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The Life of a Writer

I listen to Jeff Goins’ podcast, “The Portfolio Life.” Jeff is a NYT bestselling author who writes about finding work that matters, but he also speaks specifically about what it looks like if that job happens to be as a writer—presumably because that’s what he knows. He created the title, “The Portfolio Life,” because there’s […]

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Cover Reveal: “The Eden Conspiracy”

I have my husband to thank for the idea for this one: the bombed-out cityscape at night, rendering the title obviously ironic… The same box from “The Liberty Box” cover in the sky, representative of the Control Centers in the Republic… I’m kind of in love with it!! My cover designer is still putting the […]

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Where Bright Ideas Come From

I can’t actually remember the original source, but I think it might have been the audiobook Smarter, Better, Faster by Charles Duhigg, which I’m listening to right now…  Anyway, whatever I was listening to made the interesting point that new ideas only tend to come about when certain preconditions are met: namely, the person involved […]

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Cover Re-brand: THE LIBERTY BOX

  Check it out!! I’m so pleased that my former cover artist agreed to re-make my first cover (at no charge!), using clip art still, but manipulating it enough that my cover is truly unique. I actually think I might like it a little better than the first one, partly because the human on the […]

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Updates on “The Liberty Box” Series!

This has been a big week for my “Liberty Box” series! It’s a Trilogy! First, last week I decided that it was going to be a trilogy, after all. Based on my outline, I thought I was going to finish the sequel this week, but then my characters decided to have a few interactions I […]

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“The Liberty Box” sequel: Almost here!

I’m about a week away from finishing the first draft of the sequel to “The Liberty Box”… I JUST decided it was going to be a trilogy after all, and not just two books. Mostly this was because that’s just where the plot trajectory took me. It’s kind of fun to ignore my outlines sometimes… […]

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Tucson Festival of Books: Tomorrow!!

Local fans! I’ll be at the Author Pavilion at the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday, March 12! It’s held on the U of A mall (and it’s HUGE, with speakers on all kinds of topics and lots of local authors and venders and fun stuff, so if you’ve never been you should totally come […]

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Shaking up the routine

You can’t beat Tucson for sunrises (and sunsets). This is the view from my living room window of the sunrise a few days ago, and the first thing I see on Mondays through Thursdays. I used to spend time in prayer and meditation, and then work out, and then write before I went in to […]

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So Good They Can’t Ignore You

I listen to audiobooks like a fiend. At the moment, I’m listening to “So Good They Can’t Ignore You,” by Cal Newport. It is FASCINATING, and so biblical, though I’m pretty sure the author doesn’t know it. I didn’t realize it in so many words either, until I started listening to it. I can summarize the […]

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College: Is It Useful Anymore?

This morning as I went running on the beautiful river walk near my new apartment (BEST way to see the sunrise!), I was listening to a podcast… as usual. This morning, it was Jeff Goins’ The Portfolio Life, and the episode was called, “The Wrong Reason to Go (Back) to College.” You should listen to […]

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