Author: Carla Swafford, Author

Carla Swafford loves romance novels, action/adventure movies, and men, and her books reflect that. And that’s not all, she’s crazy about hockey. She’s married to her high school sweetheart and lives in the Southeastern U.S.
Posted in Writing

Does It Work?

Posted on by Carla Swafford, Author

I just finished reading an interesting article (not on line, sorry) about what authors should do in marketing their books. *sigh* It wore me out. So many things that has nothing to do with true writing. There’s no way I’ll do all that. I just want to write.

The most marketing I plan to do is 1) post on occasion here or a friend’s site, 2) tag this post to Facebook and Twitter, and 3) write, write and write.

Who knows. I may never get famous that way, but if my books are good enough to stir up excitement, they’ll do it on their own. My goal is to keep writing and improving each book that I publish (myself or by a publisher).

Okay. Enough said. Time to get back to writing. Time to cause mayhem and chaos in the romantic suspense (action/adventure) world. Someone must DIE!

Posted in Writing

Lassie, Come Home!

Posted on by Carla Swafford, Author

AmericanCollieDon’t worry. I haven’t gone away. I’ve been mostly at the must-be-there-to-have-a-roof-over-my-head day job, but something new has happened to me. I have a new critique partner!

*waves at Nancy*

So far, I haven’t broken her or run her off. Personally, I believe she’s a keeper. We’re alike enough not to frustrate each other but different enough to make the reading of each other’s work interesting.

Some of you may be wondering why it would keep me away from the blog? Well, technically it shouldn’t, but I’ve noticed I’m writing more. As in romance. And that’s a good thing. If you missed it on Facebook, I mentioned, in an offhanded way, that I wouldn’t be there as often as I had in the past. I rather write and edit stories.

Hopefully this means I’ll have two novellas out this summer and another one by Christmas. And somewhere along the way I have two contemporary books to finish. That is, if some editor doesn’t ask for my medieval romance, THE CAGED HEART. Hey, you never can tell.

They might.

Uh huh, maybe.

It can happen!

Even pretend confidence can work.

Posted in My Romance Magicians' post

Come Over And Meet Lorraine Heath!

Posted on by Carla Swafford, Author

Over at Romance Magicians, I interviewed Lorraine Heath, and she’s giving away a copy of her latest book.  I LOOOVE it.  LORD OF WICKED INTENTIONS has a hero that’s not perfect and that’s the best kind.

Click here to go to the blog and comment.

Posted in Odd Observation

Change Is Good?

Posted on by Carla Swafford, Author

MM900043729How often are we told that change is good? If you work in the nine to five world, you’ve heard it so often enough you want to scream. Especially when they decide to change for change sake, right?

Anyway, I was reading an interesting article about the popularity of Facebook dropping and that the teenagers are moving in droves to SnapChat. Interesting.

I guess that means tonight I will be setting up an account with SnapChat. Even though I don’t write young adult or even new adult, several of my characters are in their twenties. (Lately, they’re even turning up older, like in their thirties. *gasp*)  But I need to keep up with where the crowd is or moving to. All part of being with the readers. They will grow up and want to read more adult fare.

It’s going to drive my kids crazy.  LOL!   “Hello, sweethearts, Mom’s here!”