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My First Guest Speaking Event
I had to take two and a half months off due to a migraine, so this story isn’t fresh, but I wanted to tell it. My youngest started a creative writing club at her junior high school. That all by itself makes me proud fit to burst! She loves to write and she likes to…
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Nathan Weaver Killed Me
Fictionally! I’m not posting from beyond the grave! Nathan Weaver is a friend of mine who is also an author. He’s taken on a project to try to actually make some money as a writer (which I can understand!) in which he will write a short story or flash fiction for five dollars in which…
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Long Time No See
My goodness, it’s been ten months since I wrote a post for my blog! 2014 wasn’t a good year for me. Not because of things that happened that year, it just sort of… worked out that way. At first I was waiting to feel better – I have fibromyalgia and chronic myofacial pain syndrome. Then…
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Letter from Ko
The Spell Builders was meant to be a short story, just the facts, tell don’t show. But I was having trouble finding my narrator’s voice. Finally I thought to ask her to write me a letter, telling me about herself. The following 612 words changed the whole project. The Spell Builders turned out to be…
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Listening to Characters
I swear, I never sound crazier than when I’m talking about characters. So let me say that I don’t really believe my characters have an independent existence. It’s a metaphor. So let the crazy begin.
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Life as a NaNo Rebel
I chose to do NaNoWriMo a bit differently this time around. I felt a little funny being a NaNo Rebel, after a few years of pumping out a full first draft in a month. You see, NaNoWriMo started something a couple years back for writers who couldn’t quite wait a whole year to do it…
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The Unchanging Heavens is here!
I am very pleased to announce that The Unchanging Heavens is now available at Smashwords and Amazon! To celebrate, I am offering a 50% off coupon for purchases from Smashwords. I regret being unable to offer a coupon for Amazon, but you can purchase a kindle file from Smashwords. The coupon is valid through December…
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Daganu News and Coupons!
Great news! The Unchanging Heavens is mere days from publication! As The Unchanging Heavens is the third full-length Daganu novel, you might like to start from the beginning. To make that easier for you, I’ve created a sale! For the month of November, The Sunshine Line and The Mirror’s Image are 50% off at Smashwords.…
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The Care and Feeding of Plot Bunnies
If you’ve never heard of a Plot Bunny before, the idea is fairly simple. A Plot Bunny is a story idea. It’s cute and fluffy and you want to take it home right away and start loving it and spoiling it. You can’t get a Plot Bunny at the SPCA, they find you. But beware!…
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It’s NaNo Time!
It’s November first, the day when all good writers (and quite a few bad ones) take up arms to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. If you’ve always wanted to write a book, now’s the time. Check out nanowrimo.org. I, however, am being a NaNo Rebel this year. I have a draft I…