That feels better.
I took the briefest detour from cataloguing the multitude of voices in that village of wily people to revisit Nikki and Rebecca some more, and let me just tell you: I feel so much better. I love...
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A young woman named Helen from 1910s MA walked up to me a few days ago and asked me to finally tell her story — one about romances, and doctors, and broken hearts, and plenty of small-town gossip. I...
View ArticleAccomplished, but overheating
That young woman who wanted her romance written? Oh, she got it. Over 5,000 words of it. And now, I’m sweating like a pig from being cooped up in my room all day working on it. What’s the humidity...
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Means I got my witches talking, and I can work with some familiar faces again. There’s a couple in a story I’m calling Soulmates who’re scared to death that they’re…well, not soulmates. In their world,...
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Finally got another collection up. (That makes three now: Hiding in the Corners; Love, Lust, and Pixie Dust; and In Deep Waters.) Working on getting the next three projects finalized, and then onto the...
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Finally back, finally home, finally in the final stretch of publishing the last of the ten books I wanted to get out this year. Looks like the village of wily people is now called Once Upon a Spell,...
View ArticleUpgrading, at last.
The Almost Human series is getting a new face. First of all, here’s the new cover for book 1: Here’s the face of the short (previously Night Shift): I’ll be showing my news friends the face of the next...
View ArticleMoving right along
My news friends have their links to the new Almost Human book, the others are being published as we speak, and I have ONE LEFT before I’m all set with publishing things this year. This is exhausting....
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I’m almost done. It’s Monday, and I’m almost done with the tenth story I’m putting out. I’ve even set myself up so that everything will be fairly quick to accomplish once the title and cover are...
View ArticleBack to Northam / Atlantis
I did it. Ten titles, ready for reading. And it’s only Tuesday. I can hear the hallelujah chorus singing. Rebecca just perked up. She’s toeing the line between reflective and hopeful. Nikki reappeared,...
View ArticleDescribing Terrified
It's throwing up before a show and feeling like your guts have just all pooled on the floor. When you run into a group of hardened, tough men at the mouth of a darkened alley, it's the white-hot heat...
View ArticleDescribing Embarrassed
When you're making a presentation, it's forgetting all your lines, and your materials, and becoming hot, and sweaty, and panicked while a group of bored, impatient, sympathetic, and tired faces wait...
View ArticleDescribing Hesitant
When you enter a dirty bathroom, it's the reluctance you have to touch the stall doors, or the sink knobs, or even use one of the toilets. It's the uncertain look you pass to your friends as you try to...
View ArticleDescribing Remorseful
When you get angry at someone for disagreeing with you, and you snap at them without thinking, it's the feeling you're left with after realizing you were wrong. It's the feeling you get while you're...
View ArticleDescribing Openness
It's wanting to go out, until you actually get asked to do something, and then saying you'll go anyway because didn't you just want this? When you're out, it's reminding yourself why you're there, and...
View ArticleDescribing Shame, and #ROW80
It's telling your best friend something private and secret about yourself, and then listening to her reprimand you for even having those thoughts at all. It's the hot-cold flush you feel afterwards,...
View ArticleDescribing Judgment, and #ROW80 Progress
It's making fun of my mom and Sister 2 for watching the Bachelor a couple years ago, and then stopping every so often, mesmerized and yet self-loathing for allowing myself to become so captivated. It's...
View ArticleDescribing Frightened
It's worrying your fingers while you wait for the dentist to come back and give you Novocaine for a wisdom tooth withdrawal. It's being the last group to perform in a series of short plays, and...
View ArticleGive it patience
Give it patience Holy joy Prepare to be the author of your Love, A revelation, An opportunity. Be held And encounter love Weakness to victory, Testimony to healing. Walk with me. Copyright © 2017...
View ArticleHow much?
How much do you want this? Enough to keep your day job? Enough to work every time you have a free minute? What are you willing to give up? Because you’ll have to say no, you know, and not just to the...
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