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Category: writing
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Free Story!
My short story Snow Angel will be free for five days. Download a copy for yourself, and tell your friends about it. When you have time to read it, and if you like it, leave me a review! I love to hear feedback, it keeps me writing. This story is dedicated to my sister Juniper,…
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Cheap Story!
My top selling short story is on sale for 50% off! If you enjoy retellings of fairy tales, then you might enjoy Little Red and the Wolf-Man. I grew up reading Russian fairy tales, and this was born out of a love of those stories, my red cardinal cloak, and a desire for a story…
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ASM Review is Up
My Monday post at Amazing Stories Magazine is up, the full review of the anthology I read for them. In other news, I’m prepping a sale on a couple of my stories. One will be free later this week, and one will be 50% off! Keep your eyes on Little Red and the Wolf-Man, and…
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Read my Coffee Cup
My Dad gave me a mug embossed with the words “So Many Books, So Little Time” and I am beginning to feel that as I eye my growing stack of to-be-read books. And those are the visual ones, the hidden books on my kindle and phone are even greater in number, but easier to ignore…
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Heinlein’s Rules of Writing
Timeless. My daily goals are not always met, but I’m trying, every day. Heinlein’s Rules: 1. You must write. 2. You must finish what you write. 3. You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order. 4. You must put the work on the market. 5. You must keep the work on the market until it is sold.
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Keepers of the Gate
I’ve been sent a couple of links today, by friends who know I’m writing and who are aware of the industry. One talks about a man who, when the gatekeepers of traditional publishing pooh-poohed his book on the Civil War “No one’s interested in the Civil War!” took it an published it himself very successfully. Frederick…
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Sheer Twaddle
When I first started writing stories for my children, my ex-husband looked at them and said “you’re using too many big words, you know.” Well, since I was told in highschool by my English teacher to stop using so many big words, this stung, and I started looking into how to write for children. After…
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Why I do what I do
I have been asked several times in the last week alone about indie publishing. Before I talk about what I’m doing, and why, let me point out that I am relatively new to this. Vulcan’s Kittens is the first novel I have published, and that came out in 2013. I have been writing and studying…
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What a Day
It has been a day of achievements. My blog post is up at ASM, the Genderless Mind? which I am very pleased with, I did a good bit of research to write that one. Using gender to fully develop characters requires first knowing something about male/female brains and how they differ. I wrote almost 6000…
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The Marinated Writer
I know what you are thinking, and no, that’s not what I was marinating in. We did have a beer with dinner last night, and that’s as much as I’ve drunk in a week, so I’m not *that* kind of writer. What I am is one gathering flavor for my writing by reading. In this…
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Thinking out Loud
I think a lot. Recently, it’s been about life, more than the creative writing side of my brain, because I’m still in a transitional stage. I do plan to write about 2000 words today, however, because I need to kickstart the writing side of my brain. Last night we were talking about something, and I…
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Digging into Writing
My weekly post is up at ASM: Click Here I compare two of my favorite pasttimes to one another, gardening and writing. Also, how editing is a lot like weeding!