Tag: The Sunshine Line
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Excerpt: (As yet un-named) Sequel
I haven’t even published The Sunshine Line yet and I’ve already written two sequels! Well, for what it’s worth, I’ve been a busy little bee this year and hope to get The Sunshine Line and it’s first sequel both out this year. For now, here’s a little teaser: From: the July 28th 1992 chapter Maybe she hadn’t…
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Quick Excerpt: Sequel to The Sunshine Line
I love Nyhus. He’s a cowardly little worm, but he brings teh funnay. It’s not that he’s funny, but that he makes my other character say funny things. I brought him back in the third book, without having planned to. And I was so glad I had, Nyhus scenes are a blast to write. So: Quick…
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Use of The Dream in Fiction
It’s difficult to skillfully incorporate a character’s dreams into a work. Or maybe I should say that it’s easy to do it badly. As I reader, I cringe when a dream sequence is blatant foreshadowing. It doesn’t make it better if the character doesn’t remember their dream. I find myself wondering if the character is…
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Excerpt: (As yet un-named) Sequel
With The Sunshine Line almost ready to be published and Help Wanted at a brief stall (just for a few days) I decided to start working on the (as yet un-named) sequel to The Sunshine Line. There are still plenty of rough edges, as I am hip-deep in the editing process at the moment. That said, I…
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The Birth of an Idea: The Sunshine Line
One day in the summer of ’09 I had a dream. When I woke, all I could remember was a scene. Someone is in a perfectly normal kitchen and fairies start spilling out from the cupboards and such. The image amused me; I thought, I could make a story out of that.
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I quack me up: Two-fer
Two excerpts from the third Sunshine Line book: