Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
I’ve been busy revising Bound in Smoke and I’m really happy with it, just saying. My cover artist has started work on the cover, and that’s really exciting. Last weekend I was at a writing intensive near San Diego. We rented a house right on the beach and spent the weekend talking business. I hadn’t […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
Greetings from Northern California where the air quality is currently the worst in the world. :::We’re Number 1! We’re Number 1!::: Here’s a picture of what it’s been like here, 200 miles south of the Butte County fire. My heart goes out to everyone affected by the fires in northern and southern California. Smoke Filled […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
I can’t recall because I came to my blog and there were more updates and one of them hung and then I had to disable one, and do some manual updates, and sometimes the internet here is so s. . . . l. . . o. . . w that I give up after a […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
The Search for the Perfect Writing Tools Writers need the right tools for their work, and boy do I have opinions on this. With respect to software, my opinion is that the people developing these tools spoke to anywhere from zero to one actual writer. In fact, I think they developed whatever their programming environment […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
Some of you may know that starting November 1, I will be President-Elect of Romance Writers of America (RWA). The following year, I will take over as President. I did not make the decision to run lightly and now that the election results are in, I will have a lot of additional responsibilities. I’m really […]
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Consider this a miscellaneous information announcement post where I cover social media, book covers, my writing schedule, and the next two years or so. Facebook Facebook has never been my favorite social media, and they have been making it more and more difficult for authors to actually connect with readers without laying down cash. I […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
Need to do one simple thing on your computer and end up spending all day doing computer updates and installs? And then get almost nothing actually done, including that one simple thing? Because that’s me today.
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Yesterday, I hit 76,000 on The Next Paranormal. I’m up to Chapter 29 of 39 in revisions. Basically, the story is done and now it’s polishing, bringing out theme, and going through my Action Items list. I expect some of the remaining chapters to be folded in to others, and, per usual for me, I […]
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Writer’s Diary – Romance Author With A Few Opinions
Here in the US, it’s Labor Day, a day when most workers have a day off from their daily paid labors. Solidarity, workers of the world. I’m kicking back and . . . working today. At the writing job. The Next Paranormal is now over 70,000 words and I’m up to chapter 24 in the […]
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If you’re reading this, congratulations to us all because it means my move to a new webhost was successful. I’d been with my previous webhost for over ten years and they were really stellar. If there was a problem it got fixed quickly and courteously. I feel it’s not unrelated, given the story I’m about […]
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