Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Do You Wish You Wrote That?

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 by Sybil Johnson Someone asked me once in an interview what books I wished I’d written. It’s an interesting question. There are all sorts ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

WWA Forevermore

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 by Charlotte Hinger My trip to the Western Writers of America convention got off to a rocky start this year. I intended to take off for Kan...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Book Contests and Mob Hits for Uncle Sam

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 Earlier this week, a fellow writer shared that a couple of writer organizations were asking for book contest judges. Was I interested? No, ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2024

The Mystery Quest

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 Years ago, my husband brought home from the library a copy of Carl Jung’s Man and His Symbols. He writes poetry, and symbology is importan...
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Monday, June 17, 2024

Is Coffee a Necessity for Creative Writing?

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 By Thomas Kies I’m hard at work on a new book (almost 240 pages into it) and I’m really excited with it.  It’s dark but not terribly violen...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Scams That Target Writers

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by Sybil Johnson   It never ceases to amaze me how many people try to take advantage of others with various kinds of scams. If only they use...
Thursday, June 06, 2024

The Not-So-Good Old Days

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 Donis here. It's summer again in Phoenix, Arizona, and we are forecast to reach 113º F  today. Time for the first of my annual "it...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2024

When is enough not enough?

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 In my last post, I asked the question of when  writer ought to quit. Before the reviewers start searching for tactful ways to say "pre...
Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Fried Chicken

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 by Charlotte Hinger  I found this really great cartoon in The New Yorker. It was perfect for my Type M post. I really wanted to use it. It...
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...