My Witchlanders Blog Tour Starts Today!
Check out the Page Turners Blog where main characters Ryder and Falpian are interviewing each other. Then watch the video and answer the question in the comments section to be entered into the Kindle give-away! The full tour schedule can be found at the Kismet Blog Tour site. Watch the videos and comment at each site for more chances to...
Read MoreAnnouncing! My Witchlanders Blog Tour!
For more information, including a detailed list of the wonderful bloggers who will be hosting me, see my tour page on the Kismet Blog Tours site. If you are thinking of having a blog tour, I really recommend Danny and Heather at Kismet. They’ve been great!
Read MoreMaking My Witchlanders Book Trailer–Part 2
Last week I posted some of my favourite book trailers in hopes that they would inspire me to make my own. This week I’ve been madly writing a script and gathering photos, music and video clips. Here are the steps I’ve taken so far, along with some of the great sites and programs I’ve found to help me make my very own Witchlanders book trailer. Step One: Draft a Script Keep it short: As a general rule, I find book trailers too cheesy and too long. I’ve tried to think of my trailer as an elevator pitch with images. Be Flexible: Remember that you might not find the exact photos you want. If...
Read MoreMaking My Witchlanders Book Trailer–Part 1
I adore book trailers. I was speaking to a writer yesterday who audibly moaned when I told him I was making one. “We have to do that, TOO?” No, writer friends, we don’t HAVE to make trailers to promote our books. In fact, of all the many online promotion tools—blogging, social networking, etc.—a book trailer is one that I’m not entirely convinced has a big effect. Many of the big readers I know, teen and adult, tell me they’ve never seen one. But I think that’s changing. Teachers are using them more and more in the classroom, and savvy authors and publishers are learning to use...
Read MoreMind the Gap: great writing advice from the London tube system
In London, every time a train door opens, an automated female voice tells you to “Mind the gap,” so that you don’t fall into that nether space between the train and the platform. When I was in England last year I smiled every time I heard it. I was about to start a new novel, and Robert McKee’s book Story was on my mind. McKee is another of my screenwriting gurus (if you read this blog, you know I have a few of them—I think screenwriters are often better at talking about plot than novelists) and “the gap” is a concept he talks about a lot. I should say right off, though, that his...
Read MoreNewsy Bits
Eek! My first ever review for Witchlanders! And she liked it! http://watercolormoods.blogspot.com/2011/06/coakley-lena-witchlanders.html
Read MoreAbout Me
Hi! I'm Lena, a young adult fantasy author from Toronto.