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March 6, 2015
Happy World Book Day!
Don’t you just love that books have earned their very own global celebration? Me, too! So how are you planning to celebrate?
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March 4, 2015
Why I’m Proud to Write #LikeAGirl
March is Women in History month, and I’m guest-posting today over at I’m Lost in Books to help kick off a Women in Lit event there. The topic is A Question of Identity: Female Writers Posing as Men, and it’s something I feel strongly about — so expect a bit of a rant (though I’m(...)
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February 16, 2015
6 Steps to Fast-Drafting a Blog Post
A while back, I wrote about why I think it’s important for fiction writers to blog (and what to blog about!) — but sometimes, especially if you’re just starting out — doing so can seem like an insurmountable task. The good news is, it doesn’t need to be that way, because I’m going to give(...)
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February 13, 2015
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Or, as we prefer to think of it around my house…Happy Good-Excuse-for-Chocolate Day! Any big plans for romantic celebrations out there? I’ve been told I need to make myself scarce for the afternoon while hubby & daughter carry out a secret agenda. I can’t wait to find out what they have(...)
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Hybrid Theory: a discussion of hybrid publishing
So I had my very first live-radio interview last night, and it was a blast. The lovely Marie Bilodeau (author of Nigh) had been invited onto Kate Hunt’s Literary Landscape show at Ottawa’s CKCU-FM, and she very graciously shared the microphone with me–quite literally, as it turned out. The topic of discussion was hybrid publishing–which(...)
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February 11, 2015
Release Day & Valentine’s Sale!
Forever After, the novella sequel to Gwynneth Ever After, releases today! It’s available in Kindle, Kobo, Nook and iBook formats for just 99 cents — and to celebrate, I’ve put Gwynneth on sale for the same price (buy links below). If you haven’t yet read this “double-chocolate cake” story, now is your chance…but hurry, because(...)
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February 9, 2015
Social Media Stats Every Author Should Know
Welcome back to Social Media Monday, an article series designed to (hopefully) help authors find their way through the morass that is online marketing. To get us on track for 2015, I thought we’d take a quick look at some recent social media stats–because who among us doesn’t wonder sometimes (often?) if our efforts to be(...)
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February 7, 2015
The Honor of Your Presence is Requested…
Forever After is now available for pre-order on Kindle, Kobo & iBook! (Nook is coming soon.) Order yours now for delivery February 12…just in time for Valentine’s Day. The epilogue you’ve been waiting for! Wedding bells are in the air, but single mom Gwynneth Jacobs and Hollywood mega star Gareth Connor are finding that the road to matrimony is anything(...)
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February 4, 2015
The Epilogue You’ve Been Waiting For…
In case you didn’t hear the squeals of joy from my part of the world two days ago, I’m delighted to announce that I’ve finished Forever After!!! The novella sequel to Gwynneth Ever After is 16 chapters long, has more than 21,000 words, and will be released for just 99 cents in digital format (Kindle, Kobo, Nook,(...)
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January 29, 2015
Review of NIGH by Marie Bilodeau
Once upon a time, there were no more happy endings… So reads the tagline on the front cover of author Marie Bilodeau‘s new novella, Nigh, which released yesterday. And people, she’s not kidding. At 57 pages long, Nigh is the first segment in a serialized novel about two worlds colliding: ours, and that of the(...)
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