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Fan Friday—It All Started at the Beginning

When I was little, like three, four years old, I decided I wanted to write books. I took tiny pieces of paper, Scotch-taped them together, and “wrote stories.” My grandma thought it was cute. When I was about eight years old, I saw a TV commercial for Gone With the Wind—it was coming to theaters […]

Writer Wednesday—Typos versus Errors

A typo is when you hit the wrong key—hence the word “typo,” short for “typographical error.” It could even be because you—one time—typed the wrong word in a manuscript, such as “to” for “too.” It happens. When it comes to social media, though, I expect the writer to make that correction as soon as possible. […]

Prep Monday—The Waiting Game

We made some decisions this past weekend: First, there are way too many properties for sale to possibly look at them all. Second, we could certainly make the barn property work. And third, with so much work to do, regardless of the property we choose, we really need to get moving on it. And, well, […]

Writer Wednesday—What Works, What Doesn’t

When it comes to sales, authors are always trying new things; sometimes there is success, sometimes not. Often, you can do the same thing and it works once, but not again. Let me explain: a year or so ago, several times, I’ve had “free” book offers on Amazon Kindle. I know people who have had […]

Prep Tuesday—What We’ve Found

This weekend, we went back to look at the “barn property.” You have to understand something: where we’re looking for land is covered with county roads, CRs, and they all have numbers. And you know how well I work with numbers! So we could call them CR-124 or CR-131 or whatever, and we’d be, literally, […]

Prep Monday—What Would You Do?

Let’s say you find some land and you’re ready to move out and on to self-sufficiency and full-time preparedness. Where do you start? What do you hope to accomplish? Now, I realize not everyone can do this—there money and time and ability involved. But let’s say all of this is covered; what do you do […]

Writer Wednesday—Radio

Say THAT three times fast—I dare ya! My first radio gig was back in the ‘70s. I was “caller number” whatever and had to sing the Big Mac song. Scored a Big Mac, too. Awesome, right? My second one was this morning. At 6:00. Yawn. See, I’ve been plugging . . . er, promoting . […]

Prep Tuesday—That Elusive Property Search

We haven’t had a lot of time lately to look for land, what with work schedules and school times, but on our last little adventure, I swear I heard banjos . . . and saw a still. Why is it that places with the most “beware of dog,” “keep out,” and “no trespassing” signs are […]

Prep Monday—Holidays

We all have a lot of stuff, some more than others. How much of it is useful? How much is simply a “wanna have?” How do you decide and what do you do about it? Since we’re downsizing, with less than 18 months to go until the Big Move out into the boonies, we’re trying […]

Reduced—The Series

I seldom blog about my own books—I don’t know why, it just doesn’t happen. Maybe because they’re all listed on the sidebar here . . . Well, today, I am! REDUCED: FREE on Kindle this week! A devastating biological agent is about to be released, to be tested in remote areas. Rumor has it, […]