Skyla Dawn Cameron's Blog

It's always fun to see what Google searches bring people to my website. Lots of people are looking for me, which is awesome. Lots of people are looking for...other things.

I'll endeavor to answer some of these questions now:

Insulting letter to my boss

Why do you want to write an insulting letter to your boss? Even if your boss is a jackass, it's probably better to restrain your anger and just curse him or her in private.

What is a douche bag

Wikipedia might be better help for that than my blog,

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I finally got a tattoo.

I've wanted one for a good long while. Like, the past dozen years or so. Certain persons always criticized me for wanting to get one, but certain persons are no longer a part of my life, so I figured fuck them. Kinda like why I dyed my hair blonde.

I've always had very clear feelings about body art. I've never felt it's about aesthetics, but rather a tattoo should be a representation of who you are in a certain point in life. A permanent mark on the body is something,

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Hey there! Welcome back to my bi-weekly (I know I said it would be weekly, but I lied) edition of HNTBADBA101, wherein I attempt to educate hapless writers about the pitfalls of dealing with the wacky publishing world.

Today's edition is called...Follow the Fucking Guidelines.

Our romance imprint, Awe-Struck Publishing, recently opened for submissions. If you would like to send me some AWESOME romance, please view the guidelines here: http://www.awe-struck.net/submissions.html

And then...FOLLOW t

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So I live in a crappy apartment.

Rite of passage, right? Yeah, I'm in my 20's, so I need to have a tiny bachelor apartment.

The place smelled like smoke when I moved in. There was old bacon in the fridge and some kind of sludge in the crisper. The first time I went to close the blinds in the bathroom, I discovered that they had a huge gaping hole RIGHT in the middle so neighbours could see me pee (as a result, I never turn my bathroom lights on...ever). One of the elements on my stove doesn't

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So I've written a lot during the past month, and I'm whipping through September's chapter of Children of the Apocalypse (the characters, they beckon...I've reached the point where I reward getting mundane work done by then letting myself write 1K words of CotA).

I'm looking at the characters and subjects that are dominating this part of the story and it's raised some concerns I have...

You know what it's like when you're watching a show or reading a series of books, and there's that character th

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I couldn't embed the video here 'cause it messed up my layout, so head here: http://blip.tv/file/2261825/ to see the brilliant video of Twilight remixed with Buffy.

Just for the record, I *would* watch Twilight if Buffy was in it. Otherwise, please don't tell me I need to see it because I like vampires. Yes, I like vampire stories, but not when the vamps fucking sparkle, and not when they attempt to normalize misogyny and dysfunctional relationships for teenagers. And before you bring it up, y

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Head on over to www.curiokilledthecat.com to view the new website.

I. Love. It.

After a painfully long hiatus, we're back--I have new chapters written (five of them), and I'm winding down the current arc. This weekend, I'm going to do some final cleaning of the site and add a character blog for Briar, and then start getting the store sorted out. And what will we sell at the store? Well, you'll see. ;-)

So why do I think you need to check out this serial? I mean, besides the fact that it's wr

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Welcome to another edition of "How NOT To Be A Douche-Bag Author 101", wherein I explore the various cases of author douchebaggery I have encountered.

I'd like to talk a little bit further about something in my previous blog post.

Email etiquette.

This may come as a shock to some people, but email does NOT necessarily equal "casual."

If you were applying for a job in "the real world", meaning somewhere local where you would go into the office...what kind of cover letter would you send with your resu

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If you had to speak to every author--both contracted and in slush--that I deal with, you would receive very different accounts of who I am. There are some people who think I'm the biggest bitch on the planet. There are others who think I'm the best senior editor EVAH.

Both views, while seemingly conflicting, are completely correct.*

I am a very, very easy person to deal with, and this is the key to a positive relationship with me: I don't take bullshit from people, I have a low threshold for abu

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I feel that publishing advice is something concrete I can give. I mean, I've worked all sides of it and I network a lot--I know, more or less, how things work there.

But I've always been hesitant to give writing advice. My reasoning is...everyone is different.

I *loathe* people who give advice about something like writing as if it's the gospel truth. Every time I hear a writer talk about something that "all" writers need to do, it irritates me. Most of the time, I don't feel like it's true fo

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