Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Hi! I’ve been invited to guest-blog over at the QueryTracker blog, so every so often I may redirect my writing-related posts over to there. In fact, I’ll direct you over there today for my first guest-blog entry. (Forgive me, but…
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How Mom Writes A Novel, a drama in 5000 parts. Part 482: “Mom, can I watch TV?” {set up TV, sit at computer to type} Kevin and his partner were just finishing up when they got a call about a…
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I just wanted to share with you guys that The Boys Upstairs now has a cover. What do you think? I think it catches the spirit of the book. There’s also a promotional page for it over at MuseItUp. I’ve…
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After this post, I think I’m allowed to call myself a writer for real, rather than just someone who pretends to write. What do you think? 1) Always open your junk mail. I got a letter from Liguorian, which I…
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I’m sorry to report that the owner of Lilley Press, which was scheduled to publish my novella The Boys Upstairs as an ebook this Thanksgiving, has decided to close the press. I’m glad for the experience of working with their…
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And why writer’s block is a good, useful thing. Like any other symptom, its purpose is to tell the writer something is wrong. I’m defining writer’s block as a sudden loss of desire to write when the project was previously…
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My upcoming Christmas novella, The Boys Upstairs, will be an ebook but nevertheless have a cover. I’ve been contacted by the artist, who wanted me to do things like refine what I meant by “house.” (Because, as it turns out,…
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About two weeks ago, God kicked me off the forum where I spent the bulk of my internet time, and after I got done feeling tasty and stupid, I proceeded to keep living. I have my suspicions about why leaving…
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My editor for the Christmas novella wished me luck as I went through edit-hell. I’m not sure whether that means she’s reading here or whether she assumes all writers find editing to be hell. Someone on Twitter recently remarked that…
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I had to take a second literary pause from ♥My Book♥ because the publisher of my Christmas novella wanted pre-edits. The pre-edits took three or four days. The first day, I was able to write my thousand words for the day anyhow,…
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