Rocking Around the Holidays with RockStarLit.com Authors
Hi everyone – welcome to our very first Rocking Around the Holidays. From now until December 23rd, we’re giving you the inside scoop and behind the scenes info on Rock Star Authors.
AND…
To celebrate the holiday season there’s a HUGE contest to go along with it – which includes 2 iPad Minis, signed books by all of the authors, gift cards galore and much, much more!
Behind the Scenes with Cole McCade
Pretty much all I need to write is the right playlist and time to concentrate. I don’t really have a writing area since my laptop goes everywhere with me, and I’m as prone to pulling up a story and dashing off a few lines in a cafe as I am to spend hours curled up on the couch scribbling out pages. My real workspace isn’t around me, but on the screen–so I use a program called TextRoom to block out all distractions. It’s a full-screen rich text editor that lets me customize the background, so I can immediately flip my headspace into the mood of my story just by changing the entire visual landscape of the screen, usually with images, fonts, and colors that set the tone for the book. Sometimes I spend ludicrous amounts of time getting everything set up just right, but it’s a sort of mental trigger that lets me focus on the story and story alone.
…that, and I really like the typewriter sounds it makes as I write.
A Look Inside Cole’s Office
Holiday Cheer with Cole Mc Cade
What’s your favorite wintery activity?
Watching the snow fall at night. It might sound silly and very simple, but there’s a certain stillness to evening snowfall, as if it’s falling over the world and blanketing it in silence, each flake that falls carrying away another sound until there’s nothing but peace, the outline of the leafless branches against the night sky, and the ephemeral swirls of snowfall on the wind, gilt into motes of glowing light by the street lamps. Sometimes I catch myself watching it for ages, completely losing track of time, my mind wiping clean of any stress or worry or anything but the simple appreciation for that stillness, and the scent of a crisp snowy night that never seems to go away even with walls and windows blocking it out.
About Cole McCade
Cole McCade is a New Orleans-born Southern boy without the Southern accent, currently residing somewhere in the metropolitan wilds of the American Midwest. He spends his days as a suit-and-tie corporate consultant, and his nights writing romance novels in between fending off Tybalt, his geriatric cat. And while he spends more time than is healthy hiding in his writing cave instead of hanging around social media, you can generally find him in these usual haunts:
Website • Twitter • Facebook • Goodreads • Tumblr • email: [email protected]
You can also get early access to cover reveals, blurbs, contests, and other exclusives by joining the McCade’s Marauders street team at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mccadesmarauders/
Giveaway
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