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Hang on There, Partner

Good morning and welcome to Monday Blogs. Today, as part of my discussions on the writing process, I’m going to address a growing problem I see with commas.
Now, the poor comma has seen some really ugly discussions of late. Memes on Facebook and Twitter advise of the different ways to use commas. The most popular are explained below…
The Standard Comma: I fought off an attack by Sue, Bob and George. This is one of the most used comma patterns and is acceptable in most situations. However, there have been heated discussions between the Standard Comma and our next example…
The Oxford Comma: I fought off an attack by Sue, Bob, and George. Ah, the Oxford Comma. To be honest, I prefer the oxford comma in most situations, unless it’s necessary to show that Bob and George aren’t fighting the same way as Sue. Then it’s perfectly fine to use the standard comma.
Much to my surprise, the way celebrities speak has now become ways to use a comma. This method has led to many, many questions and even poor comma usage by authors. For example…
The Walken Comma, named for actor Christopher Walken. You know, A, B, and C, they came, to my house? First of all, my editor brain is screaming for relief. We have dramatic pauses and far more commas in this sentence than are necessary. Also, this should be two sentences, one a question and the other a statement. In a perfect world, where everyone doesn’t mess up their grammar, we’d see this sentence written in this manner: You know A, B, and C? They came to my house.
I do hope you’re ready for the next celebrity inspired comma grouping. Personally, it makes my head hurt every time I see it. I want to scream at the person, demanding they tell me just where they learned their grammar. I’m sure more than a few Grammar Cops have fallen out with migraines when they see this one.
I’m talking about the Shatner Comma, named for Star Trek actor William Shatner. Please bear with me. Don’t lose your senses. This will hurt.
You, know, A, B, and, C, they, came, to, my, house?
Yes, you’ve just read that, with a pause for uber-dramatic effect after every single word. Mr. Shatner is an actor and paid to create special emphasis on words. However, the ordinary human being needs to avoid the Shatner Comma, even if they’re attempting to show a pause between words. Use an ellipse. That’s the proper grammatical tool.
This brings us to the new trend I’ve seen authors doing. It’s far uglier than the last two examples. In fact, it’s so wrong and obvious to most experienced authors, I wonder how it ever became a thing.
Lately, I’ve seen many instances of authors putting a comma between the subject and verb of a sentence. It will go something like this…
Laura, walked into the room. She, hated what she had to do next.
Personally, I think this should belong with its own hashtag - #editorhorror. After all, we all know you never separate a subject and verb. That’s an inviolate rule of writing. One of those rules you never, ever break for any reason at all. But these new authors appear to like putting commas between the subject and verb.
Believe me when I say, you will never have a contract offered you by a publisher if you continue to make this horrible grammatical error.



About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond. game when plotting a new story.

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Loss of a Friend

Good morning and welcome to Sunday Blog Share. Today, we’re going to be talking about how friends cope when they are separated.
We hear this on the news all the time lately. Teens are dying or disappearing for one reason or another. People assume the world has become an unsafe place and these teens are being caught up in dangerous situations without much understanding of how to get out.
In The Wrong One, two good friends as small children experience a violent episode where they are witnesses to murder and one manages to escape, only to be the single witness capable of assisting in finding the other one.  As time goes by, the search for Lyssa slows to a snail’s pace when no new clues are discovered. Her friend, Kyle, refuses to give up on her, vowing that she will return home.



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Blurb
One by one, the residents of Landry, Georgia gave up on finding Lyssa Winders alive. It had, after all, been fourteen years since she vanished. The men who invaded her home left behind the bodies of those she loved with all her heart. Only one person never gave up and still searches for Lyssa. Kyle Tinker battles his own demons from that night, when he hid like a coward instead of running for help. Their eighteenth birthday looms on the horizon, and Kyle is determined to bring Lyssa home.
Meanwhile, Kim Tinker is having trouble understanding her dreams about a pretty blonde girl—she has no idea that these dreams are of her life as Lyssa Winters. She also hears a guy who has recently started talking to her--in her head. All Kim wants is to get away from a family which hates her, but doing it safely is the one thing which eludes her.
On the day of the Freedom Festival, Kyle sees the girl he never thought he’d see again. And 









Excerpt
Four-year-old Lyssa Winders landed with a thump on her living room floor. Her bottom hurt from the hard wood, and her head ached from all the yelling and shouting she’d been hearing. Nothing made sense. She just wanted this to stop.
Her parents, Auntie Keisha, Nana Brandy, and Grandpa Monty kneeled in front of her. They had their hands on the back of their heads, and they looked very scared.
“Gonna talk now, Jack?” the stinky man asked. He had carried her out of the safety of her bedroom and dumped her on the floor. “Or do I hurt your kid?”
Stinky jerked Lyssa to her feet. She couldn’t run. He held her tight in front of his nasty smelling body.
“She’s just a baby,” Daddy said. “Don’t hurt Lyssa. Let her go. She won’t tell anyone anything.” He stared at her with scared eyes. “Right baby? You won’t say anything.” She nodded, and her daddy faced Stinky. “See, she agreed. Just let her go.”
“Nope.” A man near her laughed.




About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond. game when plotting a new story.

Find out more about my books at these social media sites:  

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Realistic Dialogue

We’re still on how to make or break your book. This next part is really important. All authors should sit up and take note, because the problems outlined here are prevalent and wrong to do.
First of all, have you educated yourself in how people talk to each other? I’m sure most of you reading this are scratching your heads and saying that you have no need of that, since you already know how people talk to each other.
Hold on there, pardner. (Pardon the Western genre moment) I beg to differ. Far too many of today’s authors have no clue how people talk to each other. You can see that in how their characters interact verbally. Take an exchange such as this one…
“Hey, we’re all meeting at the place on Third Street. The one that’s halfway past the grocery store, but not past the liquor store. You need to drive past Main Street three blocks, because it’s blocked off. There was a wreck there twenty minutes ago, so no one can go that way. Just take First Street west four blocks and go south on Apricot Street until you get to Fifth Street. Turn left and keep going until you’re on Main Street. I’ll be standing on the sidewalk looking for you.”
Uh, yeah. That really sounds natural. Time to head on over to your local hangout. It can be the mall, a park, anywhere there are a lot of people talking to each other. Listen to their conversations. Do they sound anything remotely like what you have in your book? A hint—these people will be talking naturally. Their hands will be moving in all directions, because we tend to talk with our hands as well as our mouths. They won’t give detailed directions around an accident that has most probably been reported on the local news.
The same is going on all over the writing world. Instead of dumping information into the narrative, which everyone knows is a huge no no, they’re using dialogue to get the information out about not just location but also what’s happening.
How do you cure this problem? Listen to people talking wherever you go. Take notes. Commit certain conversations to memory if you think they’ll work in your book in some way. Mostly, relax when inserting detail into dialogue. Just don’t info dump.



About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.                                                                                                  She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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New Release ~ Rrenewal of Faith Vol. 2

A crisis of faith comes to all of us at one time or another. All we can do is lean on the faith that has sustained us and hope for a good outcome. Solstice Faith offers this year’s Renewal of Faith Vol. 2 with three outstanding tales of faith lost and found. “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:25-26 




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A spinster desires a perfect husband.
Cast adrift, they create a miracle for teens.
Would you promise your soul for a second chance at happiness? 









Three stirring stories of overcoming adversity while leaning on faith, each a treat to behold. E.B. Sullivan, K.C. Sprayberry, and Ann Bradford present a trio of tales for those with the devotion to overcome all adversity.

Strength

What can one do to beat the odds in today’s publishing world? What does it take for an author to make it big?
The first thing you must have is the strength to face the daily rounds of promotion, to go to the day job, and to write late at night, after the family is asleep. You need strength to stare at your rankings on Amazon and wonder why you can’t do any better. You must have strength to face another round of “anyone can be an author” and you need to be very strong whenever people say you don’t have a real job.
Yes, the twenty-first century author has discovered there is no longer a promotion person to take care of the daily advertising. In most instances, there is no budget for that except what you can afford to pay out of pocket. Your first lesson in strength comes from devising promotional tools to present your book to the right audience.
It’s very easy to stare at those rankings on Amazon every day. You’re trying to figure out if you made a sale or no one wants your book any longer. Many an author has lost their time to write a new story by obsessing on this. Hint: ignore the numbers. Promote your book and move on. If you get a sale when you weren’t looking, cheer, but don’t obsess. You’ll never write another book.
Ah, the people on social media and their naiveté. They’ll proclaim anyone can be an author. All it takes is a computer, or a phone these days, and sitting down for an hour or two to write a book. Smile. Graciously accept their misunderstanding and move on. Don’t engage these people. Don’t challenge them to write a book. Simply ignore their misconception and keep on writing your current book. If they do decide they can write a book, they’ll soon discover the truth.
As for not having a real job, I will challenge you on this. A real job has set hours. It has a paycheck you can count on being enough to deal with life’s expenses every week, two weeks, or month. Their security isn’t something the author has. We’re literally standing on the edge of a cliff. Very few authors depend on their income from writing to make real money. Most of us have day jobs and we squeeze our writing in between dealing with a home and family.
So, authors, you must learn to ignore the rantings of those on social media who claim we have an easy job. We must ignore the memes that show us as we appear to others. Instead of standing in front of a mirror putting on makeup and doing my hair every morning, I’m busily plotting my next book while sipping coffee. While others fight traffic going to and from work, I’m squeezing in another paragraph or three while preparing dinner. Housecleaning, kids’ sports, family entertainment—all of this is part of a day where I’m the author first and everything else comes between spurts of that new plot being made into a wonderful story.



About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.                                                                                                  She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game  plotting a new story.

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Tackling Social Media

You’re a brand new author, with the publisher you always wanted getting your book ready to go live. One thing you still need to do is become active on social media, yet you dread treading those turbulent waters. It seems that all of your author friends do nothing but promote their books all day long. You wonder if this is how you want to present yourself.
First of all, you need to decide where you’ll start with your social media promotion. My best advice is to stick with the giants—Facebook with your very own fan page, Twitter, Google +, and Instagram. Why these sites? They give you the most exposure without paying a price.
Let’s start with the Facebook fan page. This is completely different from your Facebook personal page. In order to differentiate from your personal page, where you’ll be interacting with friends, you need to create a page strictly for your books. This can be easily done by clicking on the tiny down arrow on the right side of your task bar. It’s beside the “Quick Help” icon. Follow the directions to create a page. Don’t forget to include a banner and picture of yourself. You are, after all, an author now and your fans will want to see what you look like. Once you have the page created and have hopefully shared the information that your book is to be released soon, along with your cover art if you have it, you need to find people to like your page. There are several different ways to do this. You can announce on your personal page that you’d love to have your friends come on over and check out your book(s). You can post on other social media sites about this link. Twitter is best for this.
Twitter is next on the list of sites you absolutely must have in order to succeed, especially if you’re an indie author or with a small publisher. Thanks to a recent change, you can use tweets that are up to 280 characters rather than the 140 characters that was once the norm. After signing on to Twitter, and liking a few other people: friends, other authors, some sites you enjoy (animals, cute sayings, etc), you need to watch your home page to see how others word their tweets. Don’t forget to use hashtags. This is part of the fun on Twitter and gets your post in front of a lot of great groups, especially those that are your book’s genre.
One thing you should be wary of is constantly posting “buy my book” tweets. Be interesting. Create tweets with intriguing pictures that are positive sayings about life in general. Avoid hot topics; they can lose you followers. Even post tweets of sayings by your favorite authors. All of these things will generate interest in you as both an author and an interesting person.
Google + is probably one of the most confusing of the social media sites. Once you join and find friends on there, you’ll discover it’s a mini-blogging component but not quite. I use this to talk about my book of the day, new releases, and books I’ll release soon. One way to get others interested in your books is to +1 things you find interesting in your feed. You will need to go looking for people who have the same interests you do at first, but you’ll soon find people coming to you.
We now come to Instagram. This site is only available for use on your phone. It’s all about pictures and connecting. You’ll have to learn how to type in a book link. I strongly suggest you use a booklinker or bookgoodies or some other shortened link. Less to type, less chance of making a mistake. You gain interest on this site by clicking on the heart of a post you like, once you’ve gained followers. Again, you have to put yourself out first when looking for people to connect with, but you’ll soon find them coming to you.
Set a time once a day to set up your daily promotion. Many authors use auto-tweeters such as TweetDeck or HootSuite to schedule for Twitter. HootSuite also allows you to schedule on Facebook, but has recently begun charging for their services. TweetDeck is free. What these auto-tweeters allow you to do is put up your tweets on Twitter every hour or so throughout the day. This way, you’re not dumping everything at once. Twitter is very much an instant gratification site—your tweet will literally vanish from attention within seconds of posting it. This is why you need to work out times through the day to put a new one out there.
One thing to remember about promoting on social media… you have to do it daily, but don’t be overwhelming. A few posts are good. More than that and people will back off sharing your posts. Be polite, never get into a flame war. Always be the smiling author and you will be a winner.


About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.

Find out more about my books at these social media sites:
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The Prologue

Good morning and welcome to wwwblogs. Today, we’re talking about the prologue. What purpose does it serve in your book? Is it necessary?
First of all, the main purpose of a prologue is to introduce an important element of your story that happens out of sequence with the other events. The best scenario is to use the prologue as an introduction to a major event and then lead the reader there with a carefully crafted story that gives the reader understanding on how all this ties together. A prologue should be short, no more than two to three pages. It’s not standard chapter length because it’s main purpose, it’s only purpose, is to introduce the reader early to important information, whether it happens within the story or is based on events that happened long before the story begins.
Recently, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Instead of strictly following our most important rule of “show don’t tell,” many authors are using the prologue to introduce characters and their background. We’re being told about the setting, the motivations of everyone noteworthy in the story, and some not so noteworthy characters. The setting is described in excruciating detail. These prologues run from fifteen to thirty pages, with the author claiming they’re absolutely necessary for the reader to understand their book.
Uh… clears throat… this prologue is notnecessary by any means. The author has become so insecure about their work that they are telling the reader information they feel isn’t portrayed enough in the book and they couldn’t find a way to put it in there. It’s really that simple. All of the information used in these prologues could have been sprinkled throughout the book, as the characters appeared. A sentence or three here and there was all it would have taken to give the same sense this boring explanation of the book has done, and you haven’t lost readers in the process.
Authors have rules we must follow. Yes, it’s very easy to write a book. It’s not easy at all to go through and edit, revise, and rewrite a book so it’s publication ready. It’s heart wrenching for an author to go through this process with an editor, because they hate taking anything out of the book they’ve sweated for months if not years writing. The arguments about these types of prologues can be called nothing less than legendary but they are never compelling.
Why can’t an author make a case to keep this type of prologue with their editor?
Simply because a good editor will have recognized the prologue is sheer telling the reader the basic plot of the story, what the characters look like, and their motivations. It truly has nothing to do with the actual story and will be the cause of readers shutting the book after the third or fourth page and never buying another of your books.




About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond. game when plotting a new story.

Find out more about my books at these social media sites:

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Life on the Frontier

Welcome to Tuesday Blog Share. Today, we’re looking at life on the frontier. Just how hard was it to survive in a desert region, where vegetables grew stunted in the garden, the well might dry up at any time, and you might face a raid from Indians or criminals? Just how did those hardy families survive?

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Abby and her family provide half broke horses for the Pony Express. She yearns with all her heart to ride for the budding mail venture, but a lady doesn’t do such things. A lady also doesn’t help break horses or really get to do anything fun and interesting. All she has to look forward to day in and day out are long, boring, horrible chores—washing clothes by hand, cooking meals over a scorching hot stove, and listening to her irritating brothers having all the fun.


Families on the frontier expected a lot from their women. They had to keep a clean house, ensure clothing was mended or replaced when necessary, of course sewn by hand, and deal with chores the men were too busy to take care of, such as gathering eggs or weeding the vegetable garden. Doesn’t sound like much, but when you take into account there was no running water only what you pumped from the well, and electricity had yet to be harnessed these chores took on the proportions of too large to be handled. Yet, they were and the women always managed to make it look easy, or so it seems to Abby.



About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.                                                                                                  She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.

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Being the Author

Good morning and welcome to Monday Blogs. Today, we will talk about how to be a professional author on social media.
The world is a very different place in recent years. No longer can people have an opinion without people screaming and shouting that they’re wrong. Make the wrong comment on your social media pages, even if you believe it’s the right stance, and you could soon find yourself losing sales and being ridiculed for being “stupid” and “out of touch with reality.” That’s right. Your opinion about hot topics can only be what your fans are, even if they are on opposite sides of the fence.
An author must stay neutral to sell their books. Yes, we have opinions. Yes, we literally have to tie up our fingers and bite our tongues when interacting with our friends and fans. We can’t afford to be “that author” who spoke up and everyone attacked because they were wrong.
Instead of falling prey to politically charged posts, look for kittens, recipes, and other funny posts to share with your opinion. This will get you more fans. Many people are getting tired of the negativity on social media. Be a maven of change—go positive!


About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond. game when plotting a new story.

Find out more about my books at these social media sites:
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Serving Historical Fiction to Teens

Good morning and welcome to Sunday Blog Share. Today, we’re talking about westerns for teens. Are today’s teens even interested in history enough to read a book about a teen surviving on the prairie or in the harsh mountain environments? Will they like a teen that has to survive in the desert or fight off predators to protect their family?
Well written stories about well-known historical events have been attracting teens since time immemorial. Many a parent has put a book with arm’s reach of a reluctant reader and walked away, only to return and discover they’ve converted an electronic connected child has discovered the magic within the pages of a book.



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What can you, the author, do to entice these teens to your latest historical fiction novel?
Have you considered searching for intriguing events in history, when the brave were settling the wild frontier? What about seeking out the day to day drudgery many children endured as their families struggled to survive in a hostile environment. To some, that may seem boring but when you consider a trip to the store had to be planned carefully, where the family would often pick up what they would need for anywhere from a month to a year, imagine the panic setting in when a teenager discovers they didn’t pick up enough gunpowder to make bullets. For on the frontier, having your weapon ready at all times to shoot your next meal or protect your home from raiders was very important. What about planning a meal? The women often worked from before the sun came up until they served supper ensuring the meal was done properly and in enough quantity to feed people who had worked at backbreaking labor all day.
Historical fiction done in a manner modern day teens can relate to is the best way to garner this interest. Such as in Pony Dreams, where the story starts in the early 2000s, when a young woman shares the news that the telegraph is no longer with her grandmother. This prompts the grandmother to spend the next few years relating a story of a teenage relative who wanted to ride for the Pony Express, but was a girl and therefore couldn’t. Hmmm? Was there really a time when women weren’t allowed to have such exciting jobs? You’ll have to check out Pony Dreams to find out!



About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.                                                                                                  She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.

Find out more about my books at these social media sites:
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