This is my current work in progress, a historical fiction based on the true story of Ann MacLean, a Scottish immigrant and Loyalist. In this peek she meets someone who will play a brief but important role in her life. A few torches guttered at the corners of the garden beds, hard pressed to burn… Continue reading Hold Fast: Kinship
Everdream is finished now but here's a look inside. Prince Kynan is busy searching for his mother, lost for 10 years in the magic realm of Everdream. In the process of finding her, he learns who she really is. Just then, the mist to their left parted, and for a moment Kynan had a clear,… Continue reading Everdream: The Tower
If you’re writing a novel, you need a setting. If you’re writing a fantasy novel, your setting needs to be an epic world. Whether you’re writing fantasy, historical fiction, or even something in your own backyard, you need to immerse the reader in that world without drowning them. There are a lot of novels… Continue reading 5 Ways to Build an Epic World
Here's another excerpt from my current work in progress, Everdream. Let me know what you think! It always irked Kynan to answer his father’s summons, especially after they’d quarrelled—to bow low in obeisance and follow form when within he screamed to break loose and rage. Still, he knew his place, and he bowed though every… Continue reading Everdream: She is Lost
I'm thinking it's about time I shared with you a little of my current work in progress. It's pure fantasy, likely more suitable for the Young Adult genre. Please let me know what you think, and more importantly if it's worth putting more on the blog. He didn’t run. Running was what he would have… Continue reading Everdream: As Good as a Tomb
In this excerpt from my time-travel short story, Mason gets some advice from a famous painter.Mason spent the night under Botticelli’s roof, along with the apprentices and under-artists who lived there. He lay awake through the few hours left before dawn, casting about between the wonder of where and when he was, and the heart-bursting… Continue reading Tuesday Critique: Botticelli’s Story
In this excerpt from my work in progress, a time travel story set in Renaissance Florence, Alessa has just met Mason, and has seen a portrait of herself that has yet to be painted.Alessa couldn’t feel as sorry as she ought. Oh, Matteo was trying as hard as possible to make her feel sorry, appealing to… Continue reading Tuesday Critique: Alessa’s promise
Have you ever come back to a work in progress after a break and found it a stranger?This is something I've done many a time. Hello there, book-to-be. Who are you exactly? And where do we go from here?I've made plenty of mistakes with this process, daunting mistakes that almost made me give up on… Continue reading Writer Wednesday: Getting Reacquainted with your Manuscript
This is a little peek at my Nanowrimo novel, entitled Enter. Hope you enjoy. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments. 🙂 When the sun rises on my night’s vigil, I know I am not alone. It doesn’t matter that Ethan is sleeping in his rumpled bed across the tiny,… Continue reading Tuesday Critique: Enter
So, I'm back to blogging now that Nanowrimo is wrapped, and I thought I'd take a minute to reflect on my second experience with the great novel writing mayhem. Being my second time attempting this challenge, I went into it with the confidence of knowing I can do this. I knew it was going to… Continue reading Nanowrimo wrap up
Erin E. M. Hatton 