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writing process blog hop…
Robert Mullin, author of the speculative fiction/fantasy Bid the Gods Arise, invited me to participate in this blog hop several weeks ago. I got a bit side-tracked publishing my current novel, so forgive my coming late to this party. Participants in this blog hop are asked to answer four questions about our writing process. So here goes……
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3, 2, 1…lift-off!
I am thrilled to share this news with you! Now available in print & online via Amazon & Amazon (UK)& other Amazon sites worldwide, and on Nook.
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book cover reveal – Battle Scars I: Men of the Cross
I am thrilled to show off the cover design for my upcoming novel! Many thank to Travis at probookcovers.com for this superb design. He is a pleasure to work with, willing to listen and to offer his expert advice. Release Date: TBA Follow me here and watch for additional teasers in the next few weeks.
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work in progress Wednesday… The End
Title: Battle Scars: For King and Country(book 2 of a series)Word count: @109,780 words It is done.THE END. Time to rest, but only for a few days. I’ll start revisions to Book 1 this weekend. I haven’t looked at Men of the Cross since mid-August, except to share the opening with my MOOC classmates in Plagues, Witches,…
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and the elevator door closes…
Writer Matthew Harffy is ahead of me. On his blog, Bernicia Chronicles, he writes that he’s completed revisions on his Dark Ages novel and has sent it out out for another round of beta readers. His decision to do a ‘pitch’ at a conference inspired me to start thinking about how I might pitch Battle…
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almost there… work in progress Wednesday
Title: Battle Scars: For King and Country(book 2 of a series)Current word count: @96,500 words The writing of the most recent 8,000 words has been like pulling teeth. I want them to be good – well, I want the whole book to be good – but as I close in on the climax, my goal…
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work in progress Wednesday – and we’re off to Nottingham!
Well, Nottingham and a few other locales… If I’d been on top of things a few days back, I would have mentioned that 7 September was the anniversary of the Battle of Arsuf in 1191. This was a huge victory for Richard the Lionheart. Arsuf is about 14 miles from the port of Jaffa, a…
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if Shakespeare was alive… would he be pulling weeds?
The weeds are beginning to look like trees in my yard. And I had such plans for the backyard. Row after row of day lilies. Flowers blooming from spring through the fall. Or this as my backyard. There were times when the yard looked good…about 6 years ago. Then the heat did me in.…