This feature is proving really popular. Maybe we’re all curious about where writers write? Today I’ve lovely Eve Devon on the blog, sharing her writing garret with us. I’m full of envy (again!) over this space. It feels so ordered! A very warm welcome Eve. Over to you:
Thank you for inviting me onto your blog today, Georgia, especially as the subject is showing off my writing cave. Confession: I love seeing other author’s writing spaces. It’s not being nosy you understand—it’s more about being interested in what’s going on around me ;).
So welcome to my garret. A technical term I like to use for the teeny, tiny, room at the top of our stairs. I write with my back to the window to avoid distraction and when I can’t write because I need a distraction I plod downstairs to write at the dining-room table. There I have a wonderful view of all the jobs I haven’t got around to doing in the garden.
On my desk sits Raphael Alejandro, patiently waiting for me to stroke my fingertips over him…I hope it’s not too weird that I’ve named my laptop!
Er … not weird at all, Eve!
I always have a plotting board for my current WIP propped up behind Raphael (big bulletin boards I use to chart the turning points in my story, pin pictures of how I see my characters, places, loglines, quotes and collages). When the book is finished the bulletin board goes up on my wall so that when I come to do edits I can look at it and get right back into the feel of the story.
On the desk I also always have a notebook to go with the book I’m working on and a To Do list of all the other non-writerly things that I worry I’ll forget when I’m caught up in a story. Next to my gorgeous tiffany lamp sits my granite heart bookend. I’ll sometimes reach out and touch it to bring forth the words. I know! But whatever works, right?
My “Craft Tray” usually contains some dodgy knitting or an order for an author’s beaded bookmark for their latest book release. I love making the bookmarks because it gives me an active break from writing but still allows the creative side of me to keep working.
The bookshelves hold books about writing, notebooks, “keeper books”, completed manuscripts awaiting edits and all the “craft stuff” that finds its way out of the chest of drawers I try and contain it to.
So there you have it—a sneak peek into my garret. When you can’t find me there, you can find me here:
https://www.facebook.com/EveDevonAuthor
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7066976.Eve_Devon
Here’s a little background info on Eve and her books:
Bio:
Growing up in locations like Botswana and Venezuela gave me quite the taste for adventure and my love for romances began when my mother shoved one into my hands in a desperate attempt to keep me quiet during TV coverage of the Wimbledon tennis finals! When I wasn’t consuming books by the bucketload, I could be found pretending to be a damsel in distress or running around solving mysteries and writing down my adventures. As a teenager, I wrote countless episodes of TV detective dramas so the hero and heroine would end up together every week. As an adult, I worked in a library to conveniently continue consuming books by the bucketload, until realising I was destined to write contemporary romance and romantic suspense myself. I live in leafy Surrey in the UK, a book-devouring, slightly melodramatic, romance-writing sassy heroine with my very own sexy hero husband!
My Books:
Her Best Laid Plans: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Her-Best-Laid-Plans-Devon-ebook/dp/B00I2GX65A/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1423660182&tag=smarturl-gb-21
The Waiting Game: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Game-Entangled-Ignite-ebook/dp/B00CK55RFG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1423213397&sr=8-3&keywords=eve+devon&tag=smarturl-gb-21
Thanks so much for coming on, Eve and introducing us to Raphael!
Love,
Georgia x
Thanks so much for having me on the blog Georgia 🙂 xx
Eve, I think I have a crush on your laptop 😉