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The Last Day Of The Year Is….
Read more: The Last Day Of The Year Is….The perfect day to begin something completely new and probably quite crazy 🙂 After a sleepless night filled with rambling thoughts and much too much coffee, I’ve made my decision. It’s time to start the process of self-publishing my book. I know I’ve made abundantly clear in previous posts my preference for taking the traditional route…
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If The Mayan Prophecy Is True…
Read more: If The Mayan Prophecy Is True…I predict the apocalypse will start with angry holiday shoppers. They’ll get sick of of standing in line. They’ll no longer have patience with other people. Before long, they’ll turn rabid and begin lunging at retail workers. The poor employees will only have one desperate method of self-defense: their bar-code scanners. There’s a problem…
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Something Inspirational
Read more: Something InspirationalSo a good friend of mine named Linda Costello came across an article written by Emma Straub, a blogger who recently published her first book entitled Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures. It turned out to be unexpectedly inspiring: On Being A Late Bloomer: Success Doesn’t Happen Overnight (I finally figured out how to do links!!…
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Denied.
Read more: Denied.So I finally heard back from the literary agent I’d pitched to in October. Here’s the gist: “Thank you for sharing LIGHT with me and I apologize for the length of time it has taken me to respond… While I really love the Victorian setting with the paranormal twist, I regret to say that I…
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… Andd I’m Alive Again
Read more: … Andd I’m Alive AgainSorry for the weeks of silence, but this whole NaNoWriMo thing has had me furiously consumed. Thankfully, I’ve just completed the 50,000-word requirement and am officially a Nano 2012 winner!! I got a cute little badge and everything 🙂 Sooo I’m pretty excited about this little achievement 🙂 And very happy to be getting back…
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Meet Ambrosius…
Read more: Meet Ambrosius…So I’ve talked about my first book a little bit but I’ve never posted bits of it on here. That’s going to change today. Below is the scene where the novel’s main character, 19th century English aristocrat Emma Collins, has her first… ahem… encounter… with this eccentric (possibly even insane?) man. He turns out to…
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Writing Ramblings
Read more: Writing RamblingsSo the other day I bought a few writer’s magazines from Barnes and Noble. The cashier, an older, gray-haired man with glasses, asked if I wrote fiction. I replied yes and that I was trying to get published. He looked me in the eye with the most worn, forlorn expression I’d seen in a long…
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Clearly I’m A Lifelong Paranormal Fiction Enthusiast
Read more: Clearly I’m A Lifelong Paranormal Fiction EnthusiastSo I discovered some old short stories I wrote when I was nine. One of them almost made me laugh out loud. Below is a snippet: “The stars in the sky were sparkling more than ever before. Sarah could see all the constellations perfectly (which was very hard to see from home). Chelsea looked at…
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