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Hey there! Today is the day! Freak, Book 3 of the Signal Bend Heritage series is NOW AVAILABLE. You can find it at Amazon and most other vendors. Freak features Abigail Freeman as the FMC. Abigail is a new character to this series, introduced in Book 1 (Virago) and featured in a significant subplot of…
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This coming Monday is the 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which finally enfranchised women of the United States with the power of the vote. Progress in this country has always traveled a stuttering, circuitous path, making promises and reneging, picking and choosing who gets rights and when they get them or…
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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…
