Colleen Houck

FEATURING GUEST Beth Revis Finding Stories Welcome to the twentieth session of  THE MODERN INK SOCIETY! “If “Plan A” doesn’t work. Remember that there are 25 other letters “.  — Unknown “I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful w ho would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.” -Anna Quindlen  Introducing the lovely Beth Revis Finding Stories   “One of the most common questions that an author gets is, “Where did you find the …

FEATURING GUEST J.A. Souders Villains Welcome to the nineteenth session of   THE MODERN INK SOCIETY! “A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told“.  — Chris Colfer  Introducing the lovely J.A. Souders  Villains “First I want to say a HUGE thank you to Colleen Houck for inviting me here today! I kind of feel like a freshman in high school and a senior I’ve admired from afar has invited me to sit at her lunch table.  You’re truly an amazing writer and person. Mwah! When Colleen first invited me to do a blog post, not gonna lie, I …

FEATURING GUEST Rachel Vincent A Glimpse into Deadline Week in the Life of an Author Welcome to the seventeenth session of   THE MODERN INK SOCIETY! “I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still“.   — Sylvia Plath   Introducing the lovely Rachel Vincent  What My Deadline Week Looks Like “When Colleen asked if I might want to write a guest post, I had no idea what to write, because I’m on a pretty big deadline, and most of my valuable words are going into the book right now, which leaves me very little …

FEATURING GUEST Page Morgan A Day in the Life of an Author Welcome to the sixteenth session of THE MODERN INK SOCIETY! “We live and breathe words. …. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt–I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with …

  FEATURING GUEST J.R. Johansson A Walkabout down Inspiration Lane, How I find Inspiration Welcome to the fourteenth session of THE MODERN INK SOCIETY!   “As soon as I saw you, I knew an ADVENTURE was going to happen”.   — Winnie the Pooh Introducing the lovely J.R. Johansson  A Walkabout down Inspiration Lane, Via TV Land   Boredom and apathy are two of the greatest foes of creation. Still, I run into them from time to time, even in projects that I absolutely love. With me, it isn’t generally a symptom of a project gone wrong or one that …

  FEATURING GUEST Suzanne Lazear What the heck is steampunk? Welcome to the thirteenth session of THE MODERN INK SOCIETY!   “As soon as I saw you, I knew an ADVENTURE was going to happen”.   — Winnie the Pooh Introducing the lovely Suzanne Lazear  What the heck is Steampunk? “I spend a lot of time explaining Steampunk. There are plenty of people still don’t know what Steampunk is, though it’s been around for decades. Even my own husband didn’t know what it was until a couple of years ago. Hubs: Honey, have you heard of Steampunk? It looks like …