by Pamela Hart | Apr 3, 2025 | Inside An Author's Mind
Picture this: A book, fresh off the press (or the e-reader screen), trembling with excitement, waiting to be read. But alas! Without your magical touch—a review—it might fade into the background, essentially invisible to the people who would love it. So, dear reader,...
by Pamela Hart | Feb 19, 2025 | Subscriber Exclusive
Beauty from Embers Excerpt Gravel crunched under Kaya’s feet as she approached the series of domed structures that made up Dragul’s home. The bright orange walls—caused by the heavy concentration of shells in the local limestone—normally amused her, but...
by Pamela Hart | Feb 22, 2024 | Inside An Author's Mind
What do you think? 👇Vote here 👇 My first inclination was no. Audiobooks are an auditory stimulus and reading is a visual stimulus. They use different parts of the brain and demand different levels of focus. So, if you asked me a few days ago, I would’ve told you no, I...
by Pamela Hart | Oct 9, 2023 | Subscriber Exclusive, Writing Updates
Beauty from Embers Cut Scene Sometimes a writer needs to eliminate scenes from a novel. This could be for various reasons. The scene could be repetitive, hinder the story pacing, be filled with too much backstory, or a multitude of other problems. The following scene...
by Pamela Hart | Feb 6, 2023 | Inside An Author's Mind
Do names shape our perception of characters? When Juliet fell in love with Romeo, she made the famous declaration, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” to show that Romeo’s family name didn’t matter to her. But Anne of Green Gables, one of my favorite...
