Wednesday, January 14, 2015

My Blog has Moved!

All future posts will be uploaded to my official author site at http://hnstoneauthor.com/ Please join me over there, subscribe if you like, and we shall make merry in the comments! Or something like that. ;) Thanks! H...

Thursday, January 8, 2015

How I Got My Literary Agent

As most of you reading this already know from the way I've appended "rep'd by Marlene Stringer" to all my social media bios, I have an agent now!!! I know some have indicated an interest in knowing how this all came to be, so allow me to regale you with the story! But first, backstory! I've been writing my entire life. Literally, from the moment I understood I could...

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Top Ten Fiction Books I Read in 2014

I'm excited about a lot of things for 2015, one among them being starting a new Goodreads challenge because BOOKS, amirite? This last year, I had the pleasure of reading some really fabulous ones. I'd like to mention them here. Because when you read a great book, it's good to tell others about it! Then other people read it and soon everyone's reading great books and the world...

Friday, December 12, 2014

Writers, Do the Things That Scare You

Over the weekend, I went with my family to Disneyland and California Adventure. (Yes, I'll give you a moment to be jealous . . . Okay, moment's over. Back to reading.) Most of you are familiar with the rides at Disneyland; they're all fun, kid-friendly attractions. Pirates of the Caribbean, Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, etc....

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Sit with me, friends, and I will tell you the tale of a woman who believed she could write a 50,000 word novel at the same time she was finishing her college degree. Yes, right there is comfortable. No, don't touch the fine china. I don't have any fine china? Oh, then I guess you can touch it. I don't know whose that is. You see, this woman believed in this novel, as many...

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Liebster Award: 10 Questions Blog Hop

Two of my friends, Sandie and Vanessa, nominated me for the Liebster Award. I'm going to be honest, at first I wasn't sure what this award constituted. But then I thought to myself, Self, it has "award" in the title so that can only mean good things, right? In reality, the Liebster is a friendly, pay-it-forward type of award that bloggers pass around to other...

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Seven Sins Blog Hop

My dear friend, Sandie Docker (whose blog is here, click click!), tagged me in this Seven Sins blog hop because she knows I love talking about books almost as much as I love reading them. So, without further ado... Greed – What is your most inexpensive book? Well, since acquiring a Kindle, I tend to get quite a few books for free every month. (I am a glutton for free books,...