The Unexpected Book Deal

  This is the post I never thought I’d get to write. Back in July I spent five hours skyping my crit partner in Australia and sobbing about how this book was dead. The very last agent had it and I was sure a rejection was imminent. Me weird, strange,…

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Missed Calls -or- How I Got My Agent

Monday morning I arrived home from the grocery store at 9:06. My phone was upstairs charging, and I felt calm and in control. Then I looked at the clock again, remembered that Marlene lives in Florida which is an hour ahead of me in the Midwest, and ran upstairs. Yeah…….

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You vs The Apocalypse

My last house was a pretty little ranch-style home located on the block were Hurricane Central and Tornado Alley share a summer home. We spent more than one night sleeping in the closet because a tornado rolled into town. While I was there dodging strong winds and the occasional flying…

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Regrowing Limbs

All my cyborg daydreams have just been crushed, ladies and gentlemen. I’m heartbroken, absolutely heartbroken that there is a possible future without men and guns combined into one beautiful being. *sigh* Mechanical limbs, or replacement body parts, were in use as far back as the early Egyptian cultures. The common…

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