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بارها این اتفاق افتاده. من نشستهم توی اتاقم. یک نفر میآید میرود توی اتاق همکارمان. همکار گرامی قبل از این که از طرف در بیاورد که چقدر نویسنده است و چقدر بارش است شروع میکند به سخنرانی برایش درباره مهمل ترین و بی مصداق ترین مسائل ادبیات داستانی.  من چاره ای ندارم جز این که صدای موسیقی...

If you see something, say something. 

But if you say something, know it will cost you. 

In the wake of the exposure within the last year of toxic leaders and cultures at Willow Creek and Harvest Bible Chapel, there’s been a quiet self-assessment going on among some of those who enabled these leader...

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I always find myself way in over my head and with a to-do list that’s longer than a CVS receipt. It has been 3 years since I’ve attempted at starting my own business, even longer if you count the Etsy shop I briefly opened up in college. Overzealous, fickle, and impatient would be...

It gets quiet around here when I’m “between books.” Tamiko and the Two Janitors doesn’t release until summer, but stuff is happening behind the scenes. For instance:

I can’t tell you the number of people who have told me, “Book club saved my life.” They’ve cited reasons such as being shut in at home with a baby or infirm spouse, feeling loneliness or depress...

Have you heard the parable of the frog in the kettle? Most of us have – it is said (unscientifically, I am sure!) that one can put a frog in a pot of warm water, and the frog will happily stay in as you turn up the heat gradually, until that frog is boiled. I doubt that is true for most frogs, bu...

Only 3 WEEKS until MOTION is alive and available all across the interwebs! You can read the first two chapters on my blog (Chapter three is coming SOOON!) and MOTION, SPACE, and TIME are all available for pre-order across the interwebs!

** READ CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 **
http://pennyreid.ninja/…/chapte...

[image error]It’s that time of year in Australia, as the last days of the school holidays wind down and our thoughts turn to A4-sized exercise books, glue sticks and shiny new school shoes.

For parents with kids in the early years of school, or even at preschool, thoughts might also turn to the be...

Due to having a holiday in December I actually managed to get several books read and I had some real treats to savour. I also found a new author to me who I think I’m going to be enjoying for … Read More

On me pose souvent des questions sur le métier d’écrivain, autant en personne que via mon formulaire de contact. La plupart du temps, ces questions sont précises : un auteur a un problème en lien, par exemple, avec un syndrome de la page blanche ou la création d’un plan, et me demande des consei...

A couple of weeks ago I was at Queens University of Charlotte for my graduation residency week – yes, that’s right, this wild ride has finally come to an end and I was awarded my MFA.

It’s hard to believe it’s been two years, in some ways it feels like I only just began the program. In some ways...

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oylmpians:

moodboard: tyche

↦ tyche was the goddess of fortune and prosperity of a city in greek mythology. she was the daughter of aphrodite and either zeus or hermes, although some sources referred to her as an oceanid, a daughter of the titans oceanus and tethys

It’s cold outside. Sweet sainted mother of Mr. Whipple! Right now my phone tells me it’s 4 degrees, FEELS LIKE -8. I don’t care for it. Yesterday I was out there cleaning off the cars and within a small number of minutes, it felt like my hands were on fire. This is bullshit. Yeah, yeah… I know ab...

In February of 2016, I sold out of all my paper copies of Voyage Embarkation and Insomnium. I ran out of Alterra later that same year. By that time, I was already toying with the idea of shutting down the press, and I wanted to redesign the covers of those books, anyway. I also knew that Voyage E...

On Saturday night, I wanted to cry, and I blame Facebook. 

Kind of.

My annual two week break from social media had come to an end (the why of this break and things I learn from it is a whole separate post). The Internet was consumed with the incident involving some teenage boys and a Native America...

Title: Half-Life

Author: Gregory L. Norris

Publisher: NineStar Press

Release Date: January 21, 2019

Heat Level: 3 – Some Sex

Pairing: Male/Male

Length: 14300

Genre: Paranormal, LGBT, witches, zombies, gay, magic

Whitney Abbott travels to the seaside Maine town of Window to begin...

As February approaches, I am scouring our classroom library to find the picture books that I will read aloud every day in honor of Black History month. I try to stay away from the most known stories, after all, if we are to truly celebrate Black excellence then it is important that my students ca...

Przyznam szczerze, że niewiele jest seriali do których tak zmieniłam podejście jak do „Grace i Frankie”. Kiedy oglądałam pierwsze sezony, miałam poczucie, że to produkcja dobrze zrealizowana ale niekoniecznie mająca jeszcze swój jasny rytm i pomysł. Ostatnie dwa sezony przekonały mnie jednak, że...

Source: For 2019’s first flash fiction post, I’m going to share the story that placed 1st in the The Writer’s Workout’s September 2018 500 contest.

Prompt: Write a story embodying the concept of depression in under 500 words.

I can’t hear the music. It used to play nonstop inside my head, each new...

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him without the intervention of a parent or teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.”  Maria Montessori

I remember the day last year when my daughter called me from her high school colleg...

tazmuir:

Dear all,

I fully recognise none of you may be around any more now that the female-identified nipples have been scourged, but should you still roam these un-nippled halls I will shamelessly update you on my novel. O...

Last year, I published a roundup list of The 105 Best Philosophical Novels. Obviously, several new philosophical novels were published during the remainder of 2017 and this past year. In an effort to keep my list up-to-date, I am releasing annual rankings of the best philosophical novels publishe...

I was supposed to go to a song circle on Saturday, but it was cancelled due to bad weather. Sunday I went out view the post-storm scenery. I am accustomed to ice storms that encase twigs in a cocoon of ice, making it look a bit as if the trees were made out of icicles. This was different. The ice...

Once upon a time, I was like you, so excited about my new love and how good I felt, and there was social media to help me spread the word ...

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A couple of months ago I wrote a blog listing the upcoming Self Published Fantasy Releases for December and January. It went well. A lot of people contacted me with the hope that I would turn it into a series of blogs. So, I will. This list will contain a few of the remaining books to be publishe...

Today is the official reveal of the cover and trailer for Only Ever You, my next standalone new adult romance. This one is an angsty, rock star romance about a guy and a girl who fell in love in juvie only for past secrets to rip them apart. You guys are gonna go crazy for Ryder!! Add it to your...

My husband is adopted and has never had an interest in
finding any member of his birth family.  But, when genetic testing became
widely available, he did develop an interest in knowing his genetic
heritage.  So, we recently completed one of those mail-in DNA kits.

I
wasn’t surprised by what I was: mos...

Werken met een budget, dat klinkt zo restrictief. Alsof je niks meer mag, behalve verstandig doen. Als ik vertel dat ik zot ben van You Need A Budget, de digitale budgetcoach waar een geweldig systeem achter zit, dan focussen mensen vaak op wat zogezegd niet leuk is.

Dat je je uitgaven moet bijho...

Aaron and I had a chat recently about lulls in creativity. As a musician he was mentioning that he's currently finding himself lacking motivation to create new songs. I commiserated, because this is a true and valid feeling for everyone, and then told him what I have learned after years and year...