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December 13, 2020
#TheTwelveDaysOfChristmas: The Ebook Edition
Remember The Twelve Days of Christmas? The serialized Christmas story I posted last year, starting Christmas Day?
It all started with a partridge in a pear tree
Macs boyfried goes missing on Christmas Eve, right around the time some unearthly beautiful people turn up in town. Will she be able to find Tom in time before the Twelve Days of Christmas are up?
Well, good news: its now available in book form! Thats right, you can get the ebook on Amazon (Kindle) or Smashwords (in whatever ebook...
December 10, 2020
Reviews: What’s the big deal?
An excellent post by the excellent E. L. Bates on why book reviews matter. Bonus: easy templates to help you write that review.
Around this time of year, you will often see posts on social media saying something like, give an author the best gift imaginable: leave a review for their book! As an author, I agree whole-heartedly with such posts. I got to thinking the other day, though: if I werent an author myself, would I understand just why reviews are so important? And I...
November 26, 2020
#ThrowbackThursday: Sock Puppetry, or: Showing Off and Hiding Out
I just ran across this post on my old blog, from September 2012. And it’s not a bad post, worth rereading. So here it is.
Sock Puppetry, or: Showing Off and Hiding Out
There’s this lovely term floating around the internet: sock puppetry. In case you haven’t run across it, it’s when people build themselves fake identities in order to make themselves (in their regular identity) look good. Say, for example, if I created multiple google accounts for myself, and then posted admiring responses to m...
November 25, 2020
November 19, 2020
The Scent of Hygge
A cinnamon stick and a few cloves in water on a potpourri burner. Simmer all day. Usually I don’t start doing that until December, but this year winter hit so early, there was nothing else for it: the scent of hygge to banish November gloom.
November 11, 2020
October 26, 2020
WIND
WIND
Sighing
Soughing
Shrieking
Crying
Gusting
Ripping
Tearing
Bending
Buffeting
Pummeling
Ruining
Flattening
Cooling
Caressing
Stroking
Soothing
Embracing
Lifting
Soaring
Bearing
Clearing
Cleansing
Calming
Power.
February 2020
Image by Lynette Stebner, Poem (written on the painting) by A.M.Offenwanger
Acrylic, Canvas and Ink on Deep Exhibition Cradle Board | 18 x 24″
Available for sale by contacting Lynette @ https://lynettestebner.com/
October 21, 2020
October 7, 2020
September 16, 2020
#WordlessWednesday: Tübingen
Tübingen Market Place, August 2019
