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Merry Christmas

Just a quick post to wish everyone out in cyber-land a wonderful Christmas. The northern California foothills are beautiful this time of year. The Sierra Nevadas are capped in white again, and the grass has recovered from its summer drought

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Rejection Letters

Even though rejection can hurt, it’s part of writing. No matter who you are or how hard you slaved over your work, not everyone will like your book. You can polish your words until they sparkle, and somebody will still

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Counting Blessings

Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday for us. We don’t do much in the way of trimmings–turkey, decorating the house, etc. We’ve spent Thanksgiving in a cabover camper eating pizza and cookie dough before. This year I’ll be spending it in

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Query for Hans and Greta

Since I’ve recently posted about querying, I thought some of you might be interested in the actual query I sent. I had a lot of help with this, by the way. It took 250 posts total on the online subforum

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Two Publications in August!

My story this week is good news–a worthy topic by itself. And I do have a story for you to read. You just have to go to Fantasia Divinity to check it out. August is shaping up to be an

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Blog Birthday

“Happy birthday to me,” sings the blog. *toots party horn* My blog is a year old, and it seems like a good time to reflect and discuss a course for the future. I’ve met a lot of blog goals in

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3 Ways To Show A Text Conversation In A Book – And One Right Way

This is an excellent post by Dan Alatorre on adding texting as dialogue material to your stories. His take on form made a great deal of sense to me, so I thought I’d share it here.

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Are You Filtering Your Writing?

Originally posted on Allison Maruska:
Today’s post comes courtesy of the lovely and talented Cathleen Townsend, who offers some insight into what she sees when she wears her critique-ing hat. Take it away, Cathleen! ***** Allison suggested a guest post…

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One Line Wednesday Reflections

I joined in One Line Wednesday on Twitter for the first time in quite a while last week. But perhaps because of the break, I was really struck by the value of it. Not so much for the marketing value,

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Punctuation Matters

A quick chuckle for your viewing pleasure. The original post is here: http://www.scoopwhoop.com/humor/grammar-nerds-zindabad/.

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