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Exciting News

I’m now a Sizzling PR Tour Host!  What does that mean for you? Lots of great content, new authors and books! I can’t wait to get started!

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Guest Author Schedule is Up!

I’ve made several updates to the page this morning, most notably, the schedule of Guest Authors to the site, you’ll find who’s coming and when to expect them in the side bar on the right. There are...

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NaNoWriMo is swiftly approaching

Are you ready? I’m working on it, I’m trying to finish the first draft of Hunt and I’m working on my ideas for what I’ll work on next month, a new idea. Also, since I’m the local ML, I’m scheduling...

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The end approaches.

I’m hard at work on Hunt, hoping to finish the first draft before the end of the month, then I’ll set it aside and work on an entirely different project (one that’s been percolating in the back of my...

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Downtime. We all need some.

I’ve been pushing hard for the last couple of weeks to finish the first draft of Hunt before NaNoWriMo gets here. At the same time, nothing else has stopped happening, in fact, I’ve added even more. In...

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A really good day.

Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon on a road trip, I ended up with more than five hours behind the wheel, with two kids in the car, both absorbed in the games they were playing on their individual...

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Lost in a never-ending chasm of rewrites.

At least it seems like it. For the last several weeks (pretty much since the first of the year,) I’ve been working on revisions of several projects. I move back and forth, rotating with whichever is on...

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Holy Hell Froze Over Batman!

I’m exhausted. I was up late last night. I stayed up an hour later than I planned to get the last revision of Hunt done. It meant that I only got 3 hrs sleep last night, but it was worth it so I could...

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My experience at the Tucson Festival of Books

I ‘m sure I’ll be talking about the Festival and what I learned for some time, but first I’ll give an general overview. I had never been to the festival before, I’ve never been to a conference before....

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Has your brain ever taken a Twitter day?

You know, one of those days when you have a shockingly short attention span?  I’m having one today. I feel like everything I do must be short and sweet and small enough to put in a tweet. I’ve tried...

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How hard is it and what does it cost to self-publish?

I’ve been asked over and over, and I’ve answered a million questions about it in the last year. Honestly? It’s not hard at all. All it takes is patience and a little bit of computer skill. As for what...

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A long spring break leads to a tired writer.

To start with, we were supposed to leave last Friday to go camping. I had been watching what the weather would be like, cool, but nice. However, I’d forgotten to check road conditions. So I spent three...

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I took my washer for granted.

Until it started leaking and I couldn’t use it for nearly a week. Now, *hangs head* there’s a huge mountain of dirty clothes piled up in my pantry. No, I don’t normally keep clothes in the pantry, but...

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Frigging Washer…

Is still not fixed. We got the part replaced and started it up, and it is still leaking. *sigh* So we dissected the thing again, and discovered that it has a crack in the outer tank. This is a major...

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The Next Big Thing

1. What is the working title of your next book? HUNT 2. Where did the idea come from for the book? It’s the third in a series that I got the idea for from a dream. 3. What genre does your book fall...

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Oops. It’s only partly my fault.

I’ve been working on a project I started several months ago, it was written in bits and pieces, then set aside for several months. In the mean time, I’ve had several more thoughts and I have a much...

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Annual Camping trip, The beginning.

This post was written on 5/12 and posted after I returned from the trip We didn’t get out until 10:30pm on Friday evening. That’s really not too bad considering Kidlets had school and Hubster worked...

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Annual Camping Trip, part two.

This post was written on 5/15 and posted after I returned. We’ve been up here for about five days now, honestly, I’m losing count. The only way I’m able to keep track of the days and the date is my...

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Annual camping trip, part three, Bonus! The trip home.

For those of you wondering, yes, I did go fishing… but I didn’t do the whole get up at the crack of dawn and sit there for hours waiting for a bite thing. The old man got up and took the younger two...

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It’s summer…

Which, here, means hellish heat. Right now it’s almost noon and the official temperature is 90, however, the outdoor thermometer at my house says 105. Yesterday’s official high was 102, I actually saw...

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