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Author Interview: Amy Metz
I met Amy Metz at an Indie Authors event last fall where she offered advice to aspiring authors on self-publishing. She is the creator of the Goose Pimple Junction Mystery Series. How did you decide to become an author? It just kind of happened. I was 48 when my mother was diagnosed with dementia,…
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Friday’s Findings 04.06.18
Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Loved ‘Ready Player One’? Check out these 8 Books Margaret Atwood’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction Amazon to Spend a Billion Dollars to License “The Three-Body Problem”? Using Third Person vs First Person Novel Narratives What Mystery Propels Your Novel? View my Consortium SF Series at…
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My Reading Past, Present, and Future 04.04.18
Past: Recently read books Present: Currently reading books Future: On my to-read list. But will I? Past: Tigerman (audio) by Nick Harkaway Sargeant Lester Ferris has braved bullets, bombs and bad guys throughout his military career with the British army. But when it comes to relationships, especially with the street boy he wants to adopt…
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Scrivener Tip: Keeping Track of Characters
I have many characters in my novel, both major and minor. Here’s the method I use in Scrivener to keep track of characters in my books series. My books are science fiction, so consistency in the odd spelling of non-Earth names is important–but I was going crazy trying to spell an alien’s name the same…
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Friday’s Findings 03.30.18
Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: How Do You Find Time To Write? Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf Frame Your Scene with Essay Structure How to Increase Your Income as a Fiction Writer in 2018 Visual Thinking View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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My Fiction Writing Toolkit
When I write, I motivate myself by reviewing some of my Fiction Writing Tools. For some reason they get me going. Below are articles from this blog that are sure to motivate you: Character Character Workshop Temptations to Avoid Conflict Conflict Workshop Description Describe an Object Ten Ways Dialogue Subtext Plot Hero’s Journey Three Act…
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My Reading Past, Present and Future: 03.28.18
Giveaway If you are a reader, you might like the website LibraryThing.com. It is similar to Goodreads. Through LibraryThing.com, I am running a giveaway of the first two books in my Consortium series. Click here if you are interested and scroll down until you come to my books OMNIORB and ADVOCATE. This giveaway lasts through…
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The Only Time I’ve Regretted Being a Book Lover
My house, being over twenty-years-old, needed new floors. The hardest aspect of this remodeling wasn’t replacing the carpet with wood. It wasn’t the dust. It wasn’t every room in the house in disarray. It wasn’t moving furniture around. It was boxing up all my books. And I have a ton of books–in almost every room.…
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Author Interview: JR Wirth
JR Wirth and I crossed paths a few years ago when we were associated with a small publishing company, and I ended up doing some design work for him. Wirth prolifically writes in the paranormal and supernatural genre and others as well. How did you decide to become an author? It started while I was…
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