Books… Quick Tip: Where’s that character from? 7 Jan 2014 Having just finished the first draft of Griefed, the third Lexy Cooper novel, I am avoiding the necessary revisions and subsequent hand-off to my editor by plotting a spin-off. Main…
Books Logo Design Contest 3 Jan 2014 This year I am taking on an awesome project that I'm super excited about: starting my own publishing company! What it needs is a logo. If you're a designer or…
Books 2013 Book Roundup: Love, hatred, indifference 1 Jan 2014 In 2013 I read one hundred and ten books starting with Ian Fleming's Thunderball and ending with Richelle Mead's Succubus Shadows. If you're interested, here is the full list of…
Books Free eBooks for Christmas 22 Dec 2013 I'm feeling pretty jolly, how about you? Let's see what Santa Trixie has in her...um...sack. First, thanks to Amazon Kindle's MatchBook program, now when you buy Schooled in paperback, you…
Writing Playing with fire: Naming characters after real people 19 Dec 2013 I'm not talking about using real people in fiction. We all do it, but we are at least smart enough to change the names and details enough to avoid lawsuits.…
Books… Why is this book taking so long to write? 3 Dec 2013 My first novel, The Sleepless Nanny, took nine months to write. It wasn't a long book, or particularly complex. I wrote it for one hour each night, most of the…
Assholes Hate everything? Take a social media time out. 21 Nov 2013 Look, Facebook annoys me sometimes too. And I once wrote a pretty bitchy post about the stuff that gets on my last nerve. But lately I'm seeing a lot of…
Writing Breadcrumbs: the art of leaving clues 15 Nov 2013 Writing is hard. Anyone will tell you that. Just sitting down and squeezing your brainthoughts onto a page via your fingers freaking HURTS. And I'm sure that non-fiction has its…
Books… Cover Art: The Christmas Edition 4 Oct 20135 Oct 2013 I know some of you are already bitching "There's Christmas shit next to the Halloween candy!" So let me further assault your eyes. You may know from a previous post…
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