Behind the Fiction
There are usually certain elements of truth behind fiction and that is true for my Wilder Brother series…
Category: writing romance
Behind the scenes of HOT SEAL, DIRTY MARTINI
Warning–hot beach house pictures ahead! We’re just over ONE MONTH away from the release of HOT SEAL, DIRTY MARTINI so I thought I’d give you a peek into my writing process. Hot SEAL, Dirty Martini is about a west coast Navy SEAL who put in his twenty years and is looking forward to a peaceful retirement in the beach paradise he just found for sale–a 1950s bungalow he wants to buy and renovate. Of course the heroine is there to throw a wrench into his plans because this is an enemies-to-lovers theme, but more about that later . . . this post is about the house itself. When I write books and the setting or the buildings are a critical part of the plot, I always research actual sites in the location where the story is set. For instance, when I wrote Cowboy Blue (originally titled A Cowboy for Christmas) set on a cattle ranch in Colorado, I searched and found an actual ranch listed for sale in that area, and that listing provided pictures and facts such as number of acres and number and types of buildings, all that helped me with much needed details for the story. For Hot SEAL, […]
Hot SEALs Kindle Worlds 101
Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs are coming to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds! What does that mean? Here’s a quick explanation… CAT JOHNSON’S HOT SEALS ON KINDLE WORLDS On August 4, 2015, Cat Johnson’s Hot SEALs Kindle World will officially launch. Authors will be able to write, upload and sell their original stories written within the Hot SEALs Kindle Worlds guidelines and readers get to enjoy even more Hot SEALs stories contributed by some of their favorite authors or by writers who are new to them. The all-star line-up of #HotSEALsKW launch authors includes: Delilah Devlin, Marissa Dobson, Geri Foster, Desiree Holt, Kennedy Layne, Elle James, Olivia Jaymes, J.M. Madden, Becky McGraw, Donna Michaels, Siobhan Muir, Susan Stoker, Paige Tyler and Sabrina York. WHAT IS KINDLE WORLDS? To answer that we first must discuss the concept of FAN FICTION, which is the tradition of fans (of television, comics, and literature) penning their own stories in their favorite fictional worlds. They write for their own satisfaction and to share their words with fellow fans of the worlds in which they are writing, on their blog or on dedicated fan fiction websites. The most famous fan fiction story is of course by E.L. James who originally wrote 50 Shades of Grey […]