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September 22, 2025
Stop Quoting Beyoncé in Your Book (Unless You’re Prepared to Pay Her Lawyers)
For reasons that remain a mystery to me—perhaps buried somewhere between karaoke and heartbreak—roughly 65% of the manuscripts I see come sprinkled with someone else’s song lyrics. I get it. Lyrics pack an emotional punch. They anchor us to an era, sketch a character’s mood, and set a scene with a single line. Unfortunately, they […]
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Can You Write a Book With AI?
The quick answer? Yes, darling, of course you can.The better answer? Wrong question. The real question is: “Should I use AI to write my book?”And the answer to that is a royal shrug: It depends. What Exactly Are You Writing, My Dear? If you’re whipping up a pamphlet—something breezy to hand out to clients, like […]
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Why Write a Book?
Nonfiction book, that is. Darling, let’s cut to the chase: you don’t write a book because you fancy becoming the next Dickens, Hemingway, or that girl who wrote Twilight in her downtime. No, you write a book because it’s the single most dazzling, gloriously impractical-yet-practical move you can make for your business, reputation, and legacy. […]
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March 20, 2023
On Writing: Jennette McCurdy and Author Voice
(For the my review of I’m Glad My Mom Died, click here.) In my review, I mentioned that one of the things I loved about this book is the way McCurdy manipulated the language to be reflective of the age she was writing about while maintaining her personal voice throughout. When talking about the “voice” […]
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I’m Glad My Mom Died (review)
book by Jennette McCurdy Genre: Scale: For Fans of What is it about? Caveat: I live under a pop-culture rock. I had no idea who Jennette McCurdy was prior to reading her book. I had never seen any of the TV shows she was on and never heard her music. And I’m kind of glad […]
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June 21, 2019
Virgin Island Creole English
Virgin Islands Creole English
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St. Thomas Photos (Before Maria)
Photos of St. Thomas, USVI, from the scenes in Revenge Cafe.
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November 9, 2015
Combating Negative Self-Talk, part 1
In my last post, I put forth a rallying cry to encourage us all to stop the negative self-talk. I had also promised to offer techniques to make that an
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October 27, 2015
Who’s talking smack to whom? The first step to combat negative self-talk
We’re not doing so good, peeps. Remember when I first started the blog on this site? ‘Member when I mentioned that at least 1 in 4 women were taking antidepressants?
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Who’s talking smack to whom?
We’re not doing so good, peeps. Remember when I first started the blog on this site? ‘Member when I mentioned …
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