Books Win a Signed Pwned Paperback 9 Jan 20149 Jan 2014 Enter to win a copy of Pwned by writing a review (you've read it on your Kindle, right?) by January 31. Check out the details and rules here.
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…
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…
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… How to make a paperback 28 Aug 201329 Aug 2013 Ever since my first book released for Kindle, people have been asking for a printed version. A 'real' version. They don't have a Kindle, they just don't like ebooks, whatever.…
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… 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…
Books… Is “easy to read” a good thing? 16 Jul 201316 Jul 2013 First of all, let me say that I have no quarrel with anyone who reviews my books. I love that a) you read my work and b) you took the…
Books… A Deep Breath — Moving on to the Next Book 28 Jun 2013 I began writing the first Lexy Cooper crime novel Schooled on May 3 2012 and finished the first week of August. It came out on November 6. I started noodling…
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