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Saturday Snippet - Fire from Ashes

Saturday Snippet – Fire from Ashes

Good morning! Welcome to Snippet Saturday. If you are joining the blog for the first time or if you haven’t figured out what’s going on in my warped writer’s mind, I’m posting snippets from the Honor & Duty series as we lead up to the release of Victory from Ashes. Today’s offering is from Fire from Ashes, Book 4 in the series. * Crocket’s Landing Tenasic System “Incoming!” Dirt and debris filled…

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In retrospect

There are a number of things Amazon does well for indie authors and some they don’t do so well. One thing they do kinda-sorta well is offering us the chance to put books up for pre-order. They were major outlet to offer us that option. It’s a great tool in a lot of ways. We can have an actual link to a product page when we promote the upcoming book. We can go ahead and set up the book and series…

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On life, conflict, commitments and writing

On life, conflict, commitments and writing

To say life has been “interesting’ is putting it mildly. The last two weeks have not been anything like I planned. I’m still trying to roll with the punches of a couple of unexpected complications in my life. One of them should come into better focus later today — and that should give me a better idea on how to deal with it. That, in turn, will let me deal with the second complication, assuming…

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Shatner's Mic Drop Is Epic Comeback

Shatner’s Mic Drop Is Epic Comeback

I admit it. I’m not a huge William Shatner fan. In fact, I usually think of him as a caricature of himself these days. It is as if he took his over-acted Captain Kirk character and did his best to become him sans the spaceship. But I have to give it to him today. He not only spoke with eloquence, as well as one can on Twitter, about ALCS’s decision to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from the…

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Release Day!

(Reblogged from Mad Genius Club)

The most exciting day in an author’s life is also the most terrifying day. Release day. That day when you push the button, the virtual door opens and your “baby” races out the door into the world or readers. Will they love your baby? Or will they look at it, screw up their noses and say “ewwww!”? You hope for the former, pray it’s not the latter and promise…

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One more day

Oh man, the last two weeks or so have been busy and not always in a good way. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again but, just when you think things are going well, life will through a wrench into things. That is exactly what happened and why the blog suddenly went dark. Between trying to make sure I had Fire from Ashesready for release and life, the blog was so far down the list of things to…

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Vacation's over.

Vacation’s over.

Yep, you read that right. I took a vacation. Well, I took some time off and actually allowed myself time to relax and have fun. I hadn’t realized just how badly I needed it until it was almost over. But I’m back now, working on the final edits for Fire from Ashes. I’m recharged and excited about writing again. More than that, I can hardly wait for Fireto be released and see if you enjoy it as…

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Finally, the belated snippet

Finally, the belated snippet

I apologize for the late snippet. I have been working to finish an editing project for another author and got involved yesterday. This is one of those projects that are a joy — as well as a frustration — to work on. It’s a joy because the book is really, really good. It’s frustrating because I get involved in the book and forget to keep the editor’s hat on. I can’t wait for the book to be…

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