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Song Styles
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, grandmoms, foster-moms, stepmoms, like-a-moms, expectant moms, even fur-moms … and all the moms I might have forgotten.Because it’s my day for songs, this one seemed appropriate:Mom – Meghan Trainor
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Well! That! Is! A lot of exclaiming!
Here’s my take on the never ending debate over our friend the exclamation mark. Personally, I find comments such as ‘never use it’ insane. Advice to use it three times at most in 100,000 words (Elmore Leonard) – impossible! So, here’s a simple rule I use – maybe you can too. If,…
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Revenge of the Bloodslinger Cover Reveal
Hey all. So aside from ink-slinging like a champ, I also run a small Imprint—Shadow Alley Press—that publishes a few select authors. One of those authors, uber-talented eden Hudson, is preparing to release her second Jubal Van Zandt novel—a gritty, dystopian, cyberpunk/urban fantasy mash-up, which rocks more than actual rocks. In honor of that…
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Monday Meanderings
I feel as if there’s a constant tension in my creative process between the old and the new.As a writer, I’m restless: always moving on to new worlds, new characters, new ideas. I love short stories in part because it enables me to take a sn…
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Song Styles
When I first started writing Scylla and Charybdis, I put together a soundtrack for it: songs appropriate to the overall plot / theme, specific characters, relationships, and some choices for the gender elements that were just plain bratty (s…
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Monday Meanderings
When I say I enjoy creating things and being creative, I mean it in two ways. The first is the standard usage: I like the invention, putting together something out of nothing or the mental bits and bobs of everything. The intellectual…



