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Get to the Con: It Might Charge You

Get to the Con: It Might Charge You

The title is a bit misleading. I’m not going to teach you how to con people. There are plenty of movies and books out there if you wanted to learn this. Instead, I’m encouraging you to go to a writer’s con (conference). I recently returned from one and it’s a writer’s life altering experience. Going to a writer’s conference was

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I’m absolutely in love with the cover of my latest book “Her Feet on Fire.” The book’s in the polishing stages and should be published late summer or early fall. It’s about a woman trail runner Maisie whose job is to run outside the boundaries of town in order to protect the town from outsiders. She runs miles and days

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When People Ask: "How do you write all that?"

When People Ask: "How do you write all that?"

I’ve often been asked by families, friends, fans and people sharing my jail cell, “how do you write so much?” Then the person goes into how they struggle to write a paragraph, a letter, a note in a card or their papers in high school and college. They don’t ‘get me’ and I don’t ‘get them’ because we view writing

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In Sickness, Health & Superpowers

In Sickness, Health & Superpowers

Yes, I’ve taken that scary step into the supernatural. I don’t think it’s half-bad. Readers/fans have reviewed it as “supernatural writing that keeps the characters realistic.” I’ll take that as a compliment. Fun trivia fact for when I’m more famous. . . the working title of the book was Liv & Dalton. This now means nothing to you because I

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Writer’s Conference

Writer’s Conference

I’d be lying if I said that I don’t have a list of things I’m bringing and what I’m wearing at my first writer’s conference this summer of 2016. I haven’t been this excited to be surrounded by so many people with “like” interests since I went to sleepover, basketball camp in high school. I have visions of multiple writers

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