Vivi Andrews |
| Ruby Nickname: | Arctic Ruby | | Biography: |  Vivi Andrews was born and raised in Alaska (yes, really), which led to her ongoing love affair with Duct Tape (the most useful substance ever invented). A nomad by nature, she has lived in nine cities (on two continents and one tropical island) and held over a dozen very odd jobs while honing her skills as a writer.
Vivi began writing over fifteen years ago, but it took her a while (read as: a decade) to work up the gumption to attempt publication. In 2007, she decided to make a career of it and joined Romance Writers of America. In 2009, she sold her first novella, The Ghost Shrink, the Accidental Gigolo & the Poltergeist Accountant, to Samhain. She has since sold six more paranormal romances to Samhain and continues to write in a variety of romance sub-genres. Vivi won the 2009 RWA® Golden Heart Award for Best Single Title Contemporary Manuscript, has won multiple other RWA contests and remains an active member of her local chapter. | | Hometown: | Anchorage, AK | | Age: | 29 | | GH Year(s) | 2009 | | Completed Manuscript(s) | Umpteen. | | Genre(s): | Sassy Single Title Contemporary, Paranormal Romantic Comedy, & Sexy Shapeshifters | | Started Writing: | 1993 | | Day Job: | In between day jobs… | | For Fun: | READING. Writing, swimming, watching movies, dancing, hiking, skiing, and a recent addiction to Wii Sports. | | Website: | http://www.viviandrews.com | | Blog: | http://viviandrews.blogspot.com | | Twitter: | ViviAndrews | | Facebook: | Vivi Andrews |
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The Multi-Pronged Assault: Strategic Planning for Aspiring Writers
By: Vivi Andrews on June 22, 2010 at 1:13 am
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Maybe I’ve read Sun Tzu’s Art of War too many times, but whenever I start to talk about trying to break into the publishing industry, my vocabulary always starts to drift toward terms more commonly used in siege warfare. It’s too easy for me to picture the Publishing World as an impenetrable citadel and myself [...]
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About E-Pubs (But Were Afraid to Ask…)
By: Vivi Andrews on June 4, 2010 at 12:01 am
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I’m hijacking Free-For-All Friday today to have an open forum discussion about e-pubs. Lots of aspiring authors are hearing about the opportunities for writers in ebooks, but hesitant to take that direction and uninformed about what it entails. Today I’m here to answer any question you’ve got about e-publishers and I hope other electronically published [...]
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The Sexorcist & Books of the Heart
By: Vivi Andrews on April 27, 2010 at 12:03 am
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When I was in college, I became involved in a student philanthropy called Dance Marathon. Two hundred couples, thirty straight hours of dancing, a casino, celebrity alumni donations – the whole nine yards. All for one great cause. Through Dance Marathon, hundreds of thousands of dollars are raised for wonderful charities every year. To this [...]
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Multiple Personalities: Author Branding for Genre Jumpers
By: Vivi Andrews on April 6, 2010 at 12:20 am
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Do you write in multiple genres? Or maybe you write books that live at opposite ends of the same genre – alternating playful contemporary comedies with dramatic contemporary sagas. Perhaps you write at wildly varying sensuality levels. So how do you create an author identity (or brand, but that word always makes me think of [...]
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Free-For-All Friday!
By: Vivi Andrews on March 5, 2010 at 12:01 am
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It’s the Friday Free-For-All, y’all! Our open forum for discussion of all things writing and romance. Any questions you have, just throw them into the mix and brace yourself for the onslaught of helpful Rubies.
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