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The Dictatorship Has Begun!

by on January 6, 2015 in Brain Candy, Write to Live, Live to Write

Happy New Year, cats and kittens. This is a big one for me. My first print novel has officially hit the shelves! Dictatorship of the Dress is a new twist on boy-meets-girl. Told in first person, alternating points of view, it follows two travelers over the span of five days. It’s a story of missed […]

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L is for… Louder than Love: Writing a Rock Hero

by on April 13, 2013 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

OK, maybe this post doesn’t fit perfectly in with my Music-Fan connection theme, but I was stumped for ‘L’  today. Louder than Love, my debut novel due out in September, got me thinking about the old adage ‘write what you know’. Musicians – like actors and athletes – have long been frowned upon as ‘romantic […]

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S is for…Sun Kink

by on April 21, 2012 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

SUN KINK: a buckling due to high temperature, causing the track to shift laterally and form a curve in what is otherwise a straight pair of rails. Such conditions can cause a train derailment. Probably a term you don’t hear every day. It’s currently the name of my first novel. I look at those 300 […]

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What Writers KNOW

by on April 12, 2012 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write

In writing, there is that oft-uttered phrase “Write what you know”.  Many fiction writers start out in the cozy comfort zone of doing just that; looking within themselves and their body of experience to create compelling, realistic material. I think back to my teen years, banging out stories on my parents’ old Underwood typewriter. I […]

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Friday Fact or Fiction Fun!

by on April 6, 2012 in Blogging from A to Z Challenge

For “F”, I figured we could have a little fun. Some of you know me well, others not at all. But here are five fun flights o’ fancy for you to figure out: fact or fiction? First follower to get ’em all right by 5pm EST gets something fabulous! CONTEST OVER! FACT OR FICTION: 1. […]

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