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New Opportunities —and Challenges— For Self-Published Authors

I’m a pretty optimistic person, I guess. I didn’t used to be years ago, but these days I tend to lean towards the “anything is possible” side of things. Keep plugging away. Don’t give up, because all hard work leads to profit… eventually. I can’t actually ever think of a time that this philosophy hasn’t […]

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Now on Audible: The Eden Conspiracy!

BUY IT NOW: I am happy to announce the release of “The Eden Conspiracy” on Audible! It was read by the talented Melissa Williams, the same voice of “The Liberty Box.” She wrote me this week to ask my schedule for the release of “The Potentate” so that she could make sure she was available to […]

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Level Up Your Life

I am totally into “Level Up Your Life” by Steve Kamb right now. Here’s the premise: a former gamer dissected the psychology of what makes video games so addictive (the dopamine hit from gaining points and new skills, defeating the big boss at the end of each level and progressing to the next level) and […]

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Ireland Travel Blog

This time last week, Frank and I were flying back from Dublin. We were there for 15 days, and except for the first two nights, we were in a different city every week! For the first week or so, I was quite diligent about taking notes on everything I saw that might be useful for […]

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Power and Dictatorships

I’d intended to pause on writing Book 3 of “The Liberty Box” trilogy and dash out Voltolini’s novella first… probably because I saw that was how Kiera Cass did it with her Selection series. (I never read the novellas, but I saw that she came out with one on her main character America’s former boyfriend, […]

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EMF and the Liberty Box Control Centers

In my other life, I’m a naturopathic doctor, and this week I was researching EMF (electromagnetic frequencies) to find out whether there was any science behind their supposedly detrimental effects on the human body. This got me thinking about the world of “The Liberty Box,” and the control center signals—which, of course, are electromagnetic frequencies. […]

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Ireland!!! (and what’s hot now)

I love the flexibility of being a self-published author. But as I chatted (via email) with successful YA Horror novelist Gretchen McNeil, she kind of convinced me that I should try to go traditional the next time around. As some of you may know, I did actually get a traditional publishing contract with a small […]

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Inside the Mind of a Villain

After reading “The Eden Conspiracy,” one of my street team members said to me, “I really want to see more of Ben Voltolini! Can you write a novella of his back story?” Now, my husband had told me from the beginning of “The Liberty Box” that Voltolini was the most interesting character, so I’d purposely […]

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Inside a Book Release

A few weeks ago, I joined Instagram (follow me here!) at the suggestion of my marketing manager, Caitlin Bauer of Royal Social Media. I actually joined a long time ago under my real name, but I almost never posted anything… I suppose because I didn’t have the proper motivation. But Caitlin introduced me to the […]

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