A Week in the Life of a Self-Published Author
I may be a full-time writer, but that doesn’t mean I can write full time. Here’s an overview of some of the stuff I had to do this week to keep my writing career going.
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Month: June 2023
Crafting Better Sentences: My Top Five Tips
Words are the building blocks of language and the means by which humans express their thoughts and feelings. Expressing thoughts and feelings is what writers do. We search for the perfect word in every situation, and we try to be precise. Words all by themselves conjure up images and emotions. But to move a book along, those words must be strung together into sentences that mean something. Does it matter how we string those words together? Yes, it does.
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What’s in a Name?
A. A. Milne, J. K. Rowling, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, E. B. White, C. S.[…]
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My Trip to England
Just got home from a green and pleasant land. So much stuff to see!
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THRILLERFEST 2023
THRILLERFEST 2023 New York City, New York A neighbor recently asked me exactly what I did at these conferences I go to.[…]
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An Interview with Holly West, editor of KILLIN’ TIME IN SAN DIEGO
A warm welcome to Killin’ Time in San Diego’s editor, Holly West, who shares with us a little of how an anthology is made. Killin’ Time in San Diego features twenty of today’s best crime and mystery writers and is published in conjunction with Bouchercon 2023.
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And Yet We Write
An article in today’s New York Times, quoted the actress Glenda Jackson about how she felt performing before a live[…]
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COME WRITE WITH ME! Giveaway
Win a copy of GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Here’s how GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, my suspense novel being released on[…]
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I’ve Seen the Future
And I Can’t Wait to Get My Hands On It If you’re a geek and an Apple fan like me,[…]
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