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Hey Friends!
Do you ever just want to…escape?
Yeah, I get that.
There was this.
So, I had to do this…
In full disclosure, it wasn’t just because I needed to get away from the cold. See, ten years ago I started a writing retreat for aspiring (and published) authors,
Hey friends!
29. No, that’s not my age, (how I wish).
It’s how many degrees BELOW zero it was on Wednesday. Seriously.
I spent the day looking at houses in Florida.
But during the SUPER COLD week, I managed to rewrite book #3 in the Marshall Family saga.
Hey friends!
So…tomorrow is the big day.
Yeah…okay, sure it’s election night.
But I’m talking about—the Release Party for Wait for Me! (and, okay, I care very deeply for our country and its future, so before you come to the party, go vote. THEN, come and hang out with me!)
I’m sooooo excited for this book.Like,
Hey friends,
I hope you had a fun 4th of July! I drove down to IA last weekend to hang out with this bumpkin.
We took her shopping…I love this one with her and her Pops. Now, finally, hubs has something to keep him busy in Walmart.
So THAT is my great reason for not writing sooner to thank you all for your sweet reviews of Light My Fire!
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Megan H. asked me: “I’ve been thinking about becoming a writer when I finish school, and I was wondering how you got started, the only thing is that I have also looked for independent schools in London because I don’t know if I should expand my schooling.”
You know what’s NOT a great idea? Putting dinosaurs in a Transformer movie. But why, you ask, do dinosaurs show up in a Transformer’s move? Probably because someone was sitting in a meeting, looking at the script and said…”I dunno, something is missing…”
It’s not the dinosaurs. It’s the fact that yes,
I thought it might help aspiring writers to see a quick summary of the common mistakes I’m seeing as I look at entries and talk to authors looking to get published. So here they are, in no particular order.
Don;t forget that you can call the office for advise any time,
Outside, the wind howled, the thermometer dropping to a bracing negative nine degrees as I waited for Sally to arrive for our Monday Morning conversation. I had hoped she’d found a story question as she thought about the themes of her story. Ironically, I’d been thinking about printing services orange county and my new book,
I agreed to meet Sally at the local coffee shop on a Monday morning, and I told her to bring a notebook. I’d seen her at church a few times with her four children hanging off her like she might be monkey bars. She ran the children’s program and had even pulled off the church Christmas musical with twenty haloed children in under a month,
