Tag Archives: Love in Los Angeles books

The Awesome Women of Love in Los Angeles: Part 3, Margaret Green

Posted on July 30, 2014 by erincmcrae

One of Alex’s first struggles as a newly-discovered star is finding a “team”  — agent, publicist, lawyer, etc — that can help him manage his career, handle his rapidly changing circumstances, and don’t represent a conflict of interest with the … Continue reading →

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Story Process Sunday: 1+1=3

Posted on July 27, 2014 by erincmcrae

So we get asked a lot how our writing process as cowriters works, and while our usual answer to that is either a really lengthy explanation of what we do, or shrugging while we say “magic,” there’s a lot of … Continue reading →

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The Awesome Women of Love in Los Angeles, Part 2: Carly Amadahy

Posted on July 23, 2014 by erincmcrae

Also early on the scene in Starling is Carly. Alex at first registers her mostly as Liam’s girlfriend who stops by the set every week or so just to say hi. Frankly, he’s a little scared of her, which is … Continue reading →

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Story Process Sunday: The Philly Office

Posted on July 20, 2014 by erincmcrae

We’ve mentioned, from time to time, our writing office in Philadelphia. We were there yesterday, where we realized we hadn’t actually told the story of how the Philadelphia office came to be. Racheline lives in NYC, I’m in DC, and … Continue reading →

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Story Process Sunday: Series Writing

Posted on July 13, 2014 by erincmcrae

If you follow us on Twitter or tumblr, you’ve probably noticed our kvetching about our latest round of edits. Racheline and I have spent a large chunk of June, and a sizeable chunk of July, in editing various books in … Continue reading →

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The Awesome Women of Love in Los Angeles, Part 1: Gemma Hyong

Posted on July 9, 2014 by erincmcrae

Welcome to our series of posts on the amazing women of the Love in Los Angeles series. Starling and its sequel may be ostensibly about the relationship between two guys, but there are way more characters in the universe, and … Continue reading →

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Starling Story Molecule at The Snarkology today

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

Erin and I have a fun thing up at The Snarkology today.  Melissa got permission from TV Tropes to do a promo where authors construct story molecules out of the Periodic Table of Storytelling. Since our book is about TV, … Continue reading →

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Do The Thing! Everyone Wants To Be Me or Do Me

Posted on June 30, 2014 by erincmcrae

Writing novels deconstructing the fantasy of celebrity means spending time on websites devoted to the fashion of and gossip about actual celebrities. It’s primary-source research into the way people treat and view movie stars, musicians, and everyone else famous. One of those … Continue reading →

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Story Process Sunday: Dubious italics, and why not looking at your novel for nine months is a really good idea

Posted on June 29, 2014 by erincmcrae

No Sneak Peek this week, because we don’t have anything currently going that we can talk about in detail that we haven’t already shared with you. But we are going to do a Story Process Sunday instead, so we can … Continue reading →

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Interview with Starling’s hero, Paul Marion Keane

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

RWA-NYC‘s heroes and heroines of summer blog series continues.  Last month, they included an interview with the star of Starling, J. Alex Cook.  This month, the interview is with with the book’s hero, Paul Marion Keane. Choosing to call Paul … Continue reading →

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