Musings
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Every year when I write this New Year’s post, I say how glad I am the old year is over and how much I hope the new year will be nicer. I’m going to stop doing that, ‘cuz I think I’m jinxing us all. Besides, I am very much a glass-half-empty kind of person (actually,…
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This year, for the first time, I did the Goodreads Reading Challenge, and having that target to strive for made me find more time than I usually do to read for pleasure. Because I write so much, and read so much to teach, and to do beta and editing work for writer friends, I have…
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Hi. I got another message from a reader who was hurt that I hadn’t accepted her Facebook friend request, so I thought it was time to make another post about why I generally don’t accept friend requests from readers. I answered her privately, but here I want to address the question more broadly. The first…
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Hi! I just finished my last day of classes for the spring 2018 semester last night! There are still some meetings to survive, and more papers to grade than I want to think about, but summer is so close I can smell the sunscreen! Who am I kidding? I’m not going to need sunscreen, because…
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I don’t usually talk much about myself on my author social media, because, well … who the hell cares about what I do with my life that isn’t writing books. But lately, my day job and my writing have collided in some interesting ways, and it’s made me feel contemplative, so I thought I’d share,…
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Since I began writing fiction, and because my day job also requires a lot of reading and writing, I don’t get to read for simple pleasure as much as I used to. But I manage a couple books a month or so. Last year, I posted a list of my top five reads, and readers…
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Hi all, Here at the middle of 2017, I thought I’d give you an update on my publishing plans through the balance of the year, and a sketch of my plans beyond that. In order to do so, I have to tell you a little story, one that’s pretty embarrassing in some respects. I hope…
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Father’s Sun, the conclusion of The Northwomen Sagas, is live and available on Amazon. It’s in Kindle Unlimited and exclusive to Amazon through the summer. I’m working on removing the series from KU so that I can publish it on other platforms in the fall, so the earlier titles in the series will be coming off…
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Hey there. I’m contemplating a project (which is still tentative, so I’m not ready to say more about it), for which I’ve undertaken a re-read and re-edit of the Signal Bend Series. Other than to skim sections here and there to check for continuity points as I’ve continued telling stories in the same world, or to…
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Hi! Between my day job and this author gig, both of which require me to read a whole lot, I don’t get to read for pleasure all that much anymore, but this year I read a few dozen books just because, and some were really awesome. For what it’s worth, I thought I’d share my…