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February 4, 2015
Guest Post: Removing Our Masks by Jan Morrill: Oghmaniacal Blogathon
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Jan Morrill, author of The Red Kimono, is back with some deep thoughts on masks. See original source.
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Removing Our Masks
Posted on February 4, 2015 by Jan Morrill
For years, I tried to decide on what my “brand” should be. Finally, as I re-designed my website a few months ago, it came to me:
Author of stories that unmask…In thinking about past blog posts and many of the stories I’ve written, I realized that my goal in writing is to “unmask” my characters–bring them to a realization of who they really are. Sometimes I give them courage to remove their masks, and sometimes I show the consequences of leaving them on.
It’s the story of me.
One of my favorite books is The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. A book of daily meditations, I read it almost every night before I go to sleep. Today’s meditation talks about our “inner doors.” I believe it’s the same thing as what I call our masks:
There exists for each life on Earth a set of inner doors that no one can go through for us. We can change jobs or lovers, travel around the world, become a doctor or lawyer or expert mountain climber, or nobly put our lives on hold to care for an ailing mother or father, and when we are done, though the worthy distraction could take years, the last threshold we didn’t cross within will be there waiting.
The most powerful and true statement in what Mr. Nepo says affirms that we keep coming back to those inner doors until they are opened. The mask continues to hide us until it’s removed:
Stranger still is how the very core issues we avoid return, sometimes with different faces, but still, we are brought full circle to them, again and again.
The inner door I keep coming back to, the mask that is hardest for me to remove, is my inclination to be who others expect me to be. Somewhere along the road, I developed a keen sensitivity to what others expect, and a susceptibility to becoming that person. Problem is, the “real” me is sometimes not happy with that, and eventually breaks free, often at significant cost.
And, as Mr. Nepo explains, I keep coming back to that door, that mask, again and again, and will continue to do so until, once and for all, I remove the mask of acquiescence.
It’s no wonder the haiku that summarizes The Red Kimono is about a mask:
What does this have to do with writing? Everything.
We may not be aware of what those inner doors are, or aware of what masks need to be removed, but I’ve seen from personal experience that in creating my characters, in writing about life experiences (even if fictionalized) those inner doors often materialize.
Here’s a bit of a writing prompt. Listed below in black are a few things that Mark Nepo suggests to ponder. I’ve added my suggestions in blue, and have written my own answers in italics.
Meditate on an issue that keeps returning to you. Trying to please others.
Relate to it as a messenger and ask the messenger what door it is trying to open for you. Here’s a writing prompt. Interview this “messenger,” which is actually the issue itself. It might sound silly, but here are a few suggestions with my answers in italics. Again, I am interviewing Ms. Trying-to-Please-Others:
When were you born? I was born when you were a child. You were the oldest of five children. I helped you to see how much easier it was to please than to deal with the anger that resulted if you didn’t.
What do you hope to gain by hanging around? It’s what I help YOU gain that keeps me around. I help you avoid conflict and anger. When I’m around, you’re so much easier to get along with.
What are you afraid of? If I go away, people might not like the person you really are.
How will your life change if you move through this threshold? Imagine yourself with your mask removed and write about it. If I remove my mask, people can take me or leave me. But only those who accept me for who I am will be a part of my life. What a weight lifted. I might just float.
How will your life be affected if you do not? Imagine this, too, though chances are, if you haven’t yet removed the mask, you won’t have to do much imagining. Write about it. If I continue to wear the mask of acquiescence, things will be just fine . . . for a little while, maybe even for years. But the “real me” is stubborn and strong, much stronger than the silly mask I wear. She will show her face someday.Well, admittedly, I got a little carried away on this post. Think of it as a shattering of the mask.
I hope you’ll try the writing exercise. You might be surprised at what comes out of it.
What mask do you wear?
Thanks, Jan!
Another good question is – what masks do your main characters wear, and how does that affect their action in the story?
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Writing Skills Book Review: Writing Fight Scenes by Rayne Hall
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As an author, I read books about the craft of writing, publishing, book marketing and similar topics writers need. Today, I’m reviewing an excellent book about writing battles.
Have you ever been reading a good book but found yourself brought right out of the story by a ridiculous fight scene? I have.
One book I read is otherwise excellent, however, the author wrote a hand-to-hand combat scene in which a man bit out a woman’s Adam’s apple.
Wh-wh-wh-wha-???
In case you, like this author, don’t know your anatomy, only men have that bobbing little apple-like protrusion. It’s not possible for someone to bite a woman’s (nonexistent) body part and ruin her vocal chords, leaving her with a permanently husky voice.
I’ve also read stories in which a tiny woman wields a battle axe. If you’ve never picked up one of these weapons, it’s heavy and requires a solid wallop. Not something a tiny woman, or man for that matter, could manage.
I read a sword fight scene in which the warrior pulled a heavy, long sword from his back, when it would not be possible.
Feel free to share any battle blunders you’ve read in he comments. I’d love to read them, and I’m sujre others would as well!
Writing Fight Scenes by Rayne Hall is a top-notch resource for authors writing fight scenes. Chapters cover everything from true crime to were-creatures to nautical fights to fantasy to swordfight, and everything in between.
Here is the book description from Amazon:
This is the bestselling original by Rayne Hall, published in 2011 and updated in 2013.
Learn step-by-step how to create fictional fights which leave the reader breathless with excitement.
The book gives you a six-part structure to use as blueprint for your scene. It reveals tricks how to combine fighting with dialogue, which senses to use when and how, how to create a sense of realism, and how to stir the reader’s emotions.
You’ll decide how much violence your scene needs, what’s the best location, how your heroine can get out of trouble with self-defence and how to adapt your writing style to the fast pace of the action.
There are sections on female fighters, male fighters, animals and weres, psychological obstacles, battles, duels, brawls, riots and final showdowns.
For the requirements of your genre, there is even advice on how to build erotic tension in a fight scene, how magicians fight, how pirates capture ships and much more.
You will learn about different types of weapons, how to use them in fiction, and how to avoid embarrassing blunders.
Please note: This book assumes that you have some fiction writing experience. You’ll benefit most if you’ve already mastered the basics of the craft and want to learn specialist techniques. It is not recommend for absolute beginners.
The book uses British English.
I like how the book is structured, beginning with what the author should consider before the fight commences. Then, various weapons have their own chapter. Male VS female combatants, self defense, and psychological barriers take you deeper into planning. Finally, the book moves into writing skills such as pacing, dialogue, making the reader care and creating erotic tension.
The first decision is whether your scene is to be “gritty or entertaining.” Each style has a different presentation on the page.
Chapter Two is all about location. Different battles lend themselves to different weapons. This chapter helps you decide upon staging.
The third chapter is one of my favorites, because it gives a six-step method for weaving the fight scene into the story. It’s not just about the battle.
You’ll be able to pick and choose the chapters to read when planning your battle. If you’re not sure which polearm or sword to incorporate, you’ll get the basics here. That will help if you need to do ore research.
I love that Rayne Hall includes blunders to avoid in each chapter. This helps the author avoid rookie mistakes that ruin the story’s credibility.
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About Rayne Hall
Rayne Hall writes fantasy and horror fiction. She is the author of over fifty books in different genres and under different pen names, published by twelve publishers in six countries, translated into several languages. Her short stories have been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies.
After living in Germany, China, Mongolia and Nepal, she has settled in a small Victorian seaside town in southern England. Rayne holds a college degree in publishing management and a masters degree in creative writing. Over three decades, she has worked in the publishing industry as a trainee, investigative journalist, feature writer, magazine editor, production editor, page designer, concept editor for non-fiction book series, anthology editor, editorial consultant and more. Outside publishing, she worked as a museum guide, apple
picker, tarot reader, adult education teacher, trade fair hostess, translator and belly dancer.
She is the editor of the Ten Tales anthologies (themed short story collections). Her books on the writing craft are bestsellers.
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February 3, 2015
Guest Post: Proof I May Be a Robot by Karen B. Nelson: Oghmaniacal Blogathon
Send to KindleI’m part of a blogathon or blog tour in the month of February. All participants are Oghma Creative Media authors. Not only are we posting our own articles on certain days, but someone had the brilliant idea we should post everyone else’s too.
Today’s post is by author Karen B. Nelson. See original source.
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Proof I May Be a Robot (or Meet KBNelson 2.0)
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I love my blog. I love talking to interesting people and sharing helpful articles. I dig the occasional blog hop or writer’s group challenge. But the truth is, I have a whole professional identity that I’ve worked hard on, gone to school for, and would just really like you to know about.
I talk about books because I’m a writer. I talk about education because I’m a teacher. But I’m not just talk – I’m here to help anyone who needs assistance with editing their manuscript, meeting a publisher, starting a class, or looking for a little encouragement. If you’d like to comment here, that would be great – but please take a moment first to check out my website, KarenBNelson.com to see what I do when I’m not hanging out with you wonderful people.
It still seems weird to think of myself as “new and improved”, but that may be my A.I. circuits reconnecting. At any rate, I look forward to seeing you again … wherever we shall meet.
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Book Review of Thriller The Geneva Decision by Seeley James
Send to KindleWelcome back to another Write On Purpose book review. Each week, I review a well-written book, highlighting what makes it good from the reader’s perspective and what writing skills and techniques make it an irresistible book. Thus, each review serves both writers and readers.
This week’s excellent read is The Geneva Decision by Seeley James, a thriller about an athlete embarking on a new and dangerous lifestyle.
Like any good thriller, the lead character Pia Sabel is both flawed and larger-than-life in equal measure. That’s part of what makes thrillers exciting to those who enjoy them.
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Pia Sabel plays to win.
Until a few weeks ago, she was an international soccer star. But now she’s taken the helm of her billionaire father’s private security company, and she’s playing against a whole new set of opponents – the kind who shoot to kill.
On her first day on the job, Pia’s client is assassinated in front of her. There’s no time for training, so Pia must trust her instincts and athletic skills to unravel the complicated maze of money laundering and piracy that will take her from Swiss mansions to the jungles of Cameroon.
Her battle-hardened employees suspect she’s just a spoiled rich girl with a mean corner kick. But Pia’s got some unexpected moves of her own. Will they be enough to bring her team through its mission?
What makes The Geneva Decision an exciting thriller?
Author Seeley James said he created Pia Sabel to be the kind of hero his kids and readers wanted to read.
The thing to remember about the thriller genre is that you can’t expect the hero to be 100% realistic. If she were, you’d be reading mainstream or some other genre. The protagonist of a thriller is a mix of imperfect and superlative.
Pia Sabel comes to be the owner/operator of a security company after the untimely death of her father.
On the plus side, she comes to the table with athletic skills as a soccer star and one trained in certain combat skills. This gives her physical abilities determination and a fighting spirit.
On the minus side, she is thrown into a totally new position in a male-dominated field. Many of the formerly tight team leave, not wanting to be under the direction of a rookie raised by billionaires. Pia makes plenty of rookie mistakes, many costly, as she tries to settle into her new role.
Thriller Protagonists
The hero of a thriller is typically larger than life. That’s a convention of the genre. So what a reader expects and desires in a story such as this is a lead character who is as fallible as anyone but with a quality or ability that stretches the bounds of believability.
Someone who wants a 100% realistic character is looking for mysteries or true crime books. Think Sue Grafton‘s Kinsey Millhone ABC murder series or CSI.
Thrillers are ideal for people fantasize about being a superhero or having a special power that makes them exceptional. They’re full of action, overcoming impossible odds, and a main character who is special in at least one way.
Transferrable Skills
I can remember learning about transferrable skills when I was in high school. How can you take a skill you use in situation A and apply it to situation B?
Thrown into the deep end of her father’s elite security company, Pia uses transferrable skills from soccer, including head-butts, kicking, and the must-win attitude of a champion.
Thrown into a Whole New World
Good stories, thriller or otherwise, typically throw the main character into a whole new world. The reader gets to experience their flounderings, difficult encounters with other characters who try to block their way, and the whole road of trials that makes for good reading.
While Pia learned some self protection skills and has physical strength, she knows nothing about running a company, least of all her father’s. People who do not believe in her and feel she was the worst possible choice for taking over the company surround her.
Minor Character Dimension
The one area where I believe t his book could use some improvement is in the minor characters. Pia is obviously so real to the author, and I wish the minor players had more dimension.
From a writing skills perspective, it’s actually not that difficult to make even a character who appears in one or two scenes come to life.
No huge profile required. All it takes is giving a unique habit, quality or peculiarity that makes that character pop off the page.
Thrillers need Thrills
The Geneva Decision has thrills in plenty. Lots of action scenes, lethal situations, and impossible odds to overcome make this story exciting. This is exactly what I would expect in a good thriller, and Seeley James delivers!
I’m about to read the second book in the series.
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About the Author
Seeley James is the author of the Pia Sabel series of thriller short stories and novels. He was first published in The Battered Suitcase and Short Thrills, was a Finalist for DeMarini Award in fiction, and was short listed for the Fish Publishing Award and the Debut Dagger Award.
He discovered his love of creativity at an early age, growing up at Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture in Arizona and Wisconsin. He carried his imagination first into a successful career in advertising and marketing, and then to his real love: fiction.
He created Pia Sabel to be the kind of character that his friends and children would want to read. James has three children; he adopted his first, a precocious and beautiful three-year-old girl, when he was a single nineteen year old. Twenty years later he married, and he and his wife have two more children. They live in Scottsdale, Arizona, and enjoy youth soccer games and sunshine.
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February 2, 2015
Authors: How Can Audio Help You Increase Visibility?
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Guest Post: 20 Sentences by Jan Morrill
Send to KindleThis post is part of a collaborative blogathon by authors of Oghma Creative Media during the month of February. Knowing many of these authors and their writing, I’m pretty sure you’ll find something that will make you laugh and learn. We’d love for you to visit, and if you so desire, comment, like or share!
We’re sharing the other bloggers as well as contributing articles and stories of our own.
This post is by Jan Morrill, author of The Red Kimono. I will be reviewing her book soon. She shares a writing prompt or creativity prompt you might like to try. See original source.
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Oghmaniacal Blogathon: Twenty Sentences
Posted on February 2, 2015 by Jan Morrill
Steve and I did a fun and interesting writing exercise together some time ago. I meant to write a post about it then, but as often happens, life got in the way. I forgot.
But lucky for me, while searching my computer for another file, I came across these sentences and now I have a post idea for this sunny, but frigid Monday morning!
Our little writing project began after listening to a few of the twelve hours (yes, twelve hours) of The Great Courses audio program on “Building Great Sentences” :
Great writing begins—and ends—with the sentence.
Whether two words (“Jesus wept.”) or a sentence in William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight.
By the way, here’s one of those Faulker long sentences:
From a little after two o’clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that — a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes filled with dust motes which Quentin thought of as being of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.
Personally, I think sentences can be too long. I lose my train of thought and have to start over again. But perhaps that’s more a judgement on myself and my reading abilities that it is of the author.
It appears I’ve meandered away from talking about our writing prompt. Here’s what we did:
We wrote the first twenty sentences that came to mind, with little thought about those sentences.
We then picked a few of those sentences and lengthened them according to some of the guidelines discussed in the “Building Great Sentences” audio course.
So, here are the twenty sentences I first wrote. The sentences I chose to expand are in blue:
I love dogs.
Driving makes me happy.
Blue used to be my favorite color.
I’m hungry for a bear claw.
We’ve missed three episodes of 24.
Not sure when I’ll exercise regularly again.
I need an oil change.
I can’t wait for Santa Fe.
Tommy’s smile is the sweetest.
Family above all else?
Let’s paint something.
I miss the ocean.
The wind whispers secrets to me.
What does Scarborough Fair mean?
Soon I’ll be moving again.
I’ve had a good life.
What’s new for today?
I have more than one secret.
I have much to be grateful for.
Maybe we’ll get a dog soon.
And here are the expanded sentences I wrote:
I love dogs, though I’m not sure if it’s the memory of dogs that I love after nine months of not seeing my beloved Jubie and Bear, which, as I think about it, is long enough to have brought a new life into this world, though not long enough to lose memories that can still bring tears to my eyes.
Blue used to be my favorite color, until one day I realized I don’t have to be limited to only one, because why shouldn’t we be allowed a multitude of favorite colors out of the thousands that exist in the world, and so, today, I love azure blue and eggplant purple and taupe and shocking pink and…
We’ve missed three episodes of 24, a show I’d waited for three years to return, but when at last it did, I’d found someone to replace Kiefer Sutherland, a man who takes me on adventures I’d once only dreamed about, and who entertains me so, I forget to turn the television on.
“I need an oil change” was just another thought that popped into my head as I wrote these twenty sentences, and it was true in the literal sense, until I read the one sentence in the context of the twenty, and then I wondered, with a bit of trepidation, if instead it was meant to be a metaphor because feeling rather creaky and old lately, perhaps an oil change would help me run anew.
Tommy’s smile is the sweetest, his grin so big it crinkles his nose, so full of happiness it trickles through to his arms and legs until they flail with joy, so ready to be shared it overflows and spills onto whoever is lucky enough to catch the contagious joy of a child.
Let’s paint something, meet in a room with bright colors and brushes, where we’ll work together but separately, talking as we paint, until, hours later we have created more than one masterpiece.
I miss the ocean, but when I see the boundless blue complexion of the sea, smell her salty aroma, hear all that she whispers to me, I realize she is like a dear friend, who, though I may not have seen for years, makes me feel like I never left her side.
I have more than one secret, though to some, I don’t have many secrets and to a very few, I have none, which is a wonderful, freeing feeling compared to the weight of secrets I shared with hardly a soul in the past.
These were first draft sentences. Some need some polish and refining. Still, I think they are so much richer than the first twenty. Maybe that’s why I like editing so much. My first draft is like sketching in pencil. The editing is like adding the color and texture.
Give this exercise a try. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Thank you, Jan!
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February 1, 2015
Ronda Del Boccio Meeting Readers, Signing Books at Kimberling Area Library Author Book SIgning Day Feb 7
Send to KindleRonda Del Boccio, best selling and award-winning author, is one of forty writers who will be visiting with readers and signing books at the Kimberling Area Library Author Book Signing Day 
This is the fourth annual KAL Author Day.
“I’m so excited to connect with readers who live in my area,” said Del Boccio.
She will have copies of several of her books, including her #1 bestselling book The Peace Seed: Personal and Global Transformation through Storytelling, which she has donated to several prisons around the country to foster inner peace.
She will also have her best selling book of paranormal and fantasy stories, When Assassins and Allies Conspire. This book has four transformational tales, all with animals involved.
The Library is located at 45 Kimberling Blvd in Kimberling City, Missouri. Call 417-739-2525 or visit
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Roy Rogers, Jr. to Speak at Kimberling Area Library’s Authors Book Signing Day on February 7. 2015
Third annual event draws award-winning authors and is free and open to the public, Saturday, February 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kimberling City, Mo. – Well known entertainers Roy Rogers, Jr. and Janice Martin will speak at the Third Annual Authors Book Signing Day at the Kimberling Area Library. The event will feature more than 40 regional authors from Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas and takes place on Saturday, February 7, 2015, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Rogers and Martin are among the ten authors who will speak and a book will be given after each speaker’s presentation.
“We are offering this free, stimulating event to provide individuals an opportunity to meet and talk with a treasure of talent,” said KAL Director Kathryn Kufahl. “We feel fortunate that the event has attracted popular and award winning authors who will be on hand to share their stories, sign books, answer questions and much more. We’re excited to have two popular featured speakers. Entertainer Roy Rogers, Jr. will talk about growing up with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Janice Martin, aerial violinist and 2014 Female Entertainer of the Year, will talk about how she learned to fly.
Speaker topics and times are as follows:
9:50 AM—Seeing Nature Through Black and White Photography—Carl James
10:10 AM—How I Learned to Fly—Janice Martin
10:40 AM—Grandmas are Gorgeous—Trina Licavoli Gunzel
11:00 AM—Folk Customs of the Deep South—Nancy Hartney
11:20 AM—Humor: Earl Eugene Needmore, Need I Say More—Charles King
11:40 AM—Exploring Past Lives—Kay (Sorchia Dubois) Lawson
12:00 PM—Growing Up With Roy Rogers and Dale Evans—Roy Rogers, Jr.
12:30 PM—Tragedy to Extraordinary—Gwen Plano
12:50 PM—Highway 65 Then and Now—Marilyn Smith
1:10 PM—Got Ghosts, Who You Gonna Call—Ruth Burkett Weeks
“We invite everyone to join us on February 7. It’s an opportunity you won’t want to miss,” said Kufahl. Almost every genre of book will be represented at the event including nonfiction, fiction, cooking, children, westerns, historical, romance, health, humorous, family, sci-fi fantasy, folktales, adventure, nature, and young adult.
The Kimberling Area Library is located at 45 Kimberling Boulevard in Kimberling City, Missouri. For more information call the library at 417-739-2525 or visit www.kalib.org.
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Guest Blog Post:The Writers Salad and Whiskey Diet by Sorchia DuBois: Oghmaniacal Blog Tour
Send to KindleAs part of the Oghma Creative Media Authors blogathon, here is the first post You can see the original source on WordPress.com.
Sorchia DuBois is the author of Just Like Gravity, a book which I reviewed right her. Please read the review.
Take it away, Sorchia! (applause)
Oghmaniacal Blogathon–The Writer’s Scotch and Salad Diet, Part Deux
by Sorchia DuBois
My first offering to the Oghmaniacal Blogathon. During February, the authors of Oghma Creative Media will blog and reblog their little hearts out. You’ll get a daily sample of their writing and links to their works to brighten up these dreary mid-winter days. If you enjoy their blogs, please give them a “like” and peruse (and maybe purchase) their published works.
In a previous post, we discussed salad (see the Writers Scotch and Salad Diet, Part One). Today, a bit about the second leg of the diet—Scotch—a vital element of my book Just Like Gravity.
Some time ago, a friend and I rationalized that it should be possible to get all the nutrients you need from various alcoholic beverages and mixed drinks:
• Vitamin C and fruit from screwdrivers
• More fruit servings from Mai Tais and wine
• Grain from beer and rye
• Vegetables from bloody marys and so on.
We should, as our reasoning went, be able to drink our way to health.
Extensive research on the proposition revealed varied results ranging from no, it isn’t possible, all the way to what kind of a moron are you, do you want to die? On the advice of our livers and the people who live downstairs and don’t appreciate drunken polo matches at 3 a.m. on a school night, we reluctantly abandoned the pursuit.
Thank you, Sorchia! Sounds like a wild night!
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January 31, 2015
Authors: Amp up Your Vook Marketing by Writing More?
Send to KindleOne sure way to be successful as a book author is to keep writing!You must have more than one book.#writingadvice #writeabook #author #bookmarketing
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