It was Aunt Rose who encouraged me to balance on top of the playground equipment blocks from her house, cheering me on as I shuffled with fear on the tiny beam that stood eight feet above the sand, and applauding when I was successful in making it to the other end. She let me roller […]
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So, you’ve just put all your blood, sweat, and tears, as well as all your time and money, into a published book you now hold in your hands. And you’ve been practically selling your soul to try and sell the dang thing. You’ve already managed to get all your friends and family to buy, and
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“If you’ve FINISHED writing a novel you are amongst the elite!!! You ARE NOT A FAILURE IF YOU CANNOT LIVE OFF YOUR BOOKS. You only fail by NOT TRYING.” – Nadia Cornier I needed to read that quote today. If you’re a struggling author of your own book, I bet you needed to read that
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“Joey!” I called out. The word hung in front of me, trembling in the air but traveling no further than the space around me. “Joey!” I tried again, only to have my voice swallowed by the thick atmosphere surrounding my presence. I took a deep breath and screamed his name once more, using all of
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“Mom, watch out!” he cried, the terror in his voice breaking the moment without warning. I jerked my head forward as a semi-truck straddled the yellow line on the windy road, coming straight at us. With no shoulder on the road, there wasn’t anywhere to pull over on my right. Instead, the right hand side
When nightmares become books Read More »
My friend and colleague, Robert Digitale, is not only an excellent journalist, but he is also a man who appreciates a good story. He is the author of Horse Stalker, has headed up several multi-authored collaborations between both novelists and journalists, and keeps a blog with our local newspaper named Digitale Stories, dedicated entirely to
Digitale Stories shared a huge excerpt from my book! Read More »
We didn’t hear the first knock on the door. But the second knock was unmistakable, vibrating the pictures that hung on the wall. “I know you’re awake,” the muffled voice called from the hallway. “I’m trying to sleep, and between your racket and Joey talking in his headset, it’s kind of hard.” John groaned in
Kids – the ultimate romance blockers Read More »
Today for my day job at the newspaper, I got to write about indie writers. I’m pretty proud of this article, and love the authors I got to interview for it. You can read it here: http://bit.ly/10WDg2M What I love most about it is that it shows that success really is possible, but also tells
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I’m sick as a dog today. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good, because I get to stay in my jammies all day long, blog and write to my heart’s content, watch a little TV, and take a nap if I want to. Those are always key ingredients to a
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It’s nearing the end of my 2nd day of my Kindle promotion for A Symphony of Cicadas. This morning, I watched as the numbers barely moved at all. It reached 100 downloads, and I wondered what the heck I could be doing wrong. So I toyed with the genre, classifying it as Women’s Literature (basically,
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