At the PopCultureDivas today: An Indo-Muslim wedding in Mauritius!

Hey peeps!

Little update on my dad (since a lot of you asked - thank you!) - he's been discharged from the hospital and is coming home this afternoon. His surgery was a success, and recovery looks like a walk in the park, according to his doctor. :)

How to write about Africa...when you've never been there!

Hey peeps!

It was my turn today to post at The Pop Culture Divas, the group blog I belong to with a few other (awesome!) writers. I've been remiss in posting on my set day lately, so I apologize there...and put across a new post.

As ye all must know, I manage the Ubuntu line at Decadent Publishing. Geared towards African romance, with locations in Africa and characters hailing from or living in Africa and its societies, the line aims at giving reads that sweep you into a whole new world that is simply a continent or an ocean away.

But most authors think you need to be a native of Africa to write for Ubuntu, and the question I am often asked is this:

Random Thoughts' Monday: How the ideas' process works

Hey beautiful people!

It's the start of a new week and I'm over at The Pop Culture Divas, adding my contribution to the amazing Divas' posts about the writing/publishing biz.

Wondering what that's got to do with the pic here? Take a look at the title for the post:

Hit Me Baby One More Time...or how the ideas' process works

My 'muse' and idea whisperer is a loud, sadistic, whipcracking dominatrix - she takes my ideas' process to a new level where I'm often left 2 bricks short of a patio!

What's your idea process like? Come on over and tell me.

Here's the start of the post:

"... I dunno about you peeps, but when ideas come to me, they arrive on the sting of that whip you see right here. Yes, my 'muse' is a sadistic dominatrix.

And what are we writers without ideas? The next book, the next series, the next plot point, the next scene, heck, the next line you're about to write, all spin from the ideas that simply 'happen' into your mind. ..."

Read the rest here

And let me know what the whole ideas' business is like for you over in the comments at The Pop Culture Divas blog!

From Mauritius with love,

Zee

Writing Wednesday: Is Over At...

... the Pop Culture Divas today!

It's time for my every-other-month post there. Drop by! I'm asking whether stories get lost in translation from book to small screen. My cases are True Blood v/s Dead Until Dark, and Rizzoli & Isles v/s The Surgeon & The Apprentice.

And yeah - if you're an Eric Northman fan, there are *ahem* pics up... :)

See you there!

http://www.thepopculturedivas.com/2011/04/lost-in-translation.html

From Mauritius with love,

Zee

Random Thoughts' Monday: Super Chicks in Flicks...

... is happening over at the Pop Culture Divas' blog!

I'm a regular contributor/Diva on the blog, and it so happens that today is my day to post. Come check it out - I'm talking of all those kick ass heroines we get to see in movies and on TV nowadays.

Here's the link:
http://www.popculturedivas.com/2010/08/super-chicks-in-flicks.html

From Mauritius with love,

Zee