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April 15, 2015
Anxiety Dreams of the Terminally Nerdy
I have a new friend who has a PR background. She has been helping me some with Damselfly Inn in the real world. She recently reiterated something I know, but need to hear frequently, because it doesn’t stick: The worst thing that can happen is they say no. So, they …
April 13, 2015
Damselfly Inn Launches Today!
Damselfly Inn, releases today. It’s official. It’s all for you now. I hope you fall in love with the town and its people like I have. The book is available right now both in paperback for Kindle/Kindle app on Amazon. Readersabroad, the book is being released in all of Amazon’s …
April 10, 2015
Fall in Love with Thornton: Creative Geography and Catmint Gap
Though Joss Fuller is a child of the valley west of Thornton College, for the duration of Damselfly Inn, he makes his home in a cabin in nearby Catmint Gap. During some recent research on the Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English in Ripton, I discovered this lovely video …
April 6, 2015
Damselfly Inn: The Print Cover Reveal
One week to launch day. Can I just say how happy the paperback cover makes me? Because it really, really does.
April 3, 2015
How to Write A Novel In Eighteen Steps
Draft 50,000 words in two mad months. Convince self you are literary giant. Lose focus, shelve draft for three years. Discover the entire secondary plot is crap. Scrap it. Rewrite over 18 months. 65,000 words of plausible nonsense. Discover the entire new secondary plot is crap. Scrap it. Rewrite over …
March 26, 2015
A Day In the Life
I read this lovely blog post from Hannah Fielding today, and my gut reaction was, “Must be nice.” She wakes to birdsong and basically meditates on her dreams before breakfasting. She contemplates the view from her home, frolicking creatures today in Kent, but sometimes, apparently in France. She is able …
March 25, 2015
31 Flavors of Fearless: Other People Probably Do This A Lot.
This is the 28th in a supposedly 31 post series. That I started a year-plus ago. I am all about the Long Game, fuh realz. (Yeah, you’re right. I can’t do slang like that. Oh, well.) Soooooooo, what Fearless, Sparkling Things has this intrepid author done? She went out and …
March 23, 2015
Wherein I have a quiet crisis of blogging identity and turn to the nine wonderful people who are still here reading.
There is a lot of content on this old blog. (Seriously, I almost typed “old broad.” I am fast approaching a birthday. My Freudian slip is showing.) It dates back to forever and eleven thirteenths ago, and I have NO IDEA what to do with it. I mean, there are …
March 16, 2015
Fall in Love with Thornton: NECI, The School I Didn’t Attend
Dreams are crazy. That’s the point of them, right? In 2001, I’d been living on my own for a few years, was making okay money, sharing an apartment outside of Boston with a girlfriend, exploring all kinds of silly twenty-something things, and cooking. Like, cooking. I was falling in love …
February 26, 2015
Stranger At Sunset: Interview with Author Eden Baylee
A treat for you today! One of my very favorite authors, Eden Baylee, is here to open up to usabout her 2014 release—her first full-length novel—Stranger At Sunset. Many of you already know I am a devoted Eden Baylee reader. Her erotica is smart, clever, and sexy. Eden understands that …
