April Photo Prompt

Happy Spring! This month's photo is courtesy of Carros de Foc and is entitled "La Crida." Cool no? Happy writing!

March Photo and Announcement(s)!

First things first...

 

Happy almost spring everybody! Hope the days are getting warmer, sunnier, and the snow has melted, if you got snow. Us northeasters got a lot of it. 

Here's our March photo and here's hoping it provides some cool stories or inspiration for whatever medium you choose. This image is courtesy of graur codrin from Freedigitalphotos.net.

In addition....

It's been exciting and busy times for the ladies of Fiction Femme Fatale. With good news all around.

If you didn’t already know Amy and Krystalyn both have new, bright & shiny (and fabulous) books coming out later this year!

Last August Amy’s debut YA contemporary thriller GATED published with Random House Books for Young Readers. And just a few weeks ago Amy publicized the paperback cover for it along with the cover for the sequel, ASTRAY where Lyla’s intense story of being raised in a cult continues. This is a thriller you don’t want to miss as Lyla tries to navigate two worlds and finds herself a stranger in both.

In preparation for ASTRAY’s release on August 26th Amy is going on tour with authors Jessica Khoury, Christina Farley, Jessica Brody, and Anna Banks. You can see a teaser trailer here on YouTube. Amy will also continue to do regular video blogs over at YA Rebels on Tuesdays.

You can already preorder copies of ASTRAY on Amazon.com or make sure to request that your local, indie booksellers have it when it comes out.

Krystalyn debuted two YA fantasy novels last year. LEGASEA with Curiosity Quills and SPIRIT WORLD (both are available on Amazon). Her new book is a middle grade fantasy adventure, and frankly the main character is adorable as well as spirited. TRACY TAM: SANTA COMMAND will release with Month9Books in October. We can’t wait to share the cover with you once it’s officially official.

TRACY TAM follows Tracy as she seeks to dispel the myth of Santa in order to win a contest and help her sick cousin. But when she follows Old St. Nick's elves she realizes he may not be a myth after all.

We’re also happy to congratulate Jennifer on being one of the winners of the 2013 SCBWI On-the-Verge Emerging Voices Award for her speculative YA manuscript, THE FACILITY! SCBWI’s executive director Lin Oliver stated, “We were very impressed with The Facility and believe that [it will be] a valuable contribution to children’s literature.” The Emerging Voices Award seeks to foster the emergence of diverse voices in children’s books. As a winner of this award Jennifer will get an all-expense paid trip to attend this summer’s SCBWI conference in L.A. Jennifer was recently featured on the SCBWI blog in an interview with Lee Wind.

We’d also love to hear news from fellow writers as well. Sharing means caring after all. :-)

October's Picture

 

Happy Fall! Happy pre-holidays and in October...Happy Halloween! This photo is aptly called "Into the Fog," from Jim Crossley so maybe it'll inspire spooky, creepy stuff or maybe some elegiac, romance. Who knows? 

Happy writing!

September's Picture

September means almost fall and the start of school. Many may have mixed feelings about this. But it also means our new picture for the month!

This is from George Hodan. Hope it brings lots of great inspiration in your art.

Happy Labor Day weekend!

New Picture for May!

Hey all! Happy May! New month, new picture. This one is courtesy of National Geographic from photographer Jamie Zarza (thanks, Jamie!).

You can check out other images via National Geographic's Photo of the Day.

And, is it a coincidence that May is Short Story Month? Who knows? But hoping you'll tackle some flash/short fiction along with us!

Hope this image provides for some interesting stories, ideas, and all-around creative thoughts.

Happy Writing!

April's Picture!

Happy (official) Spring! At least I hope it is in your neck of the woods. With a new month and season Fiction Femme Fatale brings you a new picture prompt. This one is from the lovely and talented photographer Gillian Woods.

I stumbled upon Gillian's photography on Facebook and fell in love. I also really enjoyed that she shared the process by showing before and after photos to see how a compilation of images became something so much edgier.

Thanks so much to Gillian for allowing us to use one of her pictures as inspiration.

Check out Gillian's (aka GillyFace Photos) Facebook page (and Like it!) as well as her Flickr page. You'll be ohing and ahing all over the place.

Happy Writing!

October's Photo

Okay, it's a new month and you know what that means:

another photo.

*Imagine the drum roll starting now*

In honor of Halloween and all the things that go bump in the night, we have our version of a haunted house. If you like the photo and are moved to write something based on it, by all means send it our way and at the end of the month we will post it along with any other submissions that we receive. In the meantime, look for Krystalyn's story this coming Friday.



Photo by: Elephi Pelephi