Category: Books
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Today’s an extra special day. I’ve reset my body clock be completely backwards! I could have posted this blog live at 8 a.m. instead of using the schedule function but that would be the actions of woman still within shouting distance of sanity. Also – the “In The Absence of Famine” book cover is done!
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To Deadline Or Not To Deadline
Every year as I scramble, desperately trying to pull a book together in time to release on my birthday, as the time grows shorter and shorter and I find myself having to drop this marketing scheme or that cover design because there simply isn’t time for it all; every, single, year – I wonder if…
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Holy Holiday 99 Cent Ebooks Batman!
The holidays have me surrounded. I’m losing sleep trying to figure out newsletter software, how to become a marketing genius in 3 days or less, and my family is calling constantly because they’re feeling neglected and lonely (which is only right since I forgot all about them… sometime in September) all while I try to…
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When To Pay, When Not To Pay: Self Publishing Edition
It’s the middle of the busiest month of the year for me, and probably billions of other people worldwide; I’ve got holidays all month long and a book I’m frantically editing so I can make my traditional birthday release date. Six months later than I promised this time – but it’s going out the door…
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Hitting The Ceiling
Well another NaNoWriMo is done and I got through it, by the skin of my feverish teeth, yet again. After that I needed a little time to recover (I’d managed to catch a cold on top of a recurring illness and then just when I thought I was done with them both – I got…
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Eviserate – What A Lovely Word…
I love crafting a story, watching it take greater and greater shape as I add layer upon layer. Nothing wasted, nothing in excess, just ever greater and more vital layers. In my minds eye it’s like crafting a body.
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It’s ALIVE
Whoohoo, I’m healthy again! I swear seems like I spend more time sick than I do anything else. This time it means I’m starting NaNoWriMo with a 10k handicap – oh whoa is me. I guess that means I’ll have to write like a mad woman to catch up in a hurry. So despite finally…
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Book Review: William Strunk Jr. &E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style”
So I’ve realized that there’s a pretty big desire amongst my readers for more reviews of skill books. I’ve got quite a few of these books on the shelves, some I’ve read from cover to cover over and over again, some led me down a bad path and a very, very few have been both…
Blargle Splect: Writerly Musings & Blather 