Getting caught dangling, splitting and splicing.

It’s been a long week folks. One of the drawbacks to being a debut indie author is poverty, which means no copy-editor… So I had to pull my book after getting caught with my participles dangling in public (Talk about embarrassing.)  Now that I’ve spent the week whipping those puppies into submission. We’ll try this…

Appalachian Mountain Talk

Appalachian Mountain Talk Even though I go back to visit in Hendersonville every time I’m back east, I still researched the area my current project is set in. It’s easy to take for granted the things we say and do just because they’re familiar; because every one around us says and does it the same…

Appalachian Culture

My upcoming novella, Dead Dwight: a dark comedy, takes place in North Carolina’s rural Appalachia, an area near and dear to my heart, in the fictional town of Coalhaven.  I grew up about 100 miles east of Hendersonville NC, and was introduced to the area by a gentleman my husband met while serving in the…

The Science of Loving by Candace Vianna

  Available at: Amazon She’s a shy researcher obsessed with muscles. She even has a muscle car. He’s the bad boy rock star of the architectural world, perfectly content with his bachelor status, but his tattoo artist sister has other ideas, and when she decides to play matchmaker, sparks fly.

It’s not p@rn if…

“It’s not p@rn if: It’s a documentary; or, it premieres at Cannes,” Les said, ticking off each point with a finger, “doing the nasty’s relevant to the story; or, is accompanied by a really good sound track. Then it’s art…” So says Leslie Jacobs in my book “The Science of Loving” . Yes folks,  I’ve…