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  • Excerpt: Silver Linings

    Note: Silver Linings is now published. You can go to the Silver Linings page to learn more or click the link to your right to buy the book.  (From Feb. 21, 2009) Rather to my surprise, the port removal surgery went pretty smoothly. There was a glitch, which I will get to, but over all, not…

  • Excerpt: Silver Linings

    Note: Silver Linings is now published. You can go to the Silver Linings page to learn more or click the link to your right to buy the book.  Excerpt: Post-Surgery ‘How I’m doing’ update September 14, 2008. Missed a pain pill in the night and paid for it, but I am having less pain today,…

  • 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,…

  • I quack me up: Two-fer

    Two excerpts from the third Sunshine Line book:

  • I Quack Me Up 2

    As I mentioned in the last post, I am editing my cancer blog thingy. (I are good with words.) I came across this and giggled, so I hope you will too: They got me in the OR and onto the operating table and gave me the nighty-night juice in the IV and then all of…

  • You Think Editing Is Hard?

    Try not editing.

  • Where’s My Magic Button?

    I write fantasy, right? Well, maybe you didn’t know that. But I do. So why can’t I come up with some magic that takes a finished novel and turns it into a book someone can buy? I just want to write the story. I can do that. All this publishing business isn’t nearly as much…

  • 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).

  • A special brand of crazy?

    I know, from talking to other writers, that I’m not the only one who experiences this. Here’s the deal: I think of my characters as having a separate identity from me. They aren’t just my creations, they have a will of their own. I know it sounds crazy, but I don’t think I’ve developed schizophrenia…