The Last First Wednesday 2018!
Another year of First Wednesdays has happened. It’s time to wrap up 2018 and prepare for the new year. So let’s do it right.
Challenge yourself to visit ten new blogs on the IWSG list this month.
Encourage those bloggers to do the same.
Join the December WEP.
Get ready for the #IWSGPit in January.
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What are five objects we’d find in your writing space?
The question is always optional.
The awesome co-hosts for the December 5 posting of the IWSG are J.H. Moncrieff, Tonja Drecker , Patsy Collins, and Chrys Fey!
There’s usually something to drink while I’m writing. Depending on the time of day it’s water, coffee (cappucino), mint tea, wine. That kind of sums up about eight hours of imbibing and working at my desk. Noise silencers like those airline give to their employees on the tarmac have become a regular feature since my closest neighbor has purchased a leaf blower with an obnoxious noise and likes her driveway pristine–impossible in a forest, I might add, so she blows a lot. Because it’s usually very quiet where I live, this blower sounds even louder. Outside of those items, it’s just me, my keyboard and the monitor. An essential writing trinity.
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It’s time to sign up for the December WEP, and the 2019 WEP Themes are up for you to see. They are wonderful and Olga Godim’s badges are beautiful. Be sure to visit and see all of them. And did you read the winning October WEP?
We have two other winners to announce as well. Tryrean Martinson’s entry called Footprints won our theme contest here at Camp IWSG. Congrats, Tyrean. And Toi Thomas won the February WEP theme challenge with 28 Days. She’ll appear in the next IWSG Newsletter!
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On my homefront I have a few interesting things happening.
The covers on COVER WARS link to Amazon (affiliate links)
SIGN OF THE GREEN DRAGON’s cover is up for a vote in Masquerade Crew’s COVER WARS. I’d love it if you’d give me your vote. You can vote once a day. (Scroll to second page to find the voting option.)
All of my middle grade books are now comfortably tucked in on the shelves of Riverhouse Books in Carmel. Monterey County boasts several Indie Bookstores, and each is a treasure.
My second reader/editor gave my latest YA a lot of help, and I’m digging into the edits between the holidays. I still have no title, and one doesn’t seem imminent.
My Email Connect is featuring Jemi Fraser this month.
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