Colleen M. Story writes imaginative fiction and is also a freelance writer specializing in health and wellness. Her first book, Rise of the Sidenah, was released by Jupiter Gardens Press in September 2015. Her next novel, Loreena’s Gift, is forthcoming…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Interview with Colleen Story
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Posted in Author Interviews
Posted in Author Interviews
Is Goodreads Good for You?
This is a reblog of Ellis Schuman’s excellent post on the topic. I, too, have been puzzled as to how to use goodreads as an author. Twitter, Facebook, blog–sure, I can see how all of those work into an overall…
Posted in Goodreads
Twitter: Getting Over the Two Thousand Follower Roadblock
You may or may not know this, but being able to follow over two thousand people on Twitter can be a pain. According to Twitter Support “… every user can follow 2000 people total. Once you’ve followed 2,000 users, there…
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Posted in Social Media, Twitter
Posted in Social Media, Twitter
Commas and Parenthetical Statements
* It’s time for another fascinating episode concerning the slippery little comma. There’s a good reason it’s the most misused punctuation in the English language. The rules are many and varied. Purdue says: “Use a pair of commas in the…
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Posted in Writing
Posted in Writing
Magic’s Stealing by Stephanie Flint
Magic’s Stealing has an interesting premise: that all magic is in the form of ribbons, and these can be seen by adepts as they manipulate them. The story focuses on Toranih, a young woman who has always scorned magic, in…
Normalish by Margaret C. Lesh
I consider this is a solid five-star read. Normalish is a YA contemporary that covers a girl’s freshman year of high school. Margaret Lesh does an excellent job of recapturing the uncertainty, the rapidly shifting relationships, and the uncomfortable, defensive…
Christmas Yet to Come by Marian Perrera
I enjoyed Christmas Yet to Come, a novella coming in the fall of 2015 by Marian Perrera. I give it a solid four stars. Ms. Perrera develops that most inscrutable character by Dickens—the third ghost who visits Scrooge. Although it…
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