Joan Swan

Welcome to guest author Elisabeth Naughton
A previous junior-high science teacher, Elisabeth Naughton now writes sexy romantic adventure and paranormal novels full time from her home in western Oregon where she lives with her husband and three children. Her debut release, Stolen Fury, heralded by Publisher’s Weekly as “A rock-solid debut,” was recently nominated for two [...]

Welcome to our guest author, Diane Stuckart
Diane’s mysteries and romances have been published in Italy, Romania, Germany, Poland, Japan, and the Netherlands, in addition to the US and the UK. A native Texan with a Journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma, Diane finally left the plains of North Texas for the beaches of South [...]

How do readers choose the books they buy?
It was a topic that came up on our Yahoo board recently, stemming from the original subject of promotion, and some of the comments/answers surprised me.
As a writer whose agent is shopping her manuscript at this moment, I am naturally looking toward my future, anticipating marketing and promotional [...]

Has anyone every asked you if you’re afraid of having someone steal your story? I have been asked this very question. Several times.
At first, I used to laugh and say, “Good luck to them. I sure as hell couldn’t sell it.”

Hello, my name is Joan Swan and I’m a writing-related gadget addict.
It’s a rather recent problem, since I went back to work full time and have both more money to spend and more excuses to spend it on anything and everything that might enhance my writing productivity, because, of course, I have less time to [...]