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Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo Chapter 1 “Prince Clay. Why am I not surprised to find you here?” Shona hauled herself from the waves onto the rocks where he sat. He lifted his gaze slowly from the girl he’d been watching on the beach, pivoting to meet the finwoman. Shona […]
You can now find the second Water Rites book at your favorite retailer! Below the description you can find links to sample the first three chapters on this site. Happy reading! Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo Sample the first three chapters of Crestfallen here! Or if you’re new to the series, […]
I don’t need to tell you that the book publishing marketplace is all sorts of wacky at this moment in history. It seems a new change is revealed every other day or so. When your focus is on creative work, it can really throw you for a loop to have a distribution method or a […]
That was a fun title to write. Very dramatic. I can’t sustain that sort of drama for long, so I guess you get lucky there. 🙂 In my last post, I wrote about the pressures we all face in moving our writing and our businesses forward. The pressures of huge numbers of choices to wade […]
My husband played this song on the guitar the other night, and it reminded me how much I love it. Chelsea Hotel #2, a Leonard Cohen song from his 1974 album New Skin for the Old Ceremony. This Lana Del Rey version is my favorite. Now here’s Leonard Cohen performing his song, along with a story […]
There are more critical things to worry about in life than your writing career. This might be a crazy turn to take in a series called Own Your Writing Career….but follow me for a second. I bet you’ve noticed that lots of what this series covers is how to keep your head screwed on straight […]
Hello! I hope spring has been as fabulous to you and yours as it has been to us. We’re getting into the hot season faster than I’d like, but at least that means I can hear birds out my window, and watch the squirrels and their antics in the back yard. Squirrel babies are too […]
Look…here’s the thing. Many people who say they want to write, never actually set pen to the page, or fingers to the keyboard, or voice to the recorder. They talk about writing, but they never actually accomplish any writing. If you have written a book, completely, start to finish, then this puts you FAR ahead […]
Yep, it’s happened again. I’m full stream in the middle of completing some of the largest goals I’ve ever set for myself, have multiple projects lined up out toward eternity…and life chooses now to remind me that I am a mortal human with physical needs, and with two children who ALSO have physical needs. Oh, […]
A career in the arts can be the makings of a true obsession. No matter how we try, or how long we work, it can feel as though we can’t get things done fast enough. But to be a happy writer, you have to recall what made you happy before you ever set off on […]
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