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Category: writing
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New Arrival
It’s finally here. Two years after I’d planned, but it’s been an eventful two years! Dorothy Grant was gracious enough to write a blurb for me… she’s the queen of blurbage! Tanager’s Fledglings When the starship’s captain died midway through a run with a cargo of exotic animals, the owner gave first mate Jem one…
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Hurry up and Wait
As I was working today, I was contemplating how much faster I’ve gotten on certain things in the short time I’ve been in the lab. There’s one task in particular that, when faced with it for the first time, I had to give it laser-intense focus, and couldn’t possibly cope with doing all the components…
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Nearly There
As I type this, I’m uploading the manuscript for Tanager’s Fledglings… It needs to be checked on various devices (during which process we will find typos, they are inevitable!) before it’s ready to launch. I’m also thinking I might tweak the blurb a bit. This is what I have, what do you all think? Jem…
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Killer Research
For other writerly thoughts today, you could check out my Mad Genius Club post. This post is about how a story was killed by research. Or: facts and fiction get muddled easily. I was chatting with a colleague about mustangs, and how I was wondering that the BLM rehomes mustangs in the Tennessee area. She…
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Trouble is my Business [Repost]
I’m continuing to dig through the archives that failed to ‘port over to this host. This post was originally published Dec. 18, 2014. I will always love the English language, and lines like these are a small sample of why… I’ve been reading a collection of stories by Raymond Chandler the last few days, when…
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Why Indie and not Self?
I have an article about why I call myself an Indie author, rather than self-published, up at Mad Genius Club today. It’s also about never feeling alone again, working with pros and more… you should read it, even if you aren’t sure what the distinction is. It’s not the first time I’ve talked through what’s…
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Repetition
Some days it seems like parenting consists of saying the same thing over and over and over and… Some days I know for a fact that is what parenting is. And still, they don’t listen. Except when I start in on the ‘so help me…!’ and then they want to know what? I try not…
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How to Write message Fiction: Guest Post
Written by Doug Irvin How To Write Message Fiction (the Right way) One of the greatest hurdles those known as Social Justice Warriors fail to recognize, is the innate power of a well crafted tale. A good story can raise the spirits high to achieve great goals, it can cause soul-wracking grief when readers…
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Making a Gear Shift
My daughter and I were talking recently about learning to drive. She’s very excited about it, at the same time concerned over getting it right, and we were talking about shifting gears. I don’t know, she told me, when I need to shift gears. And how many gears are there? Four, five? We got the…
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Confidence and Creativity
The First Reader was teasing me the other day. He pointed out that he knows exactly what’s coming. I’ll finish this book (this week, really. I could wrap it in a day but I don’t think that’s happening today) and I will tell him that it sucks. I can’t deny it. it’s not just that…
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Old Lady Music
Yesterday morning, my son and I were hanging out while he was getting ready for school. I was playing music, as I find it helps him get moving in the morning. I usually try to pick happy up-tempo stuff, and to be honest it gets me moving, too. He was sitting at the breakfast bar,…
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Guest Post: Copyright Basics
The lovely and energetic Amie Gibbons is on a blog tour to promote her newest novel, Psychic Undercover (With the Undead) and she’s agreed to appear here with a great post on copyright. She’s a lawyer, but her novels are full of sweet Southern sass and girls who kick ass and take names… Somewhere between…