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So, I connect to my work through music. I think maybe that's not an uncommon thing to do. Music has tendency to bring out certain feelings and to stay in your memory for a really long time. Pretty much everything I've written has a song tied to it in my mind.

Anyway, I've been writing a short sto... Read more of this blog post »

Há uns tempos atrás fiz um passatempo neste blog de um livro em que colaboro como autora. O passatempo teve o apoio da editora. A mesma garantiu-me que enviaria o livro para casa do/a vencedor/a.

Houve vencedora, enviei a morada da mesma à editora. Combinei com a rapariga para que ela me avisasse... Read more of this blog post »

I'm so proud of almost reaching 2,000 likes on Facebook! To celebrate and say thank you, I will have a rafflecopter giveaway when I reach the milestone of 2,000. What will I be giving away? Two signed copies of 'Promise Me Darkness.' Stay tuned!

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BOOK PIRACY
By: Claire Ryan
Okay, we all know about this. Piracy, the great and terrifying force that’s destroying authors’ means to make a living on one hand, and getting their work in front of thousands of new readers on the other. There’s plenty of conflicting infor... Read more of this blog post »

Guess which of the following happened to me yesterday. Hint, it was more than one. I’ll draw names from the correct guesses and you can pick a book from my backlist on me.

1. Got out of bed and stepped in cat yak (which, hey, isn’t that what everyone wants to do first thing in the morning?)

2. Nea...

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look at the graffiti!!!

Oh my GAHH this is old!

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I never used to believe in “writer’s block.” Part of me still doesn’t want to think it exists, that its something we writers have to power through. There have been times in the past where a story has been difficult for me, where I didn’t know what happened next. I rarely had a deadline or readers...

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In the mood for a sweet love story between a Sadist and an accidental masochist? Need to read something that will not only give you a happy sigh at the end, but also leave you wiggling in your seat? If so, boy have I got a book for you! Clicky de Linky below to see a snippet of Chapter 1 and buy... Read more of this blog post »

Another one-off from Eerie (or Creepy?) that I scanned when I was younger.

Jerks.

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.. أمام مستشفى 57357
التقيت به .. و كان قبيح ، اسود و شاحب اللون ،
يحمل منجلا ..
انه الموت

صرخت .. لا يارب .. لا يارب

سما .. في يدك .. سما .. طفلتك

امي تبكي .. ،
ابو الطفلة و امها يبكيان ..
الكل صامت
شعرت انني
بالقرب من مدينة اشباح

محلات قديمة
كلاب تسير .. باحثة عن لحوم .. باقية
و عظام تلعقها

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Today, Amazon announced Amazon Worlds.
It's their shiny new fanfic platform so "writers" who can't quite get it together to create a milieu, settings, conflicts, arcs, or characters can still make money from their literary masturbation. For the record, I am pro-masturbation. I just don't want to s... Read more of this blog post »

There are a lot of perks to raising kids in a small Southern town like Greenwood, MS. But if you asked my kids what the best part of living here is, they’d all list in their top three things they love— the mailman. In an age of e-mail, text messages, and instant messages, here in Greenwood, rea...

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Hello! Welcome to the Wet and Wild Blog Hop. I love giveaways and for this one I'm offering 2 ebook sets of the Rulers of Darkness series. This is an international giveaway and takes place between May 20th-25th. Skye Waren is the host of this giveaway and is offering 2 wonderful grand prizes: The... Read more of this blog post »

If you follow me on twitter, then you probably saw me post a picture of the US hardcover of Charm & Strange that I received in the mail yesterday. It is so very pretty and special to see. It’s also a sign that the book will actually be published very, very soon.

However, if you’d like to get...

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Fire Nectar by F.M. HopkinsGave birth to a beautiful baby book on Mother's Day. Fire Nectar is now on Kindle. And the Kindle app is free.

And my author page is up and running now as well. Here's what it says since I didn't include a bio in the book.

F.M. Hopkins lives in Los Angeles, CA. She began... Read more of this blog post »

I have reduced the ebook price of Homecountry for two weeks to .99 cents.

Available on Amazon, itunes and Book.ish. Read more of this blog post »

When Smiles Fade- Read The First Four Chapters...http://www.paigedearth.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/WhenSmilesFade.pdf

Buy at: http://www.amazon.com/When-Smiles-Fade-Paige-Dearth/dp/1475096925/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2

Love,
Paige Dearth


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Sorry it’s been so incredibly, terribly, achingly long since I said I’d post winners. The last contest was for a …

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Yesterday I flew into San Francisco in the early morn. I was picked up by yet another incredibly hilarious media escort, a professional musician named David Golia. His wife–he gave me one of her CDs–is a bodybuilding, accordion-playing, seismologist who performs under the name Big Lou.

I must mee...

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FIX THE PAST…SAVE THE FUTURE

In the fall of 2011, I got a phone call from Scholastic, asking if I was interested in a book series they were putting together. “History is broken,” they said, “and these breaks are leading to a coming Cataclysm in which the world will be destroyed. Three kids travel...

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Just been confirmed! No cover as of yet, and I'm afraid I've broken Anne Cain. (Oops.) But hopefully not. I'll let you see the cover as soon as I have it. I do have the first part of the Infected: Undertow soundtrack for you, though. http://8tracks.com/notmanos/infected-... Read more of this blog post »

Let me first start this post by saying I know a little about book packaging, but purely from the outside in--through knowing authors who've done it as work-for-hire and people who worked at packaging houses and as a general "watcher of the industry" and articles that get written about it. None of...

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My last post got me thinking about what a great community we have as writers. So much, in fact, that I had to cut myself off to actually get to the point of that post. But it was at that point I decided I might as well dedicate a whole other post to it. Also, this is my 200th post! So I’m pretty...

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Apparently, the creator of the gif says that the term is pronounced like the peanut butter brand, Jif. I can’t see how this can be true because, as Salvador Rodriguez points out in his article: “But why “jif” and not “gif?” I mean, its a “graphical” interface format, not a “jraphical” one, right?...

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Two years ago, this month, I indie published Rock and a Hard Place. So many wonderful things have happened since then, including three more books. Readers found Rock and a Hard Place and made it a best seller. Today I am awaiting the book’s re-release by HarperCollins Teen. It will be officially...

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Readin’ on a Jet Plane

Some recommended reads for those long flights.

Chick Lit is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit

The grown genre known as “Farm Lit” from the Atlantic.

Report’s of the Bookstore’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

Contrary to popular, small, independent bookstores are not going the way of the...

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on the advice of my financial consultant (my wife) I have reduced the price of
Something Bad to $.99
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and
She Found Them to $.99
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Sorry for the delay, folks. I finally succumbed to unconsciousness this morning in a chair that has some reclining function, so I might have managed to get some decent rest for the first time in days without unpleasant sounds of distress after waking. Anyway, new comics, so yay! Tweet

Pretty close to being done with #3! Just a few more days of formatting and polishing things up, and Work of Art will be ready for launch. In the meantime, I have a sneak peek for you and a very big favor to ask. I am unsatisfied with the blurb. Despite loads of encouragement and help from my pal,...

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Ahoy-hoy, I did an interview over on Ryan Schneider's glitzy and glamorous author blog!

It consists of 10 fascinating questions with 10 witty and interesting answers, if I do say so myself...

Check it out here: http://authorryanschneider.blogspot.c... Read more of this blog post »

Booklist did an early review of THE WIDOW WALTZ, calling it a "witty, heartfelt addition... fiction that will appeal to readers of Elizabeth Berg and Anna Quindlen" and Library Journal described the novel as "well-written, page-turning fiction about a family’s reinvention and healing that will at... Read more of this blog post »

I’ve been so busy with SOUL OF SWORDS that I forgot to post ebook sales for April 2013! Let’s rectify that:

5,069

This is down from the 7,084 of March 2013, but up from the 3,521 of April 2012. I suspect the drop came for three reasons. First, I haven’t released anything new since March. Second, Ap...

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Amazon recently unveiled Amazon Worlds, a platform through which they intend to monetize fanfiction. Intellectual Property owners license their franchises to Amazon Worlds, who in turn allows fanfic authors to write derivative works.

A few things about the press release caught my attention.

Amazon... Read more of this blog post »

Hey everybody, the first trailer is now up for my new movie, Don Jon! I’m so curious to hear what you think of it :o)

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE!

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Me today...

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Well holy shit. I was all settled in for a nice, productive Wednesday, and then Amazon blew up the internet. People love stories. Sometimes, people don’t want stories to end. Sometimes they want them to end differently. Sometimes they want Draco in leather pants, whipping Harry with a ten inch wa... Read more of this blog post »

So, you may remember me revealing the Cover for Girl With Guitar last week (in which I also shared a fun snippet). Well, now the book is LIVE, and it also happens to the author's birthday, so I'm all kinds of happy over here.

Caisey Quinn is a complete doll and I couldn't be more happy for her. He...

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