Author Heather McCorkle

I've put together a little trailer for the first book in my Wolves of Hemlock Hollow series. I hope you like it! Once Bitten Trailer

My civil war tale about an Irish/American nurse and the soldier she saves is coming, March 21st of this year, THIS YEAR! I'm a wee bit excited, if you couldn't tell. 😊 Pre-Order: Amazon     /     Barnes & Noble

My publisher, Kensington/Lyrical, is doing an advanced giveaway of my historical novel about a nurse in the civil war and soldier whose life she saves, Honor Before Heart. It is the first in the Emerald Belles series. It doesn't release until spring, but you can win it now! How awesome is that? I would love it if you'd drop by the Goodreads giveaway and enter. Shares and tweets are always hugely appreciated, of course, but if you just enter, you'll still make my day. I love to see that counter of entries go up! It looks good to my publisher and makes me smile.

Yep, you read that right, three Viking werewolf books from me are coming soon! Two of them are releasing next year. I'm crazy excited for this series and can hardly wait to share it with you. To read more about the series, click here . 

One of the first things the industry advises debut authors to do is join a group of authors. Having co-moderated the Writer's Road chat and brought writers together for years, I couldn't agree with this more. After all, it takes a tribe to make a book successful just as it takes a village to raise a child, so to speak. As soon as I knew I was going to sign a pub deal, I started looking for a great group. Authors are very welcoming and supportive by nature so I thought it would be easy. Unfortunately, I was really wrong. While there are a LOT of groups out there for young adult and middle grade authors, groups for those who write for adults are very, very hard to find. When I had pretty much given up hope, one found me. And not just any group, but a fantastic group. From contemporary, to fantasy, to historical, and thrillers, this group has it all. This fabulous group includes authors published by small houses and the Big 5. I love their diversity, their enthusiasm, and supp...

It never grows old, that feeling of overwhelming relief and accomplishment that comes with finishing a manuscript. This week I wrote the last words on novel number ten and the rush is still just as powerful. I will be celebrating this weekend because regardless of what happens with it, I have grown so much as a writer just with the writing of it. Woo hoo! How about you writers out there? Do you feel the rush each time? And at what point in the process from creation, to writing, to editing, to polishing, does it hit you?

After a long journey, my civil war novel has finally found a home~again! After signing with  Samhain publishing , who unfortunately closed their doors shortly there-after, I had my doubts that this historical novel about a nurse in the civil war and the soldier she saves would find another home. But it happened! Lyrical press , a division of Kensington (a publisher whose books I have loved for a very long time), signed this novel and...