Ask the Author: Catherine Milos
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Catherine Milos
A great place to look is here on the forums, or if you find your national or local editing associations and writing groups they often have member searches where you can find an editor that fits your project and expectations.
Catherine Milos
Deborah Harkness' All Souls Trilogy world. Only if I could be Diana Bishop. Who doesn't love academics, mystery, magic, and predatory, sexy vampires? Did I mention there is time travel?
Catherine Milos
If I wasn't an author, I'd wish to be one. I can't be anything else other than what I am. No other job allows me to be a hundred different people in hundreds of different worlds. As a writer, I can live a moment in each career that strikes my fancy. I can follow experts around and share in their passion and learning for a moment. I get to fight myself past discomfort and delve into worlds that bring me fear and love more deeply than I can ever hope to love anything in the real world. As a writer I get to fly, or be a mermaid, meet a unicorn, or be a wizard. There is no other job that transcends the chains of this world like an artist, musician, or writer's passion. As a writer, I get to create while surrounded by a world riddled with destruction and war. I build in a time when everyone is tearing each other's souls out to get five dollars. As a writer, I get to be a part of an unlimited universe in a world that seeks to box you into tiny, restrictive, imperfect categories to make others feel better. I get to care as deeply or as shallowly as I am able at the moment and need no explanation or excuses. I could never wish to be anything else.
Catherine Milos
Hi Dianne, Great question. I apologize I did not see it until now. The first few books I wrote are in US, but I've decided to stick to Canadian English for current projects as a happy medium between UK, US, and AUS English.
Catherine Milos
This changes daily depending on what I am reading. Right now it is Jill and Saul from Lilith Saintcrow's Jill Kismet series. Accepting and supportive, yet they are opposites who find a way to work together.
Catherine Milos
Thank you for your question.
My book is available for order online as a paperback novel or ebook through Amazon stores: search "Angels and Avalon".
You can find the links to amazon.com and my personal online Createspace store (paperback only) here http://catherinemilos.com/shop/.
It is also available through the occasional giveaway. Giveaways are announced on my webpage catherinemilos.com.
My book is available for order online as a paperback novel or ebook through Amazon stores: search "Angels and Avalon".
You can find the links to amazon.com and my personal online Createspace store (paperback only) here http://catherinemilos.com/shop/.
It is also available through the occasional giveaway. Giveaways are announced on my webpage catherinemilos.com.
Catherine Milos
As a writer, I find inspiration everywhere. The sound of rain, the scent of coffee, a flashing neon sign. But if I am really stuck I learn something new, engage with others or go somewhere new. A change is often just what I need to recharge and write.
Catherine Milos
Writing is work. It is not easy. Know your craft - the foundations of good writing are knowing grammar, punctuation, flow, syntax. Be open to everything. Stand by what you know and believe. Do not engage with trolling or negativity. Do not do it alone. Surround yourself with a great group of folks to bounce ideas off, edit your work, and offer experience and inspiration.
Catherine Milos
Step 1 - Breathe. I am terrible for holding my breath when I focus. Deprives the brain of oxygen. Makes it difficult to see the screen or think. You can imagine.
Step 2- Exercise. What is good for the body is good for creativity.
Step 3- Have real-life experiences and conversations with folks to base the fiction off of. Learn something new.
Step 4 - Forget about it for a bit, try something new.
Step 5- Give whatever I have to my editor.
Writers block remove. Yay!
Step 2- Exercise. What is good for the body is good for creativity.
Step 3- Have real-life experiences and conversations with folks to base the fiction off of. Learn something new.
Step 4 - Forget about it for a bit, try something new.
Step 5- Give whatever I have to my editor.
Writers block remove. Yay!
Catherine Milos
Being a writer requires a great deal of time, experience, and work. The best thing about the process is getting inside the heads of folks who inspire the characters I write. Experiencing the world through their eyes, giving the characters a voice with a unique based-on-real-life perspective is unlike anything else. It is a mix of all the great things in the world: psychology, spirituality, tangible experience, writing, imagining, working, creating, and sharing.
Catherine Milos
Book Two of the Angels & Avalon series - check out insider info on my blog.
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