Blogging Elsewhere: Ellie Moonwater and Eleanor Maine talk world building using fact

Today Eleanor Maine and her counterpart Ellie Moonwater are over at the DarkSide DownUnder blog talking at the Magic Thursday edition about how they used facts from reality to build the worlds for their paranormal romances Hunters of the Nile, Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, and A Gargoyle for Hotel Gothica. They're also posting excerpts. Why don't you go on over and join them?

Blogging Elsewhere: C.M. Simpson on the Dark Side Down Under Blog Today

DSDU = Dark Side Down Under: A group of Australian writers of romance and other paranormal genres has kindly hosted C.M. Simpson today on their regular Magic Thursday blog. In return she's giving away some of the techniques she uses to whip her manuscripts into shape, before sending them to us. Feel free to head over and join her.