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DeAnna Cameron--The Official Blog for DeAnna Cameron, author of THE BELLY DANCER
http://deannacameron.blogspot.com
So the novel sells. Now what? I'll share my experience as a first-time author, with a few detours into the art and history of belly dance -- the inspiration for my new book, THE BELLY DANCER.
Recent Posts
Just when you think you have a plan...
...everything changes.Well, maybe not everything, but enough to make me step back, switch gears, and start again. Up until Monday, I had been working on a novel that would've been a pretty major departure from THE BELLY DANCER. But after getting some...
NaNoWriMo Update
I'm still toiling away on NaNowriMo -- pretty much keeping up with the daily min. to get myself to 50K at the end of the month. One thing that is frustrating me a bit is that my pages seem more like a freewrite exercise than novel pages. I'm finding ...
Guest post: Terence Hawkins, author of THE RAGE OF ACHILLES
Terence Hawkins’ debut novel, THE RAGE OF ACHILLES, a modern retelling of the THE ILIAD, debuted earlier this month. It "has the paradoxical, invigorating effect of making Homer's epic feel oddly familiar, and of highlighting its deep strangeness a...
4th day of NaNoWriMo
I have a whole new level of respect for people who accomplish the goal of writing 50,000 words in a month. Yesterday was the first day I even reached the daily minimum of 1,667 words (just a tad over, actually). The first two days? Not even close. So...
I'm hanging out at Caroline Leavitt's place today...
Come by and say hi. We're talking about THE BELLY DANCER and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Little Egypt and some other fun stuff...http://carolineleavittville.blogspot.com/2009/10/read-this-book-belly-dancer.htmlHurry before all the cookies and c...
Another great review...
This time from the lovely Bonita Oteri at Gilded Serpent.Here's an excerpt:"...author DeAnna Cameron deftly peels back the layers of Gay Nineties society and affords a richly descriptive and fascinating glimpse into the life, times and giddy exciteme...

