Tag: WEAVE
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Season of Giving Special (10% off Help Wanted)
A very bad thing happened to a friend of mine. I saw a lot of it, heard more. She survived to ask that I tell her story, and when I asked her what charity I could donate some of my royalties to – and encourage my readers to donate to – she immediately said “WEAVE!”…
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Special Limited Time Offer for Help Wanted!
For the next week Help Wanted will be on sale! 25% off at Smashwords if you use coupon code: UL62N Please keep in mind that this coupon is for Smashwords, not Amazon. At Smashwords you can download any format you like, including kindle files. Help Wanted is DRM free, for your convenience. 50% of my royalties for Help…
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Help Wanted is Published!
I’m pleased to announce that Help Wanted is now available for purchase. For the convenience of whispernet delivery, you can buy it at Amazon. For download delivery in all e-book formats, Smashwords is the place.
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The Final Stretch!
We’re so close to getting Help Wanted done and published! I worked on editing all weekend, those final little tweaks. I’m taking a day off from it tomorrow and then I’ll throw it on my kindle and see how it reads there. With any luck there won’t be any errors. If I need to make…
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Help Wanted: Excerpt, Chapter Four
Help Wanted will be published by the end of the month. After this there will be one more chapter posted pre-publishing to get you hooked. 4. RESCUE FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE Amy didn’t hear from Paul or see him as “online” on Gmail for some time after that. That was a good way to follow through…
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Help Wanted: Excerpt, Chapter 2
Help Wanted is coming soon! Another chapter to make you quiver with anticipation. Or something like that. 2.BACK TO THE REAL WORLD Amy didn’t have to wait long for more details. Rita tried several more times to contact Paul and he rebuffed her diversely. He wouldn’t answer her calls or her pings. Her emails got…
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Help Wanted: Excerpt, Chapter One
Help Wanted is coming soon! Don’t worry, the published product will look tidier than it does in blog-post format. 1. THE MAN IN THE BOX Bonk. Amy looked away from the television to the laptop on her desk. Her Gmail tab was flashing Paul Fournier. She clicked on the tab and looked at the chat…
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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,…