News – Rebekah N. Bryan

Meet Sharnita Quickley

I’m getting very close to being ready to publish my second book in the Rockin’ Austen series, Sharnita with the Blue Nails. Today, I’m going to have Brit Byers, of Brit with the Pink Hair, introduce Sharnita to you and do a little interview. Enjoy!

Brit: Welcome, Sharnita. Or would you prefer Shar?

Shar: Either is perfect. Shouldn’t I be interviewing you though? You’re the famous one.

Brit: My dad’s the famous one. Anyway, this is about you, not me. You’re the one who’s been on TV before, right? Some singing show? What was that like?

I Lost NaNoWriMo for the First Time…And It’s OK

This was my seventh year participating in NaNoWriMo and my first year not completing it. And I’m working on being OK with that.

How Technical Writing Made Me a Better Author

I’ve been in technical communications field for eight years now—first as a technical editor for six years, and currently as a technical writer for two years and counting. Regardless of what kind of products I was reading or writing about, or which company I was working for, the core skills remained the same. And I believe those skills have strengthened my work as a fiction writer as well.

Here are some of things technical editing and writing has taught me:

Pay attention to word choice and repetition.

Rockin’ Austen Cover Reveal: Brit with the Pink Hair

Well, it’s done. I finished the manuscript, converted it from Word to e-book using Draft2Digital (which was SO EASY—I highly recommend that method), and submitted it to the Chanticleer contest for Contemporary Romance. Wish me luck!

Now I need to finish the next two books in the series before I publish this one. So while that’s going on, I’m excited to reveal the cover to you!
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Collaboration and a New Fantasy Collection

Get Sixfold Fantasy: A Collection of Six Complete Novels now on Amazon!

“Group projects” was the most dreaded phrase a professor could utter in college classes. In professional settings, it’s “teambuilding exercises.” Ick. Then, in interviews there’s the loaded question, “do you prefer working independently or in a group?”