I have my very own website - go to http://marybrockjones.com/ for a look see.
There are still a few things to organise on it, and once they are done and I learn how to run it, I will migrate my blog over there. It was created by my very clever son who, luckily for me, has a web site management business: Your Turn,
I have decided to use Mary Brock Jones as my pen name for all my writing, both SF and historical romance. Mainly because it is more likely to bring up me on a google search than if I use Mary Jones - not the most unusual name in the world, after all. It sounds pretty good too.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Publishing
I now have an Editor and a date for delivery of the final manuscript for my NZ Historical with Escape Publishing. So that sounds very official. It's all both very scary and very exciting. They are only a new imprint of Harlequin Australia, but I've read some of the titles they have put out so far, and they really are good. Try "Unforgettable" by Elise K Ackers. Thoroughly enjoyable, and a bit different. Both main characters work on a building site, a very different setting for a romance. But it was completely credible, the author obviously knows her stuff, and the story was great.
I am also in the process of setting up a new website, and once completed will shift my blog over there. Full details to follow.
I am also in the process of setting up a new website, and once completed will shift my blog over there. Full details to follow.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
A Yes from Harlequin Escape
This year, I've had the greatest Christmas present ever for a writer - the wonderful Kate Cuthbert of Harlequin Escape Publishing has said "Yes" to my submission. It's for the book that co-won the People's Choice Award in the Romance Writers of New Zealand's Clendon Award 2012, an historical romance set in the days of the Otago gold rush.
All very exciting, and so great after the years of trying. Getting a short story "Yes" is pretty amazing, but getting one for a whole book, now that's something else.
Publishing date unknown yet, and I have to admit to being a bit scared about what happens next. It's all a bit of an unknown process, even though I've had many others tell me of their experiences. But doing it yourself, mmmm. And a big shout out of thanks to all who have helped me on this amazing journey: the other writers of RWNZ and SpecFic NZ, my family for their endless tolerance, and to Massey University's creative writing papers' lecturers and tutors. Their paper on script writing in particular, taught by Stuart Hoar, was great for someone writing genre fiction.
So here's to 2013, the year of Mary Brock Jones, author.
All very exciting, and so great after the years of trying. Getting a short story "Yes" is pretty amazing, but getting one for a whole book, now that's something else.
Publishing date unknown yet, and I have to admit to being a bit scared about what happens next. It's all a bit of an unknown process, even though I've had many others tell me of their experiences. But doing it yourself, mmmm. And a big shout out of thanks to all who have helped me on this amazing journey: the other writers of RWNZ and SpecFic NZ, my family for their endless tolerance, and to Massey University's creative writing papers' lecturers and tutors. Their paper on script writing in particular, taught by Stuart Hoar, was great for someone writing genre fiction.
So here's to 2013, the year of Mary Brock Jones, author.
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