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I’m a Divine Deity
I’m pretty excited to attend the second annual utopYA Con the last weekend in June in Nashville. I was invited to be a panelist, but I’m just as psyched about attending the other panels. They will be chock full of successful Indie authors and publishing pros presenting invaluable information from both the craft and…
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Release Week and Guest Post: Finding Favor by Lana Long
I’m so excited to welcome debut author Lana Long for the release of her YA novel, Finding Favor. Lana and I were in a now defunct critique group together. I was revising The Scourge, and she was working on Finding Favor. She gave me wonderful feedback and insight as I revised, and I looked forward…
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Cover Reveal: Secret for a Song by Adriana Ryan
If you’ve been hanging around my blog for a while you may remember I hosted a cover reveal for World and Shell and Bone for my writing buddy Adriana Ryan back in December. Well she’s at it again, this time with Secret for a Song. Both novels technically fall into the New Adult category, an…
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Big Sur Writing Workshop 2013
I took a week to collect my thoughts before writing this post on my experiences at the Big Sur Writing Workshop which ran 3/1 to 3/3. I wanted to compose a clear-headed, fair and balanced assessment of the pros and cons of attending. But then I decided, nah. I’ll just tell it like it is.…
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You, too, Can Focus@Will
Have you ever really needed to concentrate at work so you turned on music, only to find yourself moving to the groove or looking up the lyrics to songs instead of working? No? It must just be me. I typically listen to Pandora or Spotify while writing, but sometimes (often) the music distracts me…
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Have Another Mint on Me
Something very cool happened tonight. I was eating at Wahoo’s Fish Taco with my children, a few friends, and their children. (I had the shrimp bowl with brown rice and Cajun beans, in case you were wondering. It was tasty.) I’d just taken a rather uncooperative bite when I noticed a boy with a wide…