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Those Villains You Love to Hate

Oh, yeah, I have love to hate many of villains. As a writer though, it's real hard to stick around in their evil and mangled heads long enough to write them, but when I do… I expose a part of my imagination that sometimes even scares me. Makes me wonder how some of the great authors of horror and the most evilest villains sleep at night.PICK YOUR TYPEEvil to the core and on the edge of

Austin Camacho, A Mystery Writer, Speaker Tells It All

Please welcome Austin Camacho! I've been stalking him ever since he spoke at the MWA Writer's Conference this April and chewed on some of his books while I was at it. He's written tons of Mystery, Action series and a book on Author Marketing. Check him out and please comment and say hello!He's done it all, self-published and is now traditionally published. As well as sold over 1000 copies of his

Have More Than a MOVIE NIGHT

We love movie night at our house. The two times a month we do it is a major affair. We turn it into an all night movie marathon and snack fest.THEME ITWe create a movie night theme. With 4 kids we have a major voting event of putting ideas in a hat and picking the one THEME for the night.CREATE A BIG EVENT OF ITIf the theme is ADVENTURE NIGHT, we create intermission games to play between

SPOOKY BOOKS from THE PAST

In the spirit of Halloween and Fall, I'm taking you down my memory lane of scary books.I'm a lover of spooky character's and scary stories. Truth is, I'm too much of a scaredy cat to write them though. As a writer, that story stays in your head for quite sometime, pushing you further and further into the minds of your characters. And let's face it – I don't want something spooky hanging around

How My Trip to Newport, RI Inspired my writing

Believe it or not, this trip played a major part in my world building for BANDITS. I love to travel!!! It gives me so many great resources for my active imagination. Lots of times when we travel we do rode trips. Why? Because having four kids means living on somewhat of a budget. Let's face it, if I am going to bust my butt working a full-time job and teaching on the side, I am going to enjoy my

BANDITS UPDATES - New Month New set of PRiZes

Yippee! A new set of prizes are kicking off this month. Since October is Halloween month the publisher has given me some cool T-shirts to give out. I have 2 shirts up for grabs this month.Just email the publisher your info, and the link to this blog with T-SHIRT - October prize in the subject. First 2 peeps to respond get the goods. Just click the EMAIL button on the pub website.

CAPITAL BOOKFEST A FUN SURPRISE

Well here it is a year since my journey to get my first book published started. I found myself signing books at the Capital Bookfest (http://capita2.bizland.com/) this weekend. It was sponsored in conjunction with Borders and I must say, I was skeptical when I signed up. You see I've been touring now for about four months and I've done it all. This event though, was one of the most fun events I'

LIFE AFTER THE 1ST DRAFT

Boy, when I first sat down to complete my very 1st manuscript, I had no idea what I was in for. Much less what came after publishing. Was I up for the task…who knew? I had to learn along the way and sure wish I had a mentor to help me muddle through it all.SO YOU FINISHED WRITING YOUR 1st DRAFTYep, when I finished my first draft I figured, hum, I only have to edit this once and then send it out.

FESSING UP-Part of growing up

There are times when you've made a great mistake, got caught sneaking out, or got punished for something you knew darn well you shouldn't have done – and the time to pay the piper is near. Fess up and apologizing is one of the hardest things to do – and truly mean sometimes. We all have to start sometime. THE TRIP UPMy parents had one rule, "Do not leave the house without telling us." Well, you

BALTIMORE BOOKFEST - 2 for 1 DEAL

Oh yeah! I'm going to be at the Baltimore Book Festival that runs this entire weekend. Tons of books, authors, readings, music, great food and everything that has to do with books.BUY ONE of my books at the festival, get the other for free!Here's the Press Release: http://www.prlog.org/10939283-book-si...