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October 21, 2012
whY (A) write’s Craig Schmidt’s blog-interview
YA writer Craig Schmidt, blogger atwhyawrite.wordpress.com,posted questions for several writing blogs, including my own!So without further ado, here’s our blog-interview. What issomething youregret? (no need to get too personal) While I was in the bath, I thought of the perfect answer for this question. It is, after all, the very first question, and it deserves [...]
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October 19, 2012
Learn to dance THRILLER with us!
“Because it’s Thriller! Thriller night….” My day job is in behavior. My hobby is in geekdom. Sometimes these worlds collide and I get peanut butter in my chocolate, and it’s awesome. It’s happening this fall and winter, too. Every year, my sister and I teach a popular How to Dance Thriller workshop at Gen Con, [...]
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October 18, 2012
Music & the Writer
Lots of writers use music to set mood and evoke emotion while writing, and I’m no exception — I love using music to create a tone for a scene or even just to get creative juices flowing. Some authors have gone so far as to release playlists, identifying songs for each scene. I don’t generally [...]
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October 9, 2012
Book Covers & Badasses
Today Rob Thurman released the new Cal Leandros cover. She is rightfully excited about it. And there’s a lot to be excited about: the flying glass, the hair sweep, the handcuffs, the blood, the composition and movement, the gun…. No, not the gun. The gun’s what jarred me out of the cover’s mood when I [...]
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October 7, 2012
Site Renovation :)
As you might have noticed, the site just got a major facelift. I think everything’s working, but if you notice anything out of place, please let me know. In related news, the blog is now on Networked Blogs, so feel free to follow if that’s your thing. In unrelated news, some cool stuff should be [...]
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“Should Have” and “Would Have”
I happened across a great tweet the other day, about plot and character: This tweet in particular caught my eye, because it related so nearly to a conversation I’d been having with a couple of friends. Lots of characters make decisions we wouldn’t make. Sometimes admire them for it (a hero bravely sacrifices to save [...]
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September 24, 2012
It Doesn’t Have To Be Hard
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September 23, 2012
Your Sample Should Include a Sample.
Okay, I am pretty equal-opportunity when it comes to paper books and ebooks. I have minor preferences — I like paper books for plane trips (no obligatory power-down!) and ebooks for reference material (I have no guilt highlighting and annotating a ebook, while defacing a paper book even in the name of education feels wrong) [...]
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September 21, 2012
Amazon Deals on KITSUNE-TSUKI
Retail news! Not only is Kitsune-Tsuki now available in paperback (say, here, for example), but it’s eligible for Amazon’s 4-for-3 promotion — which means if you add Kitsune-Tsuki to an order of three books, you get it free. Of course, it’s in ebook at Amazon, too, and at Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords, and pretty [...]
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September 17, 2012
Laura’s Coming to Wisconsin! 2-Day Clicker Workshop
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