discuss what makes good dialogue and have an open forum for questions and suggestions on dialogue problems. I love crisp, snappy dialogue that keeps the reader on the edge of her seat. Great comebacks are the best. Observations dripping with sarcasm [...]
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FREE-FOR-ALL FRIDAY!
By: Darynda Jones on January 29, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed in: blog |
Welcome to the Ruby-Slippered Sisters Free-for-All Friday!
You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Or, at the very least, suggestions. One of the great things about being a writer is all the amazing support there is out there. Most writers are more than willing to offer advice and a helping hand. And every Friday, the Ruby Sisters [...]
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Black Friday Affair
By: Darynda Jones on November 27, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed in: Misc, blog |
A Black Friday Affair
“Hey, that’s mine,” Andrea said as she looked up, way up, into the sexiest eyes she’d ever seen. Unfortunately, they belonged to the very man she was going to have to kill. Or at least maim. She’d been waiting weeks for Black Friday, knowing the electronic game her niece wanted more than [...]
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A Recipe for Golden Heart Success (from someone who never cooks)
By: Darynda Jones on October 13, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed in: Golden Heart, blog |
Okay, I’m lying. I cook. Just not often. And certainly not enough to give advice on the process. But take it from someone who’s entered the Golden Heart repeatedly, who’s studied winning entries for content, word choice and that special spark, and who’s dreamed of finaling more often than she’d like to admit, this is [...]
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