Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Forging Your Own Writing Path

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 by Sybil Johnson I found Barbara’s post last Wednesday (“When is enough enough?”) thought-provoking. As writers we get so caught up in wha...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

The Final Stretch and Freebies

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 I've posted before about my role as the jefe editor for Ramas y Raices: The Best of CALMA , an anthology from the Colorado Alliance of ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

When is enough enough?

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 How does a writer know when to quit? How many books are enough? How long a series is too long? These are questions I've been grappling ...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

What Happened Was...

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 by Charlotte Hinger A couple of week ago I started a semi-witty post about chickens. I wrote it at night which is always a mistake and inte...
Monday, May 20, 2024

How Insulting! And Loving It!

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 Have you ever been in a heated conversation and, when it was over and you had a chance to think about it, wished you could go back and thro...
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Thursday, May 16, 2024

The Never Ending WIP

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I have been incredibly crabby over the past couple of weeks. I don’t know quite what to blame it on. Sometimes these moods just come and go ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Malice Domestic 2024 Recap

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 by Sybil Johnson In my last post, I talked about the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. A few days after that event, I headed to Maryland...
Wednesday, May 08, 2024

The blurb industry

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 How time flies! How can I already be late for my Type M post? Today I want to comment on what I see is an increasing trend in publishing. R...
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Thursday, May 02, 2024

Never Shoot the Dog

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When all the brouhaha first arose concerning a most unfortunate incident perpetrated by a certain Governor of South Dakota, one of my first ...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2024

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 by Sybil Johnson The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was held April 20-21 on the main campus of the University of Southern California....
Monday, April 29, 2024

Writers Gotta' Write

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 By Thomas Kies In a recent blog that’s gone viral written by Elle Griffin for the website www.Elysianpress.com, she refers to the time when...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Never Take Our time Together For Granted

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Here's a blog I was hoping I'd never have to write. Last December, Travis Heermann was in a very serious motorcycle accident, which ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Drumroll...

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 Barbara here, finally. I have been AWOL from this blog for a month due to unexpected medical challenges but I am back!Albeit late and with ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Podcasts, Podcasts, Podcasts

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 by Sybil Johnson I’ve written a couple posts before about some of the podcasts I’ve listened to over the last few years. I admit that I hav...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

More About Curses

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 by Charlotte Hinger Both Thomas and Donis have recent posts about cursing. According to the guidelines for submissions for the Will Rogers ...
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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Colorful Language

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Oh, dear me. I have company coming. I have been cleaning like a madwoman and have fallen so far behind on everything writerly. I missed my l...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Sunny for the Bunny and more

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  by Sybil Johnson  Today I shall talk about a number of random topics I’ve found of interest lately. Let’s start out with Sunny for the Bun...
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Monday, April 01, 2024

Curses! When To Use Them!

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 By Thomas Kies Swearing, cursing…include it in your dialogue?  Don’t include it?  Does it make what your characters are saying any less aut...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Stories Not Yet Written

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 I recently saw The Godfather Part II and one scene that struck me as painfully relevant to today was when the young Vito Corleone was proc...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Let Us Begin

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When you open a book you've never read before, when did you first go “Hmm! How interesting!” I (Donis) know you've heard many times ...