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This Week in Words | Books on the Brain!

Update First, a very exciting update:  This Artists' Life Volume One: Welcome to the Shit Show launches on Monday! Keep an eye out for the official announcement, which will tell you where you can buy the book. You can also Like This Artists' Life on Facebook to keep up with it, as well as discover ways to [...]

Friday Flash | On Tour

Prompt: A band from New England is on tour in the Southwest, and they are struggling wiht the desert climate. On Tour "Oh! The Grand Canyon!" Trevor exclaimed as they passed the sign on the highway. "Sixty miles," Jack said dryly from the driver's seat. "That's at least two extra hours in Arizona." The others [...]

Interview | Lily White LeFevre, part one

One of my favorite things about becoming part of this blogging community is all of the great writers I have discovered through their blogs. The technology available to us gives us a great opportunity to be seen as indie writers, and to connect with others. Romantic novelist Lily White LeFevre was just that sort of discovery [...]

eBook Publishing | Preparing to Launch

This week is a busy week! This Artists' Life hits the market next week, and I've got a long to-do list to turn my manuscript into a ready-to-sell eBook. Since it's my first, I've had to do my fair share of research to prepare. Here's the aggregate of the to-do list I've amassed for preparing to [...]

Friday Flash Weekly Writing Prompt

this week's prompt: A band from New England is on tour in the Southwest, and they are struggling with the desert climate. Here's the deal: Friday Flash is a weekly writing exercise shared by thousands of writers worldwide. For me, it has become an invaluable routine that strengthens my fiction writing skills, so I've created [...]

This Week in Words | 16 Hours to Go

Update Saturday, 1:30 a.m. – I am posting this from a Greyhound bus headed to Utah. This physical place pretty well sums up where I have been spiritually, mentally, and — most of all — karmically for about a week and a half. My wallet was stolen at a club two weeks ago, precipitating a [...]

Friday Flash | Or, rather, a WIP

Here is my deafening scene from last week's prompt. Not a full Friday Flash story, but a scene, and a great exercise, nonetheless. This is up solely for feedback, so, please, tear it apart! not my scene. How's everybody doing tonight! The band was too big for the space, and the space was filled with [...]

Opening Our Hearts | My Mother and Death

Strength in the face of grief [This story was originally written for SevenPonds and may not be reused without permission.] In my twenty-five years, I have hardly experienced death. Not the truly devastating kind, really. I haven't seen violence or lost someone close to me by surprise or suffered through a long disease. In my life, in [...]

eBook Publishing | Choosing an eBook Publisher

There are probably hundreds of eBook publishers available to a self-publisher easily, from home, online. So, the decision to publish electronically inevitably leads to the question, "How do I find the right publisher?" This is an arm of publishing where the answers to that question are endless; you have simply to choose which one you like best. [...][image error]