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We creatives have perfect lives. We get up in the morning and make ourselves a cup of French roast coffee, then sit down in our underwear and blissfully pound out 5,000 golden words in our next masterpiece. By that time it’s just past lunch so that we can get together with our other glamorous friends…
Today I’m sharing a snippet of something I’ve been working on. Enjoy! She looked at herself in the mirror and sighed. This was what she saw every morning when she woke up. Hair flying all over the place laced through with gray among the dark brown strands. Lines forming around her eyes, but she didn’t…
Once upon a time, I was searching for career representation, and breathlessly submitted my rollicking pirate adventure, Mad Kestrel, to a literary agent recommended by another writer friend. After a couple of weeks, the agent responded, saying that she couldn’t wrap her head around a pirate as a main character, because pirates were essentially bad…
Hey, nerds… It’s one of those long Mondays after a long weekend of not feeling great. Less than exciting things have been going on around me over the last couple of weeks. I kinda forgot that I was supposed to do a thing. Meaning this thing. Writing this post. As you can clearly see, I’m…
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Today’s article will focus on words. Yes, words. The spotlight will land on the value and impact of words. With the explosion of social media, it seems as if we, as a country, as human beings in the U.S. have lost the understanding of the true treasure of words. There’s a saying that when…
Years ago, I was an attending author at a convention appearing on a panel about writing romance novels. with several other very talented romance novelists. The discussion was great veering from how to write a sexy scene to how to get into self-publishing. When the Q&A portion of the panel came, one of the audience…
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Music is a key thing to get me into the mood for a book. Heck, I’ve even got so enamored on a song that I’ve concocted a whole story around just the one song. Once the book is written, I have nothing to do with that song or artist for a few months because I’ve…
When I first started writing with an eye toward publication, I made a mistake that many, many new writers make – I thought every motion my characters made needed to be spelled out. Every turn, every nod, every blink. My characters shrugged so often that I’m surprised none of them needed a massage to loosen…
Mornin’ y’all. Today we’re talking about the evolution of writing. I’ve been thinking a lot this week about what it means to be an author and the growing pains that come along with the journey. Each of us is our own ever-evolving ecosystem. A self-contained hero/villain combination with a flair for the dramatic that will…
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There’s no mistaken it. Things are pretty dark for those of us in the United States. Bleaker still for Black and Brown people. With the rise of prices, the rise of fascism, the rise of blatant hatred, to the death of our heroes to the seemingly endless names of state-sanctioned kidnappings of brown and Black…