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Prism Book Alliance Guest Post: Outside the Margins – Writing What You Know
Join me on Prism Book Alliance’s Outside the Margins column. Today I discuss research for my novels. I hope you’ll take a look and...
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Mar 5, 2015
Flash Fiction Monday – No Story
I’m afraid this week I had to skip doing a flash fic. I’m up to my ears in research and writing and my brain just wasn’t feeling up to...
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Mar 2, 2015


No GRL For Me
Today’s the sign up for GRL this fall and I’m sad to say I won’t be going. I left it last year planning to go as an author but the...
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Feb 28, 2015


Scent Memories
Scent is a funny thing. It triggers so many memories and there’s no controlling them. The memories leap out when you least expect them....
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Feb 25, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – Hitched
Notes: This week I decided to revisit Van and Bobby from a previous week’s flash fic. Hitched The sight of Van in well-worn jeans and...
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Feb 23, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – Lights, Camera, Valentine’s Day?
Lights, Camera, Valentine’s Day? Boyce sat up as he mimed taking a bite of the chocolate covered strawberry offered by the guy straddling...
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Feb 16, 2015


Valentine’s Day Giveaway
Some people love Valentine’s Day, others absolutely loathe it. Me? I’m somewhere in the middle. I like spending the day with my...
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Feb 13, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – Anniversary
Note: This week’s story is a little different. I wrote it using characters from a short story I have published. If you’ve read Not So...
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Feb 9, 2015


Prism Book Alliance Guest Post: Outside the Margins – Monday Flash Fics
Join me on Prism Book Alliance’s Outside the Margins column. I discuss the Monday Flash Fics I’ve been doing and there are links to join...
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Feb 5, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – Bouncing Back
Bouncing Back The house sat—vacant and alone—for many years. The roof sagged, the paint peeled, and the house lost hope. It slumbered...
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Feb 2, 2015


Mercury in Retrograde or Why I’m Hiding Under a Rock
Astrology is something I’m more inclined to giggle at than take terribly seriously, but there’s something to be said for how nutso people...
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Jan 31, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – A Roll in the … Straw?
A Roll in the … Straw? Bobby let the screen door slam behind him as he strode toward the horse barn. Where in the hell was Van? His...
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Jan 26, 2015


Thud
I’ve been writing like mad in the last week and a half and have over 15,000 words on Evan’s story. The story’s outlined, I have a clear...
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Jan 22, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – The Bet
The Bet “I won!” Reuben crowed as he pulled on his underwear. “HA! In your face, Cliff, I won!” Cliff doubled over, laughing. “I can’t...
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Jan 19, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – Tangled
Tangled “C’mon Jesse, let’s walk the dogs!” Vincent chirped, his tone alarmingly cheerful for someone who’d only had five hours of sleep....
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Jan 12, 2015


Prism Book Alliance Guest Post: Outside the Margins – Finding Balance
I ran out of time to post a link on here yesterday, but if you haven’t yet, please join me on Prism Book Alliance’s Outside the Margins...
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Jan 6, 2015


Flash Fiction Monday – Testing the Mattress
Testing the Mattress Jack walked out of the old mansion, loosening his bow tie. Newly single, he felt vaguely irritated as he looked...
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Jan 5, 2015


Flash Fiction Mondays
After the struggles I had with the holiday novella, I feel blah and uninspired. Despite the thousand and one plot bunnies and two nearly...
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Dec 29, 2014


The Stockings Were Hung by the Aquarium With Care …
For all my moping about not being able to spend Christmas with my parents, I got myself in gear, bought two stockings (ours were at my...
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Dec 26, 2014


Christmas Ambivalence
I have mixed feelings about Christmas this year. I’ve been so busy with the novella that my Christmas preparation didn’t really get...
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Dec 23, 2014
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