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  • I'd take the leap and say you've not truly "met" your characters yet. When you start to truly get to know who they are as people with all their idiosyncrasies and comm...
  • Good luck with your novel. I'm not at all familiar with YA novels, but it sounds like an interesting plot. And yes, I write from experience. I worked in the transporta...
  • My YA, Talent, has been picked up by Eternal Press, and is currently with their editors. Fifteen-and-a-half-year-old Sandee Mason wants to find her talent, get her dri...

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    52 ancestors, week #1 The theme for week one of 52 ancestors in 52 weeks is Foundations. I decided to write about my maternal grandfather this week because his line i...
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    Hot off the press! AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 YEARS: Travel Tales from a Not So Innocent Abroad (Braughler Books, March 2019). “All my life I have disagreed with Da...
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    NEED AN IDEA FOR YOUR NEXT NOVEL? Your book has been published, the publicity links have been made, and royalties are beginning to arrive as you breath...

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  • I think what is also quite clear is that women who succeed professionally--especially.... "let herself go") and had no-nonsense hair.  Now that she is in pre-campaign mode, her hair is always perfectly...
  • Donna Cavanagh commented on her article The Driver's License
    Hi Mary, thanks for your comments. I have lived with bad hair my whole life and then I have a bad eye, so it droops or closes in pictures a lot. I hate every picture I...
  • Fabulous tips Erin, thanks for sharing. I'm glad to be next to the driver's seat, as a translator of the finished work, I don't have to deal with beastly creatures speeding off with my words :-) Quote in reference: ( “I don't like to write, but I love to have written” by Michael Kanin )