“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 […]
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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
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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 »
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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A Symphony of Cicadas is FREE for Kindle owners – but only till April 3rd. So hurry and download yours for free! http://amzn.to/ZwhBLZ So in efforts to get my unknown name out there amongst the massive amounts of books at Amazon, I have taken advantage of a program called KDP Select. This is an exclusive
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I went for a run* tonight, and this is what I got to hear: *Side note: “Run” is a very loose term for what I did. But because “moving up and down while putting one foot in front of another at a slightly faster pace than walking” is too long, we’ll just go with “run”.
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With only days until A Symphony of Cicadas is released, I am both on pins and needles that it’s so close, and totally tapping my fingers that it’s not here yet. Would time please hurry up and slow down!!! So to pass the time, I thought I’d share a little bit of the book and
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Hello, my name is Crissi and I’m an adverbaholic. And I didn’t even know until my editor pointed this out to me. For those of you who don’t know, an adverb is anything used to describe an action word. If it ends in “ly”, it is likely an adverb. It’s not just limited to “ly”
Hello, my name is Crissi and I’m an adverbaholic. Read More »