Cancer… A Heart, a Mole, and a Limerick 10 Jun 201510 Jun 2015 It's been a sort of eventful (and yet not) couple of weeks. There have been a couple scares, some new side effects, a milestone, some experimentation, and a minor epiphany.…
Books… Finishing touches: Getting your novel in top condition 26 Jan 201526 Jan 2015 This post isn't about that final-final review when your manuscript has already gone through professional editing and proofreading. This is about getting your manuscript ready for the next step, whether…
Books… Series Fiction: What I wish I’d known at the start 9 Dec 2014 I'm in the final stretch of writing the fourth book in my Lexy Cooper mystery series. Now, I'm certainly nowhere near as prolific as many writers, but by the time…
Books… Course Correction – When a work-in-progress isn’t working 17 Jun 201417 Jun 2014 Last week I wrote a long post lamenting the shitty state of my new novel Summer Wind. If you want to read the whole boohoo thing it's here. The short…
Books… B.Y.O.P – Be Your Own Publisher 10 Mar 2014 I've been blogging about my trials and errors in this writing thing for a couple years now. From a post about discovering Kindle Direct Publishing and unearthing a long-lost novel,…
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…
Books… Casting the Novel: Herding Your Characters 13 Sep 2013 I always knew that at some point I would need to create some system for tracking characters in my Lexy Cooper series. I just didn't know it would happen this…
Books… Roswell or Bust! A reader-funded research trip 13 Aug 201314 Aug 2013 And now for an experiment in novel research and crowd funding! I've been to every location in the first two Lexy Cooper books Schooled and Pwned. Granted, they weren't all…
Books… Writer meets writing app, falls in love. Words flow. 6 Aug 2013 Friends, I want to tell you about the new love of my writing life. It may be old news to you, it may have been around a while. But to…
Books… Things my proofreader taught me 19 Jul 201319 Jul 2013 I'm a professional writer. By that I mean that since 1995 I have made my living--paid my rent, fed my offspring--by writing. You'd think I'd have words pretty much figured…
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