June 6th to the 12th: “How would you characterize your literary voice? How did you develop it?”

Agents, publishers and readers are always looking for a new and/or fresh voice. How would you characterize your literary voice? How did you develop it?

Anna DeStefano is the best selling author of romantic suspense for Harlequin and Silhouette and contemporary psychic fantasy for Dorchester Publishing. She’s won and finalled in numerous national contests, including twice winning the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award. She teaches craft workshops across the country and blogs regularly about both her writing experience and the fascination with metaphysics and parapsychology that led her to create her psychic-based Legacy Series. For more information, please visit Anna’s blog.

“Literary chameleon” Carole Nelson Douglas is the author of sixty multi-genre novels, currently writing two bestselling series set in a Las Vegas worlds apart: the contemporary Midnight Louie feline PI mysteries and the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, urban fantasy action/crime series. The first author to use a woman from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Irene Adler, as a series protagonist, Carole has won thirty-some writing awards, including RT’s Lifetime Achievement Awards for both Mystery and Versatility.