I pulled this off of an older Yapping About YA post and thought it was pretty neat.  There are supposed to be ten examples but I really don’t think I’ve written enough to have that many.  Essentially all you’re supposed to do is list the ten things that are constant throughout all your novels, whether they’re actual sequential novels or not.  It links back to signatures that each author may have and this is a good way to point them out.

How do you know you’re reading a Donna Sirianni novel?

1.  Nostrils are mentioned (I have no idea why).

2. There’s snark.

3. The character is beat upon in some fashion (mentally or physically, they won’t walk away unscathed).

4. There’s a non-prominent relationship sort of forming (I’m not into the full-blown stuff, not yet anyway).

5. There’s always help from at least one adult but the MCs bear the brunt of the weight.

That’s pretty much all I can think of at the moment.  I’m sure I’ll come across more when I start editing.  I haven’t looked at DC since September so I’m sure I’m forgetting something.  So what about you?  What are the similarities running across your novels?