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Review: AFTERMATH by Chuck Wendig
I’ve been sitting on writing this review for a while because this book ended up being pretty contradictory for me. In the end, my rating averages out to a low 4 stars.
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Liebster Award tag
I’ve been tagged in another fake award chain letter thing. Whooo! This time, I was tagged by author Shannon Eichorn (blog and Twitter here) to answer more questions about things you will 100% need to know the next time I am a topic at your local trivia night. I like answering these things because I…
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Final STEEL BLOOD Wrap-Up
Now that I’ve finally completed the first draft of book 3, tentatively titled STEEL BLOOD, I wanted to do a bit of a wrap-up on it. These questions were gleefully stolen from fellow writer Breeanna Pierce, and you can check out her final thoughts on her most recent novel here. Previous posts I’ve made about…
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January Wrap-Up & February Goals
First of all, can we just spend a moment basking in the fact that this happened yesterday? I did a bit more tweaking today, and STEEL BLOOD is currently at 79,999 words and on it’s way to the beta readers! January Wrap-Up: Finish book 3: DONE! WOOT! Finish edits on prequel story 1: DONE! I’m…
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STEEL VICTORY featured at the Blog Mansion
Johnny Worthen featured STEEL VICTORY and me over at his web site! Check out The Blog Mansion for a discussion of STEEL VICTORY and the true meaning of names here. Thanks for having me, Gregoius IV! If that’s actually your name… (You can find Worthen’s own books here!)
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Snow Day Special: STEEL VICTORY deleted scene!
Since we had another snow day here at Casa Siamese, or Limani HQ, or STEEL EMPIRES central, or whatever I feel like calling my house today, I figured it was time for a treat to break us out of the winter doldrums. Or at least while we take a break from shoveling. (There was a…
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Snow Day Odds & Ends
I hope everyone (like me) in the Mid-Atlantic is staying safe and dry during Snowzilla! I didn’t actually have a snow day, but it is officially snowing out, so here are some small bits to keep entertained. STEEL VICTORY was Geek Syndicate’s Elevator Pitch book today! They’ve included their one-sentence description of the novel along with…
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Updated Web Site!
I’d been letting some details languish, so thought I’d spend a few minutes today updating some of the sections of this blog! Chronology page: Updated some progress notes and added a story I’m brainstorming, the coda to book 2, STEEL MAGIC. Theme Songs page: Half the reason I’m writing a coda to STEEL MAGIC is…
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Infinity Dreams Award Tag
I was tagged a few weeks ago by Nicolette Elzie of A Little Bookish, A Little Writerly to participate in the Infinity Dreams Award Tag. I’m not really sure what the award part is, but basically I share some more about myself as a writer and person (because if all a person does is write,…
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Permission to write: why a writing retreat offers 4 great benefits to your creativity
I could write a post about Raw Dog Screaming Press’s new writing retreat at Broadkill but K.W. Taylor beat me to the punch!
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December Wrap-Up & January Goals
December was both a slow and hectic month for me. Slow in that I was out of commission with a nasty cold for the first 1/3 of the month and hectic because the holidays coincided with the deadline for the final draft of STEEL MAGIC. (But it was submitted on time! Go me!) December Wrap-Up:…
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7/7/7 Challenge + Mention in Alumni Magazine!
Two small updates today, because my life has been consumed by preparations for the holidays and edits to book 2, STEEL MAGIC.
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Review: LOST STARS by Claudia Gray
My husband and I were really surprised to learn that this novel was marketed as Young Adult after we’d read it. We both thought this novel was better than many adult STAR WARS books we’ve read over the years!
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NaNoWriMo Follow-up: Part 1
Sorry for the silence for the past 2 weeks. I picked up a cold on the last day of November and it took me down hard. But I’m feeling much better now! Unfortunately, my days have been wrapped up with working on STEEL MAGIC edits, and my NaNoWriMo novel is still languishing at 70k words.…
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November Wrap-Up & December Goals
November Wrap-Up: Participate in NaNoWriMo (successfully): Done! I wrote 50,000 words in 30 days over the month of November, bringing my word count for book 3 to 70,014 words. December Goals: Incorporate my editor’s notes and complete the full line edit of STEEL MAGIC before deadline on 12/31/2015. Start working on a series bible for…
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NaNoWriMo Update: WINNER!
NaNoWriMo for 2015 is finally done, with a few hours to spare. This is my second year “winning” in a row, and just like last year, I definitely still have a lot of work to do. This time, it’s writing about 8 more scenes (including the epic dragon battle while a city burns) and going…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Week 2
I’m still plugging along, kids! Sort of. This update was supposed to go up on Monday, but I burned one of my free days and drank beer and caught up on the DVR instead. No regrets! As of last night, I’m at 29,086 words (49,086 for the STEEL BLOOD total). As a reminder, you can…
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