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Online winter book fair… register to win!
Black Lilac Kitty Literary Services is hosting a book fair, March 1 – 3. Visit their website and download a catalog filled with books from participating authors, including yours truly. 🙂 There are children’s books, fiction and non-fiction. Check out the books and visit the authors’ website. Register for a giveaway, too – Amazon &…
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All we want is Family Peace
Huge announcement! Keeping the Family Peaceis now available at Amazon! I really hate the hard sell, so I won’t beat you over the head with it. It’s there. It was a lot of work, a fantastic journey with many friends – including my Thursday night writers group – encouraging me along the way. I’d love to…
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Keeping the Family Peace tidbits
I bet you’ve forgotten that Keeping the Family Peace still occupies a corner of my mind. Why would you remember? Lately, all I’ve talked about is Star Wars or the Third Crusade. We could just pretend that you’re on pins & needles waiting for my debut novel. How cool! How about a little teaser? Some…
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Thursday’s Walk on the blog side…
This must be the week for posts on historical fiction research & writing! I was working on one of my own for next week when all these great links appeared in my feed reader: Shannon Lawrence talks about doing it right. She mentions an author who hadn’t done her research and another who IS doing…
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E- and Print, That is the Question…
Dean Wesley Smith asks indie self-publishers to think about publishing their works in print. He reminds us that we’re ignoring 65-70% of the market (see shot #9), and has a cool graphic showing trends in book reading & buying. Hey – I’m the first to admit that I love the feel and smell of a…
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The book blurb
How do you distill a 93,000 word manuscript down to 2 paragraphs? While my novel is off in beta hands, I’ve been writing, editing, scrapping, and re-writing my book blurb, or as it’s called on Amazon, the “product description”. That’s not very romantic, is it? If I was buying a blender or a new laptop,…