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Just because you’ve never died before doesn’t mean you’re immortal.

Consider 1,001 days in the life of a turkey. Each day that goes by, the turkey begins to become convinced that each day will be just like the last. The routine of day 898 — eating, breeding, dusting, and loafing — seems even more...

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I procrastinated at length, over running my first BookBub ad campaign, largely due to my fear of both technology and change. However, I am glad I put my fears aside, as I have been pleasantly surprised by the results .

BookBub offer a number of helpful posts to get you...

For many years, I simply couldn’t talk about my OCD outside of the fortress safe circle of a very few beloveds. Friends, I couldn’t even write about it in my journal. The condition of having a mind peopled vulnerable to episodes of vivid images of darkness and disaster and a heart terrified by it...

I’m full of ideas after reading this amazing essay by Shannon Mattern, “Maintenance and Care: Fixing a Broken World”:

In many academic disciplines and professional practices — architecture, urban studies, labor history, development economics, and the information sciences, just to name a few — mai...

[image error]Here it goes: I’m finished!

Well, the first draft anyway.

Some people who aren’t writers have asked me if I’m ready to send that novel off to my publisher, Pantera Press. Ha! I wish I could write a flawless first draft.

I can’t.

Nobody can.

Decades ago, when I was inexperienced and much m...

My usual Monday post is a day late. I had the day off from my 9-5 job and concentrated on my writing. Being Thanksgiving week, time for writing will be tight. I will be squeezing out every moment I can.

I am happy to say I made good progress yesterday. I hit 40,000 words total on my work in progre...

Exciting news! My co-author K.M. (Kyleen) Neuhold and I are super proud and happy to show you the cover for campy, the next Ballsy Boys book. We’re making great headway, and the plan is to release some time next month. 

But first, let’s show off the cover, which is in style with the sev...

◇女人一生中必定有過被愛護珍惜的時刻，有所分別的只在於是童年、青春期、狼虎年華、甚至於晚年。當那一刻到來，儘管去任性，野蠻好了！因為跟食物一樣，均有食用限期，過期了，就甚麼都沒了。

Desde la ventana del convento alcanzo a envolver el huerto y los viñedos aledaños, el pueblo es apenas una silueta de humaredas más allá de los últimos árboles. La muralla fronteriza, esa donde a veces trepan mocosos harapientos para hurtar zanahorias, no alcanzo a verla. La cubren, del lado de a...

It is that time of year in writingdom: the time of reminding people what fiction we have put out into the world in the current calendar year. Purely for people's curiosity and amusement, of course. Not at all with any expectation or pressure for peo...

Pirmąsyk išleista 2013 metais žurnale „Njuspeipis“

DĖMESIO: Šis kūrinys yra neparemtas tikrais faktais, tikrove ir nieko neteigia. Tai tiesiog vaizduotės kūrinys, neatitinkantis tikrovės, tikrų žmonių, įvykių, objektų ar faktų.

Lietuva, tėvyne mūsų… Taip, tas laikas vėl atėjo – sausio 13-ta, va...

I just turned 28! Here’s what happens when people tell me to have fun.

"We were ahead of the market."

"The market just wasn't ready for it, yet."

"The right infrastructure just wasn't there, yet."...

Is just another way of saying that you created something that the market either didn't want or didn't need...

I can’t wait to share the story with the world!

It’s hard to believe that Something Worth Saving is just one month from launch! I’ve been working on promotion and getting the word out about the book. I’ve also been writing and editing every day, as my 3rd novel for Kensington (What Holds Us Togeth...

Identity theft is real. You haven’t heard from us in a while because despite the enormous efforts we go to, to protect ourselves from this evil in the world, late last week we became the victims of identity fraud. Someone, or an organised group of someone’s, stole our identities. Not Facebook ide...

This column was published Tuesday, November 20, 2018 in The Manhattan Mercury.

I was a little hesitant to just drive up, ring the doorbell and introduce myself, but in the end, that’s exactly what I did.

“Hi, you don’t know me, but my father built this house in which you’re living.”

Pop helped des...

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I am taking part in a special promotion for the American Thanksgiving holiday.

Listed below are all the other authors taking part, with those of their books

which are on offer. Everything is either FREE or just $0.99. I hope you find

something you like!

1) Lynda Belle (Holiday & A...

One of the advantages of belonging to a regional writing group — regular opportunities to refresh the writing mind and put new tools in the writer’s kit.

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This past month at WordsFall, an annual event of the New Brunswick Writers’ Federation, I took a course from well-known poet Lynn Davies (autho...

Mi caricatura como hija de Apolo en el Campamento Mestizo, universo creado por Rick Riordan para sus libros Héroes del Olimpo y Percy Jackson. Ilustración realizada con tinta, acuarela, rotuladores copics y gouche.

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Caricature of me in the Half Blood Camp as a daughter of Apollo from the unive...