Wednesday, June 20, 2012

It's Time to "Lay Out"

No, I'm not talking about sun bathing. Besides, I never know whether it's lie out or lay out (that tricky grammar). Nope, I'm talking about floor plans for the house in my WIP.


 I've found that whenever I'm writing a lot of scenes that take place in the same house, it's much easier to have a visual floor plan to go by, not just for the practical issues of how to get the characters to move from one room to the next, but also for more subtle imagery, like how the sun would light up a room at a particular time of day.






The house in my current WIP was not an easy one to design because it takes place in a grand estate in New Canaan. I've got floor plans for multiple floors as well as one for the yard and out buildings. 


Truth be told, I had a little too much fun looking through websites of New Canaan real estate while I was dreaming up this house. In fact, I fell in love with the house that I based the one in my book off of. Now I just have to come up with five and a half million dollars, and I can make it mine in real life too.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Freakin' Awesome Winner

I know you've been biting your nails all day, wondering if you were the winner of the Freakin' Awesome Banner Contest. Well, I can now tell you that if your name happens to be:


Kristen Lippert-Martin


then you are most definitely the winner and better start thinking 
about what you want your new banner to look like.