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Goodreads thinks I need a blog. Okay... Here we go!

So, do I talk about me? Nah... I'm not that interesting. The only thing you need to know about me is that I'm not Allison. She's much smarter, better looking, and more adventurous than me.

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My first historical fiction novel called London Spies has been awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion for excellence in historical fiction.

This is a huge honor to my book and to me as author and I wanted to spread the news.

For those of you who have read and reviewed my book, thanks for your support. Fo... Read more of this blog post »

Almost a month in, the over-the-transom agent search appears every bit as hopeless and impenetrable as I was led to believe it was going to be. It has been an interesting experiment, but I’m not going to continue the blind e-query process for much longer. I’ve only received three form rejections... Read more of this blog post »

There are no solid medical studies (randomized placebo controlled trials) to prove that any type of dietary restriction (plant-based diets, veganism, vegetarianism, gluten-free, sugar-free, cleanses, etc.)  has definitive long-term benefits on growing children and teens. Yet, many parents and yo...

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The Challenge

“I challenge you,” my husband said one afternoon last July. Challenge? He continued. “…To write a book in six weeks.” Mind you, I only started writing that January for the first time ever in my life. This challenge would be my third manuscript, but anytime I’m challenged, a fire of d... Read more of this blog post »

Stay tuned for the cover reveal of my next novel, Shawty Crazy.

I just needed to show you all my stardust dress and red shoes my daughters gave me for my birthday so that I could match my book jacket for the west coast launch of RUST & STARDUST.

You do not write your life in words...
You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It's only Important what you do.
But then again what do I know?
Hope you're having a great today!!!!!

This weekend I am giving away copies of Cafe Chronicles on Amazon starting 8/17 at 12:01 am.

As always, please support independent authors by reviewing and rating.

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AND HOW HE LET THE PAST GO…

Colt witnessed a horrible scene as a child. A scene that had embedded in his mind so deeply, that it took root and sprouted. His hatred for all vampires kept him steady throughout the years. It kept him focused on perfecting his skills, and honing in on how to locate an... Read more of this blog post »

Click on this link to view the new video trailer for Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKNW1...

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454. PROFESIONALISM: Dacă te caută și nu te plătesc, te caută doar pentru că știu că nu trebuie să te plătească.

455. Dacă ești primit undeva cu drag și cu interes, probabil interesul este real, doar „dragul” e prefăcut.

456. Omul este un animal social, iar românul este cel mai social animal dintr... Read more of this blog post »

To celebrate my birthday and the six-month anniversary of Mine being on the shelves, I’ve put together a curated collection of South African YA books.



Introducing the Ultimate SA YA Book Box, a celebration of local youth fiction, with all proceeds going to charity.

Some Twitter friends who have sup...

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如何赚比特币？免费比特币网赚手机也可以【CoinPot】

如何赚比特币？免费比特币网赚使用手机也可以直接把赚取的比特币打到您的CoinPot 钱包里。距离我上一次发表关于比特币网赚的文章已经是几个月前的事了。还记得当时Maomaochia博客刚刚开始不久，刚好当时也在研究虚拟货币这一块，就顺便写了【如何免费挖矿？】，【如何赚取比特币到Coinpot？】和【如何免费快速赚取比特币？2018 Freebitcoin】分享了给大家，反应还不错，也收到很多朋友的询问。如果是还没看过之前比特币网赚的朋友，建议你可以看一下，毕竟全部一起学起来的话，赚的也比较多，比较快。

如果有玩Freebitcoin的...

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Coco’s been doing this thing lately where she doesn’t eat her nighttime Whimzee right away. She waits. I’m not sure what she’s waiting for, but I give it to her, and she just kind of watches me until I come to bed, and she keeps it close by, but she doesn’t start eating. I have to reach over and...

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Fra due settimane – il 30 agosto – esce The Gloaming – I Radiohead e il crepuscolo del rock per l’editore Odoya. Sono oltre 300 pagine di parole e immagini dedicate ai Radiohead e agli ultimi 25 anni di rock. Penserete: c’era proprio bisogno di un altro libro sui Radiohead? Risposta...

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Hi. Today I emailed my quarterly author newsletter to everyone in my email distribution list. Below is a copy in case you are interested in reading. To subscribe, please go to my website. Thanks for reading and sharing with everyone. Have a great day.

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Happy Summer! I can’t believe this year is... Read more of this blog post »

Hinduism - this is a term which has, in reality, nothing to do with the religion it refers. In fact, the people who follow that religion referred by the term Hinduism, do not even have a clue what that religion really is and where its fundamental roots lie. That religion is originally called Sana... Read more of this blog post »

Con uno spintone ben assestato Sam si liberò dalla presa della donna, poi, senza darle il tempo di reagire, tornò sul molo dirigendosi verso il barcaiolo con cui aveva visto parlare Teuta poco prima.
«Quanto vuoi per una barca?»
Il mercante lo guardò stranito: «Non credo tu abbia la stoffa del mar... Read more of this blog post »

S pesmico jutro zbudim, napisala in ilustrirala Živa Viviana Doria, založba Atelje Doria, 2017
Moja prva knjiga s pesmicami za najmlajše je tu!  V njej se skrivajo pesmice o kitu, zajčku, ježku, miški in vsi moji avtorski ilustrirani motivi, ki so nastajali v zadnjih letih. Poiščite knjigico v bl... Read more of this blog post »

Last night I rewrote the opening scene of Alien Redeemed for the hundredth time. And for the first time in months I was happy with what I wrote. Until I get the opening chapter right, nothing else seems to fall quite in place.

Then this morning I checked as a matter of course if Dawn of the Cyborg... Read more of this blog post »

At the beginning of Ling Ma’s debut novel, Severance, Candace Chen is too distracted by office politics and her relationship with her boyfriend to focus on the mysterious illness decimating the human population. Then, for a while, she’s in denial. Long after her colleagues become ill and disappea... Read more of this blog post »

An African-American, Driscoll Collier was a bull of a man, reflecting his days as a championship wrestler. Everyone at Kennedy knew his story: He’d been a kid with a chip on his shoulder at this very school soon after it had opened and had more than a few times visited this very office, only th...

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(Gay Men's Press, 1983)

 

An interesting and engaging novel that chronicles the "marriage" of two gay men in England.  Cyril and Len meet one another at a basic training camp while performing their National Service in 1954.  They exchange "conspiratorial smiles" and quickly fall in love, and begin...

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Hello!!!

Hola a todos, el título de este blog es un tanto misterioso porque nos deja una idea general de lo que podría tratarse, podría ser de algo romántico, o algún poema si somos mentes que preferimos el lado rosa, osea historias con mucho amor, pero no chicos, con esas palabras me estoy refiri...

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Friends: In 1906, composer John Philip Sousa warned the world about 'The Menace of Mechanical Music' in an article attacking machines that brought symphonies into people's homes. He bemoaned the fact that fewer and fewer cheap lutes were being purchased 'all because the automatic music devices ar... Read more of this blog post »

It seems that lately I've been hearing a whole lot about France, (a side effect of my Les Mis, A Tale of Two Cities, and Scarlet Pimpernel obsession), so I thought that I may as well compile a list of French names for your character-naming pleasure, since I haven't added France to my name list c... Read more of this blog post »

Toen ik in oktober 2012 mijn eigen bedrijf startte, had ik niet verwacht dat ik vier jaar later een webshop zou opstarten. Sinds 2016 ben ik bezig met Letters & Lights en het is haast niet te geloven dat ik er al bijna twee jaar mee bezig ben! Twee jaar van vallen en opstaan, van […]

Het beric...

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Trixie lay on the soft kitchen mat where she could keep an eye on the backdoor her family always returned home through. She hated when they left because she never knew how long there were going to be gone. She glanced over at her food and water bowls. She had plenty of sustenance to...

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Here we go. My favourite writers. Maybe some of you might be surprised having read my books - maybe you won't! I wouldn't say I'm overly literary in my tastes or anything, but all of these writers I find have the right mix of pace, prose, charm, wit, humour and most importantly, they don't aliena... Read more of this blog post »

I’m pausing my very serious book posts to reveal an amazing fact about myself: I am Madonna.

Many of you who know me through my day job or through writing will probably think that I am the furthest from Madonna that you could imagine – serious, studious and sober. But ask the people who have known...

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در این برنامه چاپ اول از مجموعه سفرنامههای قاجاری نشر اطراف بشنوید در گفتگو با علی اکبر شیروانی گردآورنده این مجموعه.

هر هفته در برنامه چاپ اول به معرفی کتابهای تازه در حوزه داستان و روایت میپردازم و با نویسندگان و مترجمان و دبیران آنها گفتگو میکنم.

تهیه کننده این برنامه پرویز جمالی است و چاپ اول ر...

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Minu ideaalne snäkikott bussireisiks sisaldaks täiesti ausalt kokakoolat, hapusid pudelikujulisi komme, shokolaadiküpsiseid ja võib-olla mingi mõnus saiake ka sinna otsa. Ma usun, et see nägemus klapiks mu laste omaga ka, aga paraku on isegi minus üllataval kombel mingisugune osa, mis tunneb surv...

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Brezilya taşrasında haldır haldır araba sürerken bir kasaba: Comendador Levy Gasparian . Durmadık, devam ettik, ama sonradan aklıma takıldı. Kimmiş acaba?Gasparian kardeşler 1897’de Sao Paulo’da bir manifatura mağazası açmışlar. Şüphe yok, 1895’te Abdülhamit kıyımından kaçan on binlerden ikisi o... Read more of this blog post »

What can I say… When I put Gibson’s story out there, I thought it’d be picked up by a handful of people, most of whom I know IRL. A few more found it, it seems.

To those who like my stories; Thank you. Please know that your words warm my heart, and have made me drink more celebratory tequilas than... Read more of this blog post »

First published on Tapchief.


Creative non fiction is described as 'True stories well told'. It is similar to the writers tradition of memoir, personal narrative, essay or biography . It has gained momentum and readership in present times as arrangements to life's experiences have changed and the b... Read more of this blog post »

Lovelies,

It’s been awhile, so I wanted to give a few updates. First, I could use all of your positive vibes–tomorrow my MN State Arts Board grant goes up for panel review–decisions will be announced in November. Receiving this grant would mean my second book, title TBA, would be published in 201...

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I’ve been making an effort for months now to both 1) reduce my TBR backlog by reading from my oldest unread books; and 2) cut back on my hypothetical TBR by pruning it with the “Down the TBR Hole” book meme.

Those efforts have been pretty successful, but when I tallied the still-un...

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“Likl after de ninth hour pass, Jesus scream / from him bottommost heart, / "It done now!” and him let go him life.“ Permission? What name that? #DayFifteen of #TheSealeyChallenge is @pamelamordecai’s #debookofmary. If you ever feel you need permission to tell your story, Mordecai’s poems will sh...

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GRIMDARK CONFESSION: I don't actually care about Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire anymore. Warning: This testament will contain spoilers for both the penultimate season of the show as well as up to A Dance with Dragons.
    My interest in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones basically can... Read more of this blog post »

BAYSIDE HEAT IS A @USATODAY BESTSELLER!! 🎉🎉
A huge THANK YOU goes out to all of YOU, my incredible readers! I couldn't do what I love without you!! xoxo

Haven't snagged your copy?
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[image error]i’ve gotten a lot of wonderful questions about the different editions of ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI and where readers can snag signed copies, bonus content, and how international readers can also get the custom tarot cards, so this post is dedicated to all of those (INCREDIBLE!) questions...

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