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Avalyn and Father Purgeon sat at the desk. The priest was still soaking in what she’d told him earlier. The cigarette buds in the ashtray had piled up. He lit another and looked over at Sarah, asleep on the couch. She looked peaceful. About as peaceful as a corpse, Father Purg... Read more of this blog post »

Hey everyone, this week I’m answering a question that has been posed multiple times. A lot of you want to better understand Cam and his actions, so he is the theme for today’s Q. Special thanks to Hope, Ashlea, Nick, and many others for asking!

Q: Did Cam ever really love Luce? What is Cam’s true...

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Apparently CNN—a sucky, biased, boring, news channel which is only watched in airports and doctor’s waiting rooms—has a website with blogs on it! Of course, their blogs are of the same high quality that we’ve come to expect from CNN on TV.

Recently I was able to participate in a Twitter fight with...

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This week has been slow on the reading front. I have written on my apocalyptic Zombie novel with about 2500 words a day and I have worked on editing the second book in a fantasy like trilogy that I have been working on for five years. The first book is finished but I would like to have the other... Read more of this blog post »

Had a good day yesterday,

I spent4 hours writing part of book number 8.

I added a flying tiger, a Elf queen. Several different elf clans, ogres and Dawain a tracker.

Hold on to your seat the new adventure is about to start.

Can Ashley, Daniyyel, Aodh and their new friends save the world and defeat... Read more of this blog post »

The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer is a delightful YA mystery which has kept me entranced right from the very beginning. Yes, I know I hardly qualify as the target audience for this novel, but I forget my age when I read books. In many ways, The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer is like H... Read more of this blog post »

Dearly Beloved You Guys,

My heart is overwhelmed by the amazing response I’ve been getting from the NYT piece. The stories you all are sending me about people and families succeeding, struggling, and living bravely with disability are both beautiful and truly humbling. I wish I could reply to ever...

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For a limited time Blue Love and Wrapped in Silk .99 on amazon. Both are the first book in a completed series.

http://www.amazon.com/Wrapped-in-Silk...

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Love-Serie...
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In case any of you enterprising and impatient cats are searching Amazon occasionally, don’t flip out when you see the product page for DUST. It’s just a pre-order page. The book will release on August 17th, which gives me plenty of time to write it, have it edited, and get the physical edition pr...

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1 - Tell us a little bit about your background. How did you get started in narrating/producing audio books?

I was born in the U.K., but made America my home in my early 20s. I paint and voice act for a humble living, the latter being the more humble. The reason being, the paintbox came first, the... Read more of this blog post »

I'm smiling.
I remember when they gave out the first RITA finalist pins — it was at the 2001 conference in Washington, and it was my first RWA conference, and my first book was a RITA finalist.

The pins were new and it was a surprise for everyone when, as we registered they gave them out. They gav... Read more of this blog post »

“You have the minimum amount of my attention.” How does that phrase make you feel? This is a quote from the movie The Social Network, where the character of Mark Zuckerberg explains why he is not focused on the legal proceedings of those who are suing him: When I work with writers, I am focused [... Read more of this blog post »

If you set your bar at "amazing," it's awfully difficult to start.

Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either.

Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path...

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Hi guys!

I will be updating some of the details regarding Misjudged today, including the synopsis, so keep a look out!

A very exciting but manic time, so I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Lots of love,

Sarah Elizabeth :) xxx

Summer movie blockbuster season has begun, and I admit it: I like a good summer blockbuster. Last weekend I saw both Star Trek Into Darkness and Iron Man 3. Basically, I heard that both movies featured potentially problematic villains, and I couldn’t resist comparing them. I’ve been thinking abou...

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Or why we find some conventions harder than others to get to…

Chattacon is as far as Atlanta, when you’re considering driving from where we are, in Spokane…and there aren’t roads between Here and some of There.

We’re going to be looking at Kansas City, which is not much closer, but maybe easier to...

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Amelia Earhart




Coco Chanel

photojojo:

In searching for a special way to photograph her daughter Emma on her 5th birthday, Jaime Moore decided to dress her up as the most influential women in history. She writes about the series:

I wanted her to know the value of these amazing women who had gone...

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The Title Says It All

Don’t be put off by the silly cartoon cover. This cookbook has some serious meat!

Published by the editors of Glamour magazine (complete with a stick-girl drawing that makes Barbie look heavy), it’s easy to dismiss the collection as a guide to living and working in the big...

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Kindle book on free promotion from 25th-29thMay!
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I'm beyond excited to announce that the very talented Dana Gollance of ateliergollance.com is presently working on a new look for Remember When!

Don't get me wrong- I love the pink. The pink stands out. It's bubblegum sweet. It screams "eighties" to me.

BUT... The pink looks YOUNG. As adorable as i... Read more of this blog post »

Just a quick heads up that the MMM ebook bundle - Mirth, Murder and Mystery - is 99 cents for the next month.

MMM is a collection of seven books from seven authors- one of them yours truly.

A Cutthroat Business is in there.

So is my critique partner Jamie Lee Scott's Let Us Prey , a humorous P... Read more of this blog post »

For those just tuning in - I've been posting a chat with my editor of nine years! To read part 1, click here: http://officialmariavsnyder.blogspot.com/2013/05/chatting-with-my-editor-part-1.html and to read part 2, click here: http://officialmariavsnyder.blogspot.com/2013/05/chatting-with-my-edit... Read more of this blog post »

As the guy who wrote Uglies, there are certain kinds of news stories that are forwarded to me by everyone. Hi-tech tattoos, bizarre plastic surgery, stuff that hovers, and of course anything having to do with beauty. So it was no surprise that a recent story about the Miss Korea contest flooded m...

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Yesterday I got two new tattoos. This makes 12 or 13 total depending on how you count. Let's say 13. I like the idea of being on lucky number 13... Generally speaking, I get tattoos to celebrate major milestones or honor someone special to me. I have my cat's pawprint, a nurse in honor of my NICU... Read more of this blog post »

Congratulations to Diane Glidden, who won Thursday's giveaway for a signed copy of A WITCH'S HANDBOOK OF KISSES AND CURSES!

(Diane, please send me your mailing address at jane.jameson AT hotmail.com)

I will be giving away one signed copy of A WITCH'S HANDBOOK OF KISSES AND CURSES every day between... Read more of this blog post »

http://www.lauraannegilman.net/tricks-of-the-trade-ebook-now-available-in-the-uk/

After a delay that was making me twitch (and no, I don't know why there was a delay), TRICKS OF THE TRADE (Paranormal Scene Investigations #3) is available digitally in the UK!

Book 4, DRAGON JUSTICE, will be availabl...

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*A civilization that could pull off a stunt like this would have something to boast about.

http://www.nature.com/news/universal-flu-vaccine-effective-in-animals-1.13042

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Today through Sunday I'm in Phoenix for Phoenix Comicon. Here's my schedule.

Thu, 6:00-7:00PM (Room 104B)

Books & Authors Phoenix Comicon Kickoff

Kick of Phoenix Comicon 2013's Books and Authors programming with a brief look at what all is going on this weekend and a group interview with several...

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And I tweeted it. [View the story "#BreakingJenny" on Storify]

Update 2: Never mind. Ignore the messages. A few months ago I was exploring options to change the method of email delivery of the blog posts and tried a phpList hosted account. It didn’t work out, but I kept it as a back up, because the Feedburner days are numbered. Apparently they decided to sen...

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Jodia Arias' Twitter is a trip.

The martyrdom and enlightenment poses are thoroughly nauseating. And there are only 44 posts.

The one that really made me want to puke was: "Commissary didn't arrive this week. It's like waking up on Christmas
morning and discovering that Santa skipped your neighborh... Read more of this blog post »

WOW, big night. I am officially a published author.. Crazy right!!??!! I even got to be somebody's first (ebook that is)!! I feel,,,,, complete,, on my way.. The stars await!! There is no better a feeling than fulfilling a dream. Hmmmmm, actually, I am sure there are a few things that compare or... Read more of this blog post »

… for being AWOL most of this week! I’ve been hunkered down with revisions for the Victorian Book (aka Stand Alone #2), which comes out next spring.

I’ll be posting more about that here on the website by and by, but if you want to hear about some of the background for the book (and see some prett...

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While Spoilergate was raging (see last two blog posts for deets), I read an interview with Charlaine Harris in Entertainment Weekly. I'll admit at first I merely stared at the picture of the yummilicious True Blood cast, enchanted and slobbering. Half an hour later, having mopped up almost all of... Read more of this blog post »

In my notes for the year 1989 I come across some sentences jotted down from a conversation I had with J, whom I call my “master.” At that time we were talking about an unknown mystic called Kenan Rifai, about whom little has been written. “Kenan Rifai says that when people praise us we should [..... Read more of this blog post »

Here’s why I love my readers. Well, there are so many reasons, but here’s one of them. I’ve been traveling for book events for the past week. Laundry is piling up. The bathroom needs to be cleaned. Book releases are … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »

In the middle of second-pass revisions for Wayfarer, the second Beauty & Madness. I finished this book during the nightmare of buying a house and having everything that could possibly go wrong…go wrong. It’s odd to read it now and remember how I was feeling when I wrote a particular scene, c...

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The Friday Book Club is now open! What are you reading and loving this week?

p.s. Ghost Twitter chat transcript should be available tomorrow. Will link to it soon as I have it.

I did an interview (MP3) this week with The Pod Delusion, following on from my Sense About Science lecture.

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‏من عجائب الكتب
أنك ربما رأيت كتاباً حيًّا ، يتصفحه قارئ ميت

I used to write terrible books all the time.

I've talked about this before, my terribleness. I have even posted some of my terribleness on the internet. By the time I went to college, I had over thirty manuscripts in various stages of finishedness laying around my house and ancient computers and w... Read more of this blog post »

Kenai Peninsula College students invited me to give their commencement address this year. In fear and in trembling, I said yes. My first, my last and my only. I mean it. Director Turner, Chancellor Case, faculty, staff, proud moms and … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »