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EWTF preview series, chapter 1.3: likely to fail

Here’s the third chapter! Getting down to crunch time now! As long as there are no snags in the formatting (and there shouldn’t be – I’ve practiced it a bit before), the ebook should go live sometime around Friday! ************************************** 1.3: LIKELY TO FAIL It 

EWTF preview series, chapter 1.2: things to do before forty

Here’s the second chapter for my Exactly Where They’d Fall preview series! This one is more newly revised than most of the others, so hopefully I got all the typos out of it, lol! 😉 ************************************** 1.2: THINGS TO DO BEFORE FORTY The dog died. 

EWTF preview series: bathroom shenanigans and killing darlings

You have to kill your darlings, they say. You can ask my LH peanut gallery if you want – I have a thing about bathroom shenanigans. Don’t ask me why. Perhaps you can blame it on the Sims I used to use to illustrate my 

EWTF preview series, chapter 1.1: a fraction of a sliver of a moment

I’m happy to announce the start of the EWTF Preview Series leading up to next week’s release of my debut novel, Exactly Where They’d Fall! (No, you guys, in my head it’s more like: Wheeee!!!!!11!!!! OMG, OMG, OMG! *bites fingernails* lol!) In the next ten-or-so 

the last revision: a life for keeps

Hey, you guys! How ARE you? What have you been doing? Is life good? So sorry about the silence lately. Sometimes you just have to duck your head down and work, rather than just talking about the work. Sometimes you have to get off Pinterest 

lucky seven meme

I was tagged by Nina for this. I rarely do memes but since I don’t have anything else more useful to post on my blog today, here it goes! 😀 Here are the rules: Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript Go 

week #1: daylight savings time

daylight savings time: The clock has dust on it; I notice this as I take it down to change the time. One hour lost. Who dusts their clocks? I don’t have time to dust my bathroom of all its toilet tissue fluff. I’m lucky if 

the indie author hat, part 2: a story of great responsibility…

With the indie author hat comes a great responsibility. If you have the power to bring any words you want to the world, then you shoulder the WHOLE responsiblity of making sure they’re the best words you have to give. Self publishing is not the 

some days look like this…

Need to do some edits… pour coffee #1, might as well get Tumblr, Pinterest, and Facebook out of the way… coffee #2, okay now work, chapter 4.2, read it, one scene, push a few commas around… what’s the weather like out there? (wouldn’t know because 

here’s something you can’t do with ebooks…

A book title poem, for Annie. This was much, much fun! Everyone should try it! 🙂 Bad Behavior Jane sexes it up. Bad behavior for broken angels. Normal people don’t live like this. The life before her eyes was the odyssey, and then we came