Taking the Avon Challenge
Nope, I'm not talking cosmetics here, even though you might find an Avon lipstick in my possession... I'm talking about Avon Romance, and their Impulse ebook line. A good writer friend, Cait O'Sullivan, sent me the link to a blog post, Write for Avon Impulse , and I've decided to go for it. Never one for easy choices, I've opted for "What walks the halls of Stormclyffe House?" to write a story about a manor that stood empty for 50 years. I have now created a rough plot outline, setting the story in Victorian Cornwall. A place with a name like that simply must be perched on top of a cliff. Throw in a suicide following a murder 50 years previously, a young, almost penniless heiress, a lord investigating his dark family history, and the dramatic scenery of coastal Cornwall, and I think I have a decent story to go with. It's only meant to be between 15k and 20k words, so I need to focus on the romance (yup, tell that to a history nut like me), wi...