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Killing Charlie

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Jim Cangany Celebrates!

I’m so excited to be here at Word Wranglers, today. October 13 is a special day in my life. It’s my wife Nancy’s birthday. Cue the confetti and balloons! While her birthday is important every year, this year it takes on an even greater significance. First off, today marks Nancy’s fifth birthday since she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I won’t lie. Those days in 2009 when she was going through first chemotherapy, then mastectomy and finally radiation were frightening and stress-filled. But...

Question Friday

So, welcome to our premiere of Question Friday. Since this was my idea, I got to ask the first question. This week I asked my blogmates this question:
What genre or style of book would you like to write, but probably never will?
Liz's answer: A Regency romance, wherein the heroine is older, on the proverbial shelf, for one reason only: Mary Balogh. Because of reading her books--some of them several times--I've become completely fascinated by the period. However, I'll never try one for the...

Inspirational Triggers

Tuesday night, I took Jordan to her Japanese class to which the door is on the fourth floor of a parking garage under the the open sky. After dropping her off, I was startled by the sight of the full moon framed between two trees in the dusky light.

Full moons inspire me. I think because in my heart of hearts, I feel as if I were meant to be a witch. A fictional witch like Heather Blake or Bailey Cates write. I'm pretty sure I have a latent magical gift ready to be unleashed. If only I could f...

Just Keep Going!

Often you shall think your road impassable, somber, and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion ~ Mikhail Naimy

This past summer was wonderful and awful all at the same time. Wonderful because I had two book releases to celebrate and I finished and received edits (I'm learning to love them - pinkie swear) for my first SuperRomance, I saw two new covers and got to share them and drool over them. RadioMan and bebe tagged along with me to the R...

The New Kid

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Again? Really?

          Do you ever worry about being annoying? I certainly do. I think it comes from being the youngest child who spent  yearsbugging the life out of the ones who came before me. It left me with a real fear of being a pest.           I’m blogging all over the place right now. I’m giving things away here and there, just talking at other places, dropping blurbs and excerpts like they were bullets in my promotional gun. See my cover o...

My Last Blog

This is a sad day for me. I have to say good-bye as a blogger with Word Wranglers. My time with the Wranglers has been filled with fun, laughter and a few teary-eyed moments. But life calls, I have a lot on my plate right now, so some things have had to take a back seat.

Although I won't be a contributor with Word Wranglers anymore, I will still stop by to see how everyone is doing. Even if I don't comment, I will be reading the blogs every day.

As for my writing? Yes, the characters still come...

Finding the Descriptive Balance

Yesterday I read Kristan Higgins' new release In Your Dreams. It was a very good book. I finished it in a few hours.  One thing I did notice is how many times she described Jack's blue eyes. Seriously. A lot.

 Which made me realize  that I don't. Ever. I describe a character when they come on the scene, but then I forget about it. I think I might have to work on that.

Imagine the words I could add to my manuscript if I kept reminding readers what colors Dex's eyes are or how mel...

#WriterWednesday: A Little Downtime

So, it's Wednesday. Are you feeling the stress of mid-week? Getting kids to school, meeting deadlines, fixing breakfast-lunch-dinner everyday infinitum, attending unlimited meetings? And then coming home to write and meet deadlines and critique and revise and submit...and then get beaten down by rejections? Yeah, it's a vicious circle and yet we do it all the time because...sometimes we get that high of a 'we'd like to see more' or 'we'd like to buy your book'.

I live for those moments.

Still,...