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TANJ (There Ain’t No Justice)

For those who don’t know, or may have forgotten, I want to introduce you to a master storyteller, Spider Robinson.  Spider is in my top five absolute favorite authors.  He’s

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Hunger Games or Edit Games

So let me start by stating that I don’t have a best selling series of books. Heck I’d love at least a published book!  My book(s) have not been made into

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Goodness Gracious!

So. there’s this thing called A Round of Words in 80 Days.  The idea is to get your butt into a habit by setting up goals that work with a

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Burn Out Recovery

It is really kind of amazing to realize just how burned out you are from the day job, from the kids and from every other little project you suck yourself

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SCWC or Holy Crap! I need to rewrite my novel!

September is the time when I remember just how hypocritical I can be.  I think I have a book that is ready for an Agent or even a publisher.  Doesn’t

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Movies this year – what’s the point

So I’ve taken the boys to the movies I wanted to watch, minus a couple of them and overall, the whole movie experience has been “Meh.” I’m not even sure

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The post I don’t want to put up but think I need to…

Depression.  Normal people seem to think of depression as either something you can just “suck it up” and get better or you spiral so far down that you either attempt

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Editing the right way

This last weekend I went to the Southern California Writer’s Conference, LA-ish.  (ish, because it’s actually in Orang County). I love this convention. It is fun, really informative, and generally

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PubSlush – Is there a downside?

One of the workshops I attended at the Southern California Writers Conference was an intro to Pubslush.com. Think Kickstarter, or more likely IndieGoGo but only for books. If you are planning

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Talking to myself

With a nod to Mur Lafferty‘s articles doing the same type of thing. ME: Happy 43rd birthday to me! Me at 42: Yeah right. Me at 41: Hehe, yeah, what

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The Star Wars Insult

Recently it was released that the new Star Wars movies will not follow the Expanded Universe. The Expanded Universe that encompasses hundreds of novels, stories, video games, etc. All of

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The Amazon Wars Part 1

The Amazon vs. Hachette war heats up with petitions: big name Hachette authors signing letters to demanding Amazon to sell their books and petitions to tell Amazon that they rock

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Reboot!

I’m rebooting the site.  As odd as my mind actually is, I need to have some kind of focus for the site.  And that starts now.

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