Writing Archives - Debora Dale

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

where fear and passion collide

Character Interview – Heroines – Cassandra Hall

Last week I enjoyed a one-on-one interview with JAXTON CARTER, the hero from my upcoming release, DUPLICITY, a psychological romantic suspense. This week, I’m happy to meet with his leading lady, CASSANDRA HALL. A nurse with an exceptionally tender heart, Cass is not...

Character Interview – Heroes – Jaxton Carter

Creating Characters, fiction, Writing

Interviews with fictional characters are a bit odd, I admit it, but they’re also fun. Like an escape. A way to connect with ‘someone’ new, someone I, as an author, believe I can mold into the perfect hero or heroine. A strong character, however, has their own mind, as...

For Mom

Family life, Writing

I’m currently working on what I hope are the final revisions for my work-in-progress, which has taken me five years to write. Five long, complicated years. I’d started this book soon after publishing my debut novel, Surrender at Canyon Road. During the work on...

Book Birthday!

Writing

Happy Book Birthday Surrender at Canyon Road! My debut novel, a contemporary romantic suspense, is officially celebrating it’s one-year book birthday today. Since it’s release, Surrender at Canyon Road has been out there, in the wild, surviving and...

Surrender to Coloring

Writing, Random

To celebrate the first-year Book Birthday of my debut novel, I thought I’d share a little something that I’ve enjoyed during these past several months. Adult coloring. How it Started I received my first adult coloring book and a few colored pencils as a gift that I...

There won’t be trumpets

Writing, Creating Characters, Plotting

There are heroes in the world, wrote Stephen Sondheim in the song There Won’t Be Trumpets. Princes and heroes in the world; and one of them will save us…wait and see, wait and see. That hopeful promise was followed by a warning: There won’t be...

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