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Writer Craft Wednesday: WAYS TO SHOW A CHARACTERS PERSONALITY

One thing I run into a lot when editing is a manuscript that has been edited to the point of sterility. The personality and flavor have vanished because the author was too focused on the mechanics of writing the plot. Giving characters lives, likes, and dislikes outside the main plot…

A Short Note About Growing Up

Today I chilled in a hammock that sits between my home library and the LEGO room. I’m 38 and allowed to do these things. The library was originally designed as a sitting room… a place to have guests sit that is kept clean so the rest of the house is…

Happy Release Day To ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS A REAPER!

Your Horror For The Holidays PRINT | EBOOK | Inkprint | Goodreads | Pintrest Meet Meredith Kriesmas, forensic accountant who sharpens numbers the way killers sharpen knives—Chicago’s very own Grim Reaper of the business world. Whole divisions close in her wake, and her clients pay handsomely for it. But ten minutes into a three-day…

Squares for a Hope Quilt

Life is a little chaotic and hectic right now. My restful activity for the evenings has become embroidering quilt squares for a community Hope Quilt. Everyone who wanted a quilt square was given one, and as many as are returned are being quilted into blankets to give to various shelters…

Sam And Mac Are Officially Back!

In anticipation of the re-release of THE DAY BEFORE the fan-favorite duo of Sam Rose and Linsey MacKenzie are back in action on Patreon with a special annotated edition of the book that started it all. If you’ve read the Time & Shadows series before, now is a great time…

CHANGE OF MOMENTUM… imagine your OTP!

To celebrate CHANGE OF MOMENTUM being out I thought it would be fun to do answer some OTP (one true pair) questions about everyone’s favorite couple in the Malik System. Eats the last slice of pizza and is playfully ignored by the other until they apologize? — If either of…

Pre-Order Swag Is Here!

CHANGE OF MOMENTUM is coming out in little under a month and to prepare for it I have swag! If you send me proof of pre-order you’ll not only get a digital copy of the first three chapters of CHANGE OF MOMENTUM so you can start reading early, you’ll also…

Trying Something New

Tomorrow I’m doing something new. I’m taking a script writing class. It’s a brand new creative ocean to go swimming in, and I feel like a very tiny guppy who isn’t going to be able to complete with the lovely fish in California who have years of experience talking about…

Writing Is Hard

Writing is hard. Publishing is harder. There’s a bell curve. The weakest get weeded out early on. They talk about wanting to write, and the book they’ve always imagined, but never actually sit down to write. On the top end you lose the truly gifted. The delicate orchids of writer-dom…

How Stories Happen

Anyone who has publicly admitted to writing a book has heard the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” And, because we have a certain reluctance to admitting we pull full manuscripts from a cursed well in the forest under the light of a new moon, authors will often stumble…