Category: Help Wanted
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Gearing up to Publish Help Wanted
Barring unforeseen obstacles, I will be publishing Help Wanted at the end of the month. Help Wanted is different from anything else I’ve written, or will ever write. It’s a fictionalized true story about generosity repaid with abuse. I will be donating 50% of my royalties to WEAVE, an organization dedicated to helping women and children at…
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Progress Report: Help Wanted
As I’ve mentioned before, Help Wanted is a fictionalized account of a true story. When the woman whose story it is — who I call “Amy” in the book — read it, she suggested two more scenes that might help illustrate some of the points the story was trying to make. I wrote the two…
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Excerpt: Help Wanted
They got to the substance abuse clinic just before 9:00 AM. Amy explained to the receptionist why they were there, and they sat down in the lobby. After about 15 minutes, the receptionist called out, “I’m sorry, could you come up here again, I have a question.” Amy went to the desk. The receptionist said,…
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I quack me up: School Shopping
I’ll do this again. I’ll find some snippet from my own work that particularly tickles me… and then subject you to it. The following is from my only non-fantasy fiction WIP (work in progress).