Cloud Nine explained through gifs
Sometimes an off-hand joke is just for a momentary laugh. Other times, we run with it. Today is the latter. An agent tweeted today about how by accepting email queries, they’ve lost the ability to scan ahead of time for the “special” packages. I joked this was clearly him requesting a query comprised of gifs. Now, while I...
Fight Scenes and Cloud Nine
If you read the blog regularly enough, you know I’ve been hard at work on my YA near-future science fiction novel Cloud Nine. I handed the final version over to my beta readers earlier this week in the hopes they’d connect with my unapologetic heroine and be a little creeped out by how plausible the conditions in the book are....
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Take Your Character from Victim to Attacker [Write...
The Krav Maga (and Muay Thai) fight stance isn’t the same as a boxer’s. We keep our hands open and in front of us. There are multiple reasons for this. It’s easy to snap forward with a palm heel strike or gouge someone’s eyes with your hands already open, for instance. However, the more important reason is it is a placating gesture....
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Chelsea spent years as a full-time entertainment journalist. Covering culture and music at newspapers and magazines was fun, but spending her time writing geek girl heroines and battling evil via book is even better.
When not crafting tales full of ass-kicking and kissing, she runs the totally fun blog Vampire Book Club, dishes on the latest book and TV hotties for Heroes & Heartbreakers and *gasp* hangs out with her incredibly awesome husband and two giant dogs. She loves bad cover songs, dramatic movies and TV vampires.
She lives in Texas and has been known to say y’all.
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