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Acting Out Wraps!

Tibby Armstrong — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:07:38 +0000

This weekend saw a completed draft of Acting Out, the follow-up novel to No Apologies. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when I set about giving you a little more of Aaron and Greg while creating two new characters and telling their intimate story. I couldn’t be happier with the result, and hope to [...]

No Apologies is going to print!

Tibby Armstrong — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:02:34 +0000

Loose Id contacted me with my cover flat today. I can’t believe I’m actually going to hold No Apologies in my hands soon! I don’t have a release date yet, but rest assured I’ll shout it from the rooftops as soon as I have an inkling. Now, to figure out how to market a print book… As [...]

Undercover Lover’s cover EXPOSED!

Tibby Armstrong — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:21:14 +0000

It’s official! Undercover Lover has a hot, Hot, HOT cover! If I could draw Gunter, I couldn’t find a better model than “Sam” and I know I couldn’t get a better Ellora’s Cave cover artist than the wonderful Syneca. Trust me when I say I could (and might) lick my computer monitor. Without further ado…here’s the cover [...]

Well, I feel like they’re talkin’ in a language I don’t speak…*

Tibby Armstrong — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:51:39 +0000

I’ve done a heavy amount editing to Undercover Loverover the past week in an attempt to get Gunter’s voice (accent, dialect, cadence) down on the page, and along the way I discovered a few tricks: 1) Listen to a YouTube videos from the region/country from which your character hails, then edit your prose to match. You’ll [...]

It’s drafty in here

Tibby Armstrong — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:54:51 +0000

Finally! I finished up the second draft of Undercover Lover this afternoon and sent it off to a beta reader. I’ve never had a beta reader before–only critique partners. The difference, at least to my mind, is that a critique partner approaches the book as an editor would, while a beta reader approaches a book [...]