Books… My book comes out tomorrow and I’m calm 20 Jun 2013 Tonight around 11 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time I will begin the brief process of uploading my crime novel Pwned to Kindle Direct Publishing. Within 12 hours (usually only an hour…
Books… The feedback a writer needs most 10 Jun 2013 There are some people who can never, in good conscience, review an author's books: the author herself of course, and anyone who worked on the actual text. In my case…
Books… Bad as I Wanna Be – Character or Heroine? 15 May 201315 May 2013 Lexy Cooper is the protagonist of my mystery series set in the videogame business. You'll notice I didn't use the word "heroine." There's a reason for that. She's not heroic.…
Writing The side-effects of being a mystery writer 22 Apr 2013 I write mystery novels. This is a fairly new occupation. I published the first book in the Lexy Cooper mystery series in November, the second is now in the process…
Books… Fear and the Novel — End Game Slowdown 31 Jan 2013 The last time I got to the end of my first draft of a novel, I cried. And moped for days. I'm hoping to avoid that this time around, but…
Writing Obsession, change, and superstition — tales from the sequel 19 Jan 2013 File this under More Bitching About Writing a Sequel. Over the summer I wrote a post about my writing rituals and the magic number of words I needed to…
Writing The Suckage of Sequels 13 Jan 2013 I'm about a third of the way into writing the second book of my Lexy Cooper Videogame Mystery series. And it's hard. Harder than I would have anticipated. Here's why:…
Books… Promoted Facebook Posts – An Experiment 4 Jan 2013 I decided to celebrate the new year by announcing the title, plot, and expected publication date for my next Lexy Cooper mystery. I created a Goodreads entry using a color…
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