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Mother’s Day can be a pain
In the United States, today was Mother’s Day. It started for me with a kiss from my husband, who is back from his travels on a temporary basis before moving to Puerto Rico permanently. We’re officially...
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More excerpts from The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire
(Which is still coming out December 9 and can be pre-ordered here. Outside the US, try this. I’m still waiting for a link to the paperback edition.) Foul language warning on this one! Her shelves were...
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A fun interview, a BigAl review, and a shameless bribe
Currently in Kindle Select, with a promotion coming later this month. This week I was fortunate enough to enjoy two big events in the life of The Ribs and Thigh Bones of Desire, my second novel. First,...
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The writing life: Should we risk offending people, or not?
Last month, an article in the Romance Writers of America newsletter Romance Writers Report by Jennifer Fusco caused quite a bit of controversy by recommending that authors avoid controversy. It gave...
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Creating believable relationships: Who are your characters’ imagos?
My husband and I made it through 23 years of marriage before certain fundamental issues caused us to decide to part as friends. I doubt we would have made it anywhere close to that long if we hadn’t,...
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Technology, gay rights, the Confederate flag, and other cool ways to date...
It’s exhilarating to be living through so much change, especially when it seems to be going in the right direction. But what if your books become dated because of it? Earlier this month at the Glens...
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Adventures in Amazon keyword padding
by Sandra Hutchison Authors sometimes work very hard to get keywords into their product descriptions on Amazon, but there’s actually a better way to come up in Amazon searches. It’s a technique called...
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Blooming furiously before the frost: the usefulness of deadlines
She climbed into the middle of the front garden and took a deep breath, trying to calm down amid the flowers and the fat, droning bees. The annuals were at their full height and blooming furiously, as...
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Tim Farrington reviews “The Awful Mess”… and I freak out
I recently received an email with a lovely review of “The Awful Mess” from one of my favorite authors, Tim Farrington, who wrote the “The Monk Downstairs” — a book I love so much that I’ve gifted and...
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Our father? Our mother? Words matter
I was thinking about how much words matter this last weekend during my first vestry retreat. (Vestry, for those unfamiliar with the term, is the group of parishioners elected to attend to the business...
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Updates, Kobo deal, Goodreads giveaway
Bardwell’s Folly “Bardwell’s Folly” has been read by five beta readers now, and thanks to that feedback I’m making some good revisions. I’m hopeful this version will be done by the end of the week....
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Bringing a long-dead missionary to life (despite myself)
Last year I was asked by a friend to write a short monologue for Jessie Fremont Traver Moore, a woman who’d spent most of her adult life as a missionary in Assam, India. It was for an original theater...
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THE AWFUL MESS gets a wiki video treatment…
Not sure what to think about it, but I was invited to post this link to a video wiki of “13 Charming Books Set in Small Towns that Range from Friendly to Terrifying” that includes THE AWFUL MESS at #3...
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The writing life: Should we risk offending people, or not?
Last month, an article in the Romance Writers of America newsletter Romance Writers Report by Jennifer Fusco caused quite a bit of controversy by recommending that authors avoid controversy. It gave...
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Creating believable relationships: Who are your characters’ imagos?
My husband and I made it through 23 years of marriage before certain fundamental issues caused us to decide to part as friends. I doubt we would have made it anywhere close to that long if we hadn’t,...
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Technology, gay rights, the Confederate flag, and other cool ways to date...
It’s exhilarating to be living through so much change, especially when it seems to be going in the right direction. But what if your books become dated because of it? Earlier this month at the Glens...
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Adventures in Amazon keyword padding
by Sandra Hutchison Note: The specific keyword examples mentioned in this post are out of date now, because Amazon has changed the way keywords are input (possibly to cope with just this kind of...
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Blooming furiously before the frost: the usefulness of deadlines
She climbed into the middle of the front garden and took a deep breath, trying to calm down amid the flowers and the fat, droning bees. The annuals were at their full height and blooming furiously, as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tim Farrington reviews “The Awful Mess”… and I freak out
I recently received an email with a lovely review of “The Awful Mess” from one of my favorite authors, Tim Farrington, who wrote the “The Monk Downstairs” — a book I love so much that I’ve gifted and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our father? Our mother? Words matter
I was thinking about how much words matter this last weekend during my first vestry retreat. (Vestry, for those unfamiliar with the term, is the group of parishioners elected to attend to the business...
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