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Continue reading →: The RISE Review 🔥 | May 2025Are you standing still or headed into new beginnings? Hello friends, I’ve been thinking a lot about new beginnings and next steps lately. My oldest is headed off to college this year! She was a 5th grader when I wrote the first draft of A Flash of Fire…and a lot…
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Continue reading →: The RISE Review 🔥 | April 2025Your Top-Secret Source for All Things Espionage & Enchantment
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Continue reading →: The RISE Review 🔥 | March 2025Your Top-Secret Source for All Things Espionage & Enchantment
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Continue reading →: Author’s Learning Workshop – #6 PUBLISHING – The new debate: Traditional vs. Indie vs. HybridOne of the hardest choices for a writer to make is whether or not to traditionally or independently publish. Whether you are brand new to the industry, have been querying for years, or have been agented and you are seeking new representation, this question will arise.
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Continue reading →: When Size Matters: Word Count with The Writing LodgeOne of my Twitter peeps, Gregory Austin, has is taken on the formative task of sharing the tribal knowledge of our great writing community with the world. As the founder of The Writing Lodge, he’s gathering helpful tips, industry pointers, and inspiring articles. He could use likes, shares, and retweets…
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Continue reading →: Seven Submission Tips From a Literary Agent’s Slush PileThanks to the hard work of Kristen Kieffer, Well-Storied is a wonderful resource for writers! In fact, in April 2019 issue, Writer’s Digest listed them as #19 on their “Top 100 Websites for Writers” list. I was thrilled to guest post my article “Seven Submission Tips From a Literary Agent’s…
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Continue reading →: Tired Phrases: When You’ve Had Enough!This is a compilation based off of a conversation that @nadinebells sparked on Twitter. So many people chimed in with their suggestions! I wanted to save them for future reference, so I pulled them all together here. She’s pretty for her age. (usually said about women who are around 30)…
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Continue reading →: How to eat a compliment sandwich…I have focused the last few Author’s Learning Workshops on editing. Mostly, they’ve looked at the practical points of editing, but they haven’t addressed the emotional part of editing. Critiquing your own work can be hard. Having other people tell you how to improve your work can be even harder.…
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Continue reading →: One Man’s Legacy, a short storyI feel so grateful for the generosity of Jamie and Eli Potter and AutoDesk. The following short story is my winning submission written for The Blockchain and Crypto Currency Scholarship for the 2019 San Francisco Writers Conference. I’m looking forward to attending the SFWC 2019 and the chance to…
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Continue reading →: Can you say, “What will I learn about me today?”Is this forum meant to update you as the reader or for me to educate and share as a writer? Probably both. That being said, I have nothing magical or wonderful to say. No tidbits of wisdom or magic beans to watch grow. In short, it’s has been a couple…
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Continue reading →: Pitch Parties and Contests on TwitterI am pitching and querying which means that I am looking for ANY way to get my work into the hands of an agent or editor. My favorite has been via conferences because I love the face to face, but I have been looking for other options, as well. Spending…
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Continue reading →: Things to take to a writer’s conference and how ramen inspired my list…I wanted a catchy title, but I also wanted to be super clear about what this blog is about. Apparently, I got one and not the other. It’s that sort of day. My head is all wrapped up in getting ready for my second writer’s conference next week. At my…



