{"id":950,"date":"2015-03-16T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=950"},"modified":"2015-03-16T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:20:35","slug":"eve-devon-and-a-laptop-called-raphael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Eve Devon and a laptop called Raphael!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This feature is proving really popular. Maybe we&#8217;re all curious about where writers write? Today I&#8217;ve lovely Eve Devon on the blog, sharing her writing garret with us. I&#8217;m full of envy (again!) over this space. It feels so ordered! A very warm welcome Eve. Over to you:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s writing spaces. It\u2019s not being nosy you understand\u2014it\u2019s more about being interested in what\u2019s going on around me ;).<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t 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\u2019t got around to doing in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>On my desk sits Raphael Alejandro, patiently waiting for me to stroke my fingertips over him\u2026I hope it\u2019s not too weird that I\u2019ve named my laptop!<\/p>\n<p><em>Er &#8230; not weird at all, Eve!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret-desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-952\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret-desk-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Garret desk\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret-desk-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret-desk-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the desk I also always have a notebook to go with the book I\u2019m working on and a To Do list of all the other non-writerly things that I worry I\u2019ll forget when I\u2019m caught up in a story. Next to my gorgeous tiffany lamp sits my granite heart bookend. I\u2019ll sometimes reach out and touch it to bring forth the words. I know! But whatever works, right?<\/p>\n<p>My \u201cCraft Tray\u201d usually contains some dodgy knitting or an order for an author\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The bookshelves hold books about writing, notebooks, \u201ckeeper books\u201d, completed manuscripts awaiting edits and all the \u201ccraft stuff\u201d that finds its way out of the chest of drawers I try and contain it to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"Garret\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret-300x281.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret-1024x959.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Garret.jpg 1844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it\u2014a sneak peek into my garret. When you can\u2019t find me there, you can find me here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evedevon.com\/\">http:\/\/www.evedevon.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evedevon\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/evedevon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EveDevonAuthor\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EveDevonAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7066976.Eve_Devon\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7066976.Eve_Devon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s a little background info\u00a0on Eve and her books:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t 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!<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Love List: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Love-List-Eve-Devon-ebook\/dp\/B00MLQQS8O\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1423489005&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=eve+devon&amp;tag=smarturl-gb-21\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Love-List-Eve-Devon-ebook\/dp\/B00MLQQS8O\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1423489005&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=eve+devon&amp;tag=smarturl-gb-21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her Best Laid Plans: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Her-Best-Laid-Plans-Devon-ebook\/dp\/B00I2GX65A\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=8-1&amp;qid=1423660182&amp;tag=smarturl-gb-21\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Her-Best-Laid-Plans-Devon-ebook\/dp\/B00I2GX65A\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sr=8-1&amp;qid=1423660182&amp;tag=smarturl-gb-21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Waiting Game: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Waiting-Game-Entangled-Ignite-ebook\/dp\/B00CK55RFG\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1423213397&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=eve+devon&amp;tag=smarturl-gb-21\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Waiting-Game-Entangled-Ignite-ebook\/dp\/B00CK55RFG\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1423213397&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=eve+devon&amp;tag=smarturl-gb-21<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks so much for coming on, Eve and introducing us to Raphael!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Love,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Georgia x<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feature is proving really popular. Maybe we&#8217;re all curious about where writers write? Today I&#8217;ve lovely Eve Devon on the blog, sharing her writing garret with us. I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[197,135,332,333,334,240],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eve-devon","tag-harper-impulse","tag-her-best-laid-plans","tag-the-love-list","tag-the-waiting-game","tag-writing-cave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}