Lynn Raye Harris

Writer Blues

I suffer from them quite a lot, it seems. Writing is like always having PMS in some ways. There are highs, lows, and oh em gees that make you want to hide your head until it all goes away. I believe this is normal, and yet I despise it.

It’s really easy to look at someone else’s career and think they have it perfect, but the truth is they probably…

Epilogues

As I come to the end of another book, I’ve been thinking about epilogues. They aren’t always necessary, and can even sometimes be a bit annoying, but as I looked back at my books, I realized that I do them more often than not. I’d rather have the reader get that final taste of the characters being happy than to end on a whopping dramatic note and then nothing else…

Author copies! A giveaway!

Winners! Thank you so much for all the comments! I’m glad everyone was excited about the possibility of winning one of these books. I decided to giveaway six copies and I used the Random Number Generator to choose the winners. This is who won:

Danielle
Gina Brock
Summer
Pearl
Stacie D
Shelley Bagby

But that’s not all! Because I truly appreciate each and every one…

The Best Time to Write

Yesterday, I saw a link to this post on Twitter (Why Programmers Work at Night). I can’t remember who tweeted it, but they compared it to writers — and a bell went off for me. Basically, the writer says that the mind is a busy thing and it’s easy to get distracted during the day. But at night, when the mind is tired and everything is dark, it’s…

The Beginning

Yesterday, I started a new book. I had the perfect opening line, I knew where the scene occurred, and what was going to happen. But less than 200 words into it, something felt off. It took me a while to figure it out, but I’d started in the wrong place and the wrong POV. Even when I’d been thinking of it for days and was certain this was right, it…

Letting Go

Hope your holiday was grand! We had a great time with the in-laws and my parents. It was, without doubt, the least stressful Thanksgiving week I’ve spent in recent memory. I wasn’t worried about turkey and gravy and all the trimmings. Oh, I was fixing them, but I wasn’t worried. If it all turned out terrible (and it didn’t), we’d have piled into the car and gone to a restaurant.…

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey, y’all! Hope my fellow Americans are having a fabulous Thanksgiving today, and I hope my international readers are having a great day. I am thankful for so many things today, but I want to say a special thank you to my readers! You guys make this job the best job in the world. I’m so happy when you enjoy my stories, and I’m so thrilled when you write to…

The Solitary Life

Writing is such a solitary life that sometimes I go whole weeks without leaving the house. If not for my husband, I’d have no human interaction at all. This week, I’m revising my latest book so that I can turn it in to my editor and move on to the next story. For some reason, it’s really hard this time. Not the revisions, which aren’t that bad, but the sitting…

In Stores Now!

Hey, y’all! Just a quick note to let you know that book 5 of the Notorious Wolfes saga, THE MAN WITH THE MONEY, is in stores now! You can read more about the book, including an excerpt, here.

What do you think about that gorgeous video, hmm? Love it!

Jack…Red-Hot. Renegade. Restless.

Notorious gambler Jack no longer gets a buzz from the risks he takes at the

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Why you shouldn’t give up

As the New Voices entrants find out who made the Top Twenty today, there is very likely to be a great deal of disappointment for the majority who did not advance to the next round. I’ve already seen some comments about quitting, which quite frankly shock me. I’ve said it on the NV Facebook page more than once: you can’t let one contest define your career as a writer.

But…