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February 12, 2016
“The Power of Habit”
The Power of Habit I’m listening to this on audiobook right now by Charles Duhigg, and it’s fascinating. What is it that motivates people to change? In a nutshell, there are three components to a habit: the cue, the behavior itself, and the reward. It’s not possible to erase a habit any more than it’s […]
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February 5, 2016
Happy Ever Afters
So I got married two weeks ago. In Costa Rica. (!!!) My incredible wedding photographer-slash-good friends (a married couple) took this photo. They came over last night to hang out and show us the slideshow. After the wedding, we went to Nicaragua, and on a jungle river cruise (where we saw 30-40 crocodiles). We hiked […]
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January 15, 2016
New Beginnings!
It’s been a crazy few weeks… My fiancé and I are moving into a new apartment, and even though I’ve moved between cities before, I think this might be the most challenging move I’ve ever done. Largely this is because we’re getting entirely new furniture (most of which has required either delivery or assembly), but […]
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January 8, 2016
The Best Laid Plans…
So in between working on the sequel to “The Liberty Box” (which doesn’t yet have a name)… oh, and planning a wedding (getting married in two weeks!!) and moving into a new place this weekend, I was supposed to release a book under my real name on naturopathic medicine. I thought this would be no […]
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December 18, 2015
What Star Wars and Harry Potter Have in Common
When I was about 23 (give or take a year), I thought I’d made a discovery that NOBODY ELSE in the ENTIRE WORLD had ever noticed before: Most stories follow a clear mythic pattern. There are archetypes (the hero, the mentor, the buddies, the main bad guy, the lesser bad guys), and a trajectory (hero […]
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December 11, 2015
Copyright Laws and Internet Trolls
So I wrote here on ways to increase the rank of a website on Google via SEO… one of the strategies was using images with each blog post. Where did I get these images? Straight off of a Google Images search. When I downloaded them, I saw the little “images may be subject to copyright” notice, […]
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December 4, 2015
Kindle Unlimited: Bad for Indie Authors?
For months now, I’ve complained that my book sales have dropped off precipitously since the rollout of Kindle Unlimited—a subscription-based service in which Amazon will deliver unlimited e-books to subscribers for $9.99 per month. Apparently the Big Five publishers do not have books on the subscription plan, because enrollment requires an exclusive contract with Amazon. […]
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November 17, 2015
Release Day Blast for “Finish Him” by Deanna Dee
Happy to help out a fellow self-published author! “Finish Him” is on sale TODAY! Buy links below. Sonya Black never expected a petty sibling quarrel could lead to her sister being drugged. Overcome with guilt, Sonya vows to bring the jerk to justice. When she dives into her own investigation, she lands belly up in […]
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November 13, 2015
Casting “The Liberty Box”
This week I finished revising my outline for the sequel to “The Liberty Box” (had to keep going back through and adjusting as I learned more about cyberterrorism, actually), and starting writing this (if I do say so myself) GREAT scene between Jackson and Kate in which he’s teaching her how to train her mind […]
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November 6, 2015
Researching “The Liberty Box”: The Vaccinia Vector
As with the “Piercing the Veil” trilogy, I’ve done a lot of research for “The Liberty Box” series. Some of it made it into the book, and quite a lot of it did not (in fact a good bit fell by the wayside a few versions of the book ago). From May 2014 through about […]
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