Author Heather McCorkle

Last week my goal was to hit the 200 page mark on my revision/rewrite of my special project, and I did it! It wasn't easy because the rewrite kept making the manuscript longer, which was pushing my goal out farther and farther. But I stuck with it and made it! Have you ever revised and found yourself adding a lot more to your manuscript than you had originally planned? Did you make your writing goals for last week? If you have time please stop by the Critique Sisters' Corner and enter to win a copy of Flight For Control by Karlene Petitt. I'm giving it away on that blog as part of the celebration for my release tour for Channeler's Choice. All you have to do to enter to win Flight For Control is leave a comment on the Critique Sisters' Corner post at this link . There aren't many entries yet so your chances of winning are good! When you're done I hope you'll visit me at my good friend and author Tina Moss's blog where she is interviewing the he...

One of the greatest editing discoveries I've ever made it reading my novel aloud. This is one of the last steps in the editing process that I do and it always amazes me how much I catch even after so much work by myself and my beta readers. I've even caught things an editor has missed this way. Tip: When you think you're finished editing your novel read it aloud, either to someone or to yourself. It's important to take your time with it and not just read what your eye 'thinks' it sees, but what is really on the page. A few friends of mine have a program that has their computer read it aloud to them. Super cool, but the computer voice would kind of freak me out. But if you're adventurous and techie enough, it's probably worth a shot. Today for the Channeler's Choice tour I'm over at my friend the fabulous author G.P. Ching's blog . Before you go, don't forget to click on the sidebar link to enter the Channeler's Choice tour givea...

To celebrate the release of Channeler's Choice I'm doing a blog tour that launches today and goes through March 15 th along with a giveaway. Here are the prizes: Winner #1: An eBook of Tangled Tides by Karen Amanda Hooper An eBook of Running Wide Open by Lisa Nowak An eBook of The Secret Of Spruce Knoll (if you don’t have a copy yet, or a paperback if you don't have an reader) A paperback of Born Of Fire & Dies Irae (novella combination by Heather McCorkle and Christine Fonseca released through Compass Press) And of course, Channeler’s Choice swag (bookmarks, postcards, etc.) Winner #2 An eBook of Beautiful Demons & Inner Demons by Sarra Cannon An eBook of Bound by C.K. Bryant An eBook of The Secret Of Spruce Knoll (if you don’t have a copy yet, or a paperback if you don't have an ereader) A paperback of Born Of Fire & Dies Irae (novella combination by Heather McCorkle and Christine Fonseca released through Com...

Look at those beauties! They kind of make me teary-eyed, I have to admit. I am biased, but I think it may be the best cover ever. It's hard to see in the picture but there is something special about the back cover as well. To see and understand what it is though, you'll have to get a bound copy of the book and read it! At the end of my tour for CC (March 17th) a special prize will go to the person who can tell me what is special about the back cover and why. If you would like a signed copy you can order one at this link . I know, I know, no Creature Feature again this Friday. Let the flogging commence. *braces self* Between preparing for the Channeler's Choice blog tour tomorrow and revising my special project, I haven't had time even for flash fiction. The good news is that I'm making a lot of progress on my special project and that I'll be announcing it next month. It's monumental and it's been pushed up by months which is forcing me to work my f...

Today I'm celebrating the release of a dear friend's outstanding, illustrated middle grade novel, It's a little haywire by Elle Strauss. It was my distinct pleasure to design the cover for this novel, but I didn't do all the work. We tweaked and worked on it, but it was missing something. Then Elle had the idea to add a dog drawn by one of her kids to the cover. They drafted it up, sent it my way, I added it to the cover, and perfection! Now that's a special touch that most authors don't do. It made this one of my favorite covers that I've designed so far. Here is a bit about the novel: Owen True is eleven and eleven twelfths and has been “exiled” to the small crazy town of Hayward, WA, aka, Haywire, while his mother is on her honeymoon. All he has to whittle away the time is the company of Gramps, his black lab Daisy, and his Haywire friends, Mason and Mikala Sweet. They don’t look so hot this year, in fact, the whole town has gone to pot since the mi...

Happy book birthday to Flight For Control by Karlene Petitt! I've been waiting for this one for so long and I'm so excited that it's finally out! I remember the first time I read part of it, years ago when I met Karlene at a writer's retreat. I immediately knew it was something special. And now, finally, all of you get to read it! As I am a YA author and often recommend YA reads, I have to let you know though, Flight For Control is NOT a YA novel. It's very adult, thriller genre in fact. But it's oh so good! So, for all of my adult readers, here is a bit about Flight For Control: After a ten-year leave, Kathryn Jacobs has been invited back to the N.T.S.B to investigate a series of unexplained airline crashes. But her husband, Captain Bill Jacobs, has his concerns. While her twin daughters are off at camp, and Bill is actively campaigning for the Pilot Union Presidency, Kathryn secretly begins her investigation. What she learns will shock the nation. Fli...

Last week I was reminded of one of the main reasons I write. Between thinking about grammar, sentence structure, flow, voice, plot, and character building, we writers can lose sight of one of the most important elements of our story; the readers. A friend called me up one night last week to tell me he had come home to find his daughter with her Nook in one hand and a broom in the other, attempting to read as she swept the floor. He laughed at her and told her that must be a really good book to make her read while trying to work. She said it was and that she was so close to the end she couldn’t stop reading it. It was my book. I may have laughed for joy then got teary-eyed when he told me this story. I’ll never tell. Later that night he called back and told me she was dying to read the next one. I told him how to find it and I could hear her cheering in the background. She said she hadn’t read anything that good since Harry Potter and Twilight. In all my life, I never expected to stac...