Award for A DADDY FOR DANNY

I am delighted to announce that my novel, A DADDY FOR DANNY, received the Golden Wings Award in May, 2009. What the award is about: Twice a year, Senior Editors from Wings ePress, Inc., select whom they think is the best overall read for their department.

Prolific Writers - Are You One?

So you think you write a lot — How many books have you written? As a reader, how many books do you read a month?

Barbara Cartland, who my college Women’s Lit Instructor disliked intensely, wrote a stunning 723 books and made the Guinness Book of World Records for her efforts. She wrote a novel in one or two weeks. The critics say she actually didn’t write them she dictated them to her secretaries and they typed them up. I beg to differ with them. It was her creative genius that dreamt them up in the first place. If she hadn’t dictated them would each of her secretaries have written a best seller and had them published?

I take issue with the big name authors who have an understudy of sorts write from their outline and create a book for the named author. I see James Patterson and a few others are finally listing those as co-authors on the covers of their books. But now does that make them author of those books or the co-author? Who gets to count coup – will Patterson have 300 books because of their efforts or will he let them count those as their own?

Isaac Asimov wrote over 200 books, by himself – he then, in my humble opinion, especially with all the special issues Sci Fi authors face, was a prolific writer.

Georges Simenon wrote 400 books each book took him eleven straight days of writing. I’m sure he took food breaks and a nap break here and there – but that’s profound. Imagine fellow NaNoWriMo authors if you could write a novel in 30 days, why not one in eleven days?
How many words a day would that be? Approximately 4,500 words a day. Hey you could do that couldn’t you? {smile}

So write like the wind, read like a Tsunami and perhaps you will earn a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for your effort. After NaNoWriMo I’m sure many of you are thinking you deserve at least that commendation. I am proud of those of you who tried, even if you didn’t finish. And I am doubly proud of those who did – included in that my own daughter who finished her novel at just under 54,000 words ahead of the deadline. GO BECKIE!
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Dream Realm Award Finalist

Devil's Due, third in a series including Rogue's Rules and Loser's Game is a finalist for both the book and the cover in this science fiction/fantasy award for excellence in e-books.

Incredible News -- The EPPIE Finalists

Four Wings authors are EPPIE finalists for 2007:

Mystery Category -- Moon Over Chicago
by J. D. Webb

Historical Romance Category -- By the Sword
by Alison Stuart

Single Title/Mainstream -- And the Truth Will Set You Free
by Linda Rettstatt

Science Fiction/Futuristic Romance -- Devil's Due
by Rhobin Courtright