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Blog Challenge Days 3, 4, 5!
I’m catching up! Here are the Blog Challenge Days 3-5. Enjoy! Day 3 – Character Description in 500 words or less Jackalyly wasn’t particularly beautiful for a faerie, but she was the most stunning of...
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I will NOT wish because…
DAY 6 Blog Challenge is: If you only had three wishes what would they be? (no wishing for more wishes). I’ve given this thought all day and I find myself torn by several questions. First, I have put...
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Challenge Day 7 – Say what??
BLOG CHALLENGE Day 7 – Make up a language, what would it be called, who would speak it and where do they live? Dark, dark, darker still, let in the night and drink your fill, Then turn your head, don’t...
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Day 8: My favorite movies are…
Continuting the Blog Challenge, today’s task: Day 8 List your 10 all time favorite movies Oh this is EASY! In NO particular order: 1) 1939 B&W Hound of the Baskervilles w/ Basil Rathbone 2) 1968...
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Challenge 9 &10: Villians & July
Day 9: Create a villain and describe them in 500 words or less First, you feel it in your soul, a deep unbalance that you can’t explain. Awareness follows, telling you that something is there,...
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My book is available now!
Book news: PAPER BONES is now AVAILABLE at Authorhouse, Amazon and Barnes and Noble!!!! Ebook too! I checked out the Kindle copy. Woohoo!!! I’m official! Please, if you get a copy, please go to...
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Book Publishing and Publicity News
Good morning all! Lots of bits and pieces to share, so let’s get started. Hopefully, you’ve seen that my poetry book is published and now available for purchase at Authorhouse (tho web site has...
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Saturday’s I’m Retro
(Sincerest apologies for the big delay in posting here. I had some trouble with the blog and I thought it was WordPress. Turns out the glitch was my fault. Then came the book launch and I just got...
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Guest Blogger – Megan S. Johnston
I am pleased to welcome August’s Guest Blogger, Megan S. Johnston. This month’s offering is on Marketing Your Novel and it comes from an exciting new self-published author. I first came across Megan on...
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I’m “Guesting” at The Mess!
Hi everyone! Wanted to say I’m the guest blogger at Robbie Cox’s blog. Here’s a link to my post, Chasing Immortality (or why I self-published) Leave Robbie a comment (even if you hated my post), and...
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Happy New Year!
Hello and welcome 2014! I contemplated doing a long, reflective post with apologies and promises but I decided that what I owe you is so much more. So here is what is coming in 2014: I’ll give you some...
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We’ll call it Thank You Day
This is an odd day, the after-the-party-should-I-be-hung-over-now-what-do-I-do-how-about-clean-the-house day. For me, it is a day to begin clearing away Santa Claus, putting away the New Year’s Day...
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Perspective – what’s “best?”
Have you ever been told, “You’re one of my best friends”? Someone said this to me long ago and it jerked up my head, fast. One of? I was confused. As I understand the word, “best,” it means that is the...
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Paper Bones is a Finalist!
For those who are new, I entered Paper Bones in the 2013 Book Cover Contest with AuthorsdB. I feel deeply that my book cover is unique and clearly defines the true nature of my book’s mission. From the...
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Writers must use “sense-ences”
At a recent Writers’ Group meeting, we went around the table and introduced our work-in-progress, genre, and what we hoped to achieve in the group. Now, before I get too involved in this story, let me...
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Best Book Cover Winner!
I am delighted to announce that my book, Paper Bones, is the Top Winner of AuthorsdB 2013 Best Book Cover, Arts and Photography (poetry entries go there). As a result, I will be sporting a new GOLD...
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Once Upon a time long long ago…
Most people that I know disdain discussions about their age once they reach the more “exalted” ages. Oh I hear that “50 is the new 40″ and such gobbledygook but I don’t really buy it, do you? Really? I...
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True Story from a sometimes poet
(The following essay is offered in farewell to National Poetry Month and is a true tale. Though the story takes place many years ago, it serves as a lesson to all who say “I am no poet; I know nothing...
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New Press Release for book!
My book, Paper Bones, will be shown by my publisher at the 2014 Book Expo America in New York City, May 29-31, featured in the New Title Showcase. I’m very excited about this because the BEA is the...
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I love you, Mother
Today, I’m remembering my mother, a true lady, a woman of integrity, honor, sensitivity and fun. She loved the taste of lemon, sewing (a talent and skill she developed in my youth), children,...
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