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Every summer, the readers in the Susan’s FANetties FB group have a Q&A in which they submit questions to me, and I, usually quite reserved throughout the year, hold forth at length in my answers. This year, the 11th, had a particularly great collection of questions that really made me think. One of them got…
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… and a little preview! Hey, everyone! I hope you’re keeping cool and getting some happy times in your summer! I’ve got some good news, I think. Last week, I finished a manuscript—the first novel I’ve finished in a whole year. I’m starting to actually believe my violent bout with writer’s block is finally over,…
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how dearly I love my adopted home state of California. I’m a native Midwesterner, born in St. Louis and mostly raised there (we lived in Milwaukee for a few years when I was in grade school). A lot of my adult life was also lived in Missouri and…
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Hiya! It’s summertime! Yay! If we’re speaking simply about what seasons mean and bring, autumn is unambiguously my favorite season. Though we live in California and don’t actually get much in the way of changing seasons (we basically go from eight months of boiling heat from a sun hanging in an unremittingly blue sky to…
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… and might entertain you! Hey there! As advertised in my 1 May post, now that this is the only place where I am an Author Online, I’m planning to post twice a month. My semester ended literally yesterday, and grades are due early next week, so I’m seriously swamped with day-job work. So today…
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Hi there! It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I’ve become increasingly disillusioned with many aspects of my online life, and in the past six months or so, that disillusionment has hit a critical point. I am very much over the megalomaniacal oligarchs running most social media platforms, not to mention the biggest point of sale…
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As I’m streamlining my social media presence and focusing all writing content here, I’m planning a refresh of the blog layout and the way I use it. So, though it’s been about 6 months since I’ve posted new content (and what a slog those 6 months have been!), you’ll see a fresh look and new…
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Hi all, Just a quick post to let you know that my completed Kindle Vella story, The Sea-Mist Cottage Inn, is now available as a regular book on all the usual platforms–and as a paperback as well. It’s still up on Vella, too, if that’s where you’ve read it. The description: Leo Braddock is a…
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Hi all! Welcome to June’s News & Notes! If you’ve noticed that there was no May post, apologies. The end of the semester always brings with it a mountain of work, and I just didn’t have time to write up anything worth posting. But now it’s summer, so let’s do a quick update! PUBLISHING NEWS…
