My Latest Novel!!

Hey guys! I'm having a release party for my "five star review" Sherlock Holmes novel Soundless Silence!! I will have paperbacks for sale and will be signing! It makes a great Christmas gift for that Sherlock lover and book worm in your family! Or treat yourself! I will also be having a very limited amount of Blood is Thicker Than Water and will be having a "black Friday/Saturday" sale!

Hope to see you all there! 

P.S. Nikki Thompson let me on for a time to announce this! But she wanted me to let you know that Silent Whispers, her story with the dreamy Ross Sutherland, is alive and well and should be out next year!!! Can't wait to read it, Nikki!!



Best, 

M. Katherine

Happy Holidays from the desk of M. Katherine Clark!

Happy Holidays!!

Very excited to announce that on Christmas Eve I will be sharing a bit of my novel Blood is Thicker Than Water that ended up on the cutting room floor!

It is one of my favorite scenes but it didn't fit in BTTW. It took a lot of convincing from my editor to cut this scene but I absolutely agree now, it took away from the action of the ending. But it is such a wonderful scene!

I can't wait to share it with you all!

Check back on Christmas Eve, December 24th! Until then check out my website: www.mkatherineclark.tateauthor.com and my Facebook: www.facebook.com/mkatherineclark

Have a blessed and safe Holiday season!

P.S. I will have a VERY special post on the 26th regarding another novel I've been furiously working on! Wolf's Bane, an Historical, Paranormal, Romance! Check back on the 26th to find out more!

2013 Indy Author Fair

I'm very excited to announce that I have been chosen to participate in the 2013 Indy Author Fair on Saturday, October 26th from 12:00-2:00 pm at the Indianapolis Central library! There will be about 40 local authors participating. 

Workshops and author talks will also be presented! Please consider coming down to the Central Iibrary and supporting local Indiana authors! 

There is no age limit for this event. More information can be found on their website at: http://www.imcpl.org/events/detail/?event_id=3475&schedule_id=34901

It's Here!!!!

Hello everyone!!
I am so excited! My novel Blood is Thicker Than Water has been released!! After nearly a year it is available wherever books are sold!! Please take a look and order! There will also be announcements to events and signings! Please keep an eye out. I would love to meet you all!!

Final proof

Recently, I received my final proof in the mail. It is so amazing to hold your novel as an actual book! When I got the cover design I was very excited. The hours and years I had put into writing this book was finally paying off and it finally had an image! When I held my final proof seeing my name at the bottom of the cover and on the top of every other page with my characters and their stories it was unreal! I am so excited to share my story with the world. The great thing about being a writer is to see your name on something so incredible as a book. To know that all the frustrating times of writers block weren't for nothing! I am a published author with my novel in my hands! This whole thing has been so incredible! I can't wait to see what happens next!!

"Dead"line

Now I understand what people mean when they talk about their "deadline". I just recently experienced this firsthand. I got my developmental editors notes about my novel and I was to go through the manuscript, add, subtract, review, accept or reject her ideas.

No big deal right?

Wrong!

Looking back, it's actually kind of funny. You'd think, as the author, I would know every little detail about the novel and be able to fly through the edits. Well, not exactly. It takes time and patience to go through line by line and not skim. Making sure there was the correct "they're" and not "their" or "too" instead of "to" or knowing which "he" I meant when I said "he said" and there are three "hes" in the dialogue. Even though grammatical editing took care of most of this, everyone is human and not everyone can see everything. My editor is a wonderful person, she was available by phone or email if I needed any help and was a guide through this process.

I had two weeks to review my manuscript and add the parts my editor suggested I add in order to make certain loose ends tied up. I have to admit that the novel was more concise and compact by the end. Getting there was the adventure.

Due to all my editor's notes, and the l 1/2 line spacing the novel was 500+ pages. I started out working everyday excited to get through it. Then my energy lagged. I took a couple days off and didn't work. My deadline was Friday. Thursday came around and I realized I still had 200+ pages to review, not to mention the additions I had to do. I started around noon thinking it wouldn't take too long......

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2:00am

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Finally I was done without any major breaks for lunch or dinner.

So it was finished. Now I know what they mean by calling it a "dead"line. After you reach it you are completely "dead" tired.

I learned from this experience and will never again put it off. :-)

New author's rant ;-)

Hello World!

Well, this is my first attempt at a blog.  I'm a new author, with a novel being released later this year.  I figure this is a good way to rant ;-) I'm working on my second novel right now it's difficult to work on it before the other one has gone into editing. But my characters are such a large part of my life I feel like I'm just writing a friend's life.  As soon as my title has been confirmed I will tell you all about it.

Well, I hope I've done this right.  And as they say on TV: "Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode." :-)