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Why Writing is Like Playing With A Cat
So this will be a funny post. But since my brain likes to draw parallels between seemingly unrelated things, we’re going to go with it. The other day I was playing with Solstice Kitty, otherwise…
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Pondering the “Author Lifestyle”
I read an interesting article the other day about how writers view our careers. Now I can’t find the article, which is annoying, but the author of the article spoke about our skewed vision of…
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Conclusion of NaNoWriMo2017
Well, if you haven’t already seen, my project for this National Novel Writing Month was actually a manuscript I’d worked on last year, but now from a different perspective. I go into greater detail about…
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Let’s Talk About “New Adult” Novels
Okay, so we all know what Young Adult (or YA) is. Novels written for a teenage audience. And we know what “Adult” books are. Books written for an adult audience. If you don’t know…
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Behind the Scenes In Being Published: Contract Writing vs. “Free” Writing (June 2017)
If you’re not caught up on my writing journey so far, I signed a contract selling my INITIUM series late last year. A month or two later, my editor said I needed to write a…
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Branding Myself Journey (er, the Incomplete Journey)
Like any author in this day and age, “marketing” is a huge part of our job, traditionally published and indie alike. Marketing is this huge vast subject that scares the crap out of most authors,…
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Prequel Problems: Likable Characters
So I’m writing a prequel to my INITIUM series, the first book tentatively due out in Fall of next year. I wasn’t sure I wanted to write a prequel, as the events in it are…
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My Path to Publication
I was recently told that I’ve never actually shared a lot of my history as a writer. Which is funny and now seems obvious. With this in mind, I thought it might be fun to share my…
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What Does YOUR story mean?
I’ve always struggled — in most of my professional writing career, after the blissful stage where I only wrote for myself — with making my writing and stories mean something. Maybe it was the crap…
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Organizing Documents as a Writer
My wonderful partner got me a new computer as a birthday/Christmas present. With my old computer giving me spouts of paranoia that I’d lose all my work (never mind I have three backups for…
