Tag: writer's life
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Accepted!
It’s always exciting to open an email and discover a short story submission was accepted. That always gives a writer a boost. I’m thrilled to announce my story Slide Rock will be included in the next Pikes Peaks Writer’s Anthology. This will be the third PPW Anthology for me, talk about an honor! The theme…
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How To Write Rainbows
We’ve had rain and some amazing rainbows in the high country recently. I’m always inspired by those striped miracles flashing across a rainy gray sky, but writing something that captures their magnificence, well… They’re a promise of evil washed away and better days to come. A story as old as time, told over and over.…
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Rainy Days and Dirt Roads
The moment when two of my favorite things, storms and dirt roads, come together is irreplaceable. The rain pattering on the windshield. The thunks of mud from the tires. The drama in the sky and the play of light and shadow on the landscape. My little writer’s brain fills with scenes of cowboys in bright…
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Author Adjacent
My awesome readers know I haven’t published a novel in three years. My first impulse is to offer some lame apology but I won’t because there’s nothing to be sorry for. Events over the last few years effected all of us. When my life took some turns and I turned with it. Publishing and keeping…
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Tiny Writer’s studio – part 3
I lost track of time since the last post about the studio. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track here, it’s more about nature’s timing: the lengthening of the days, the turning of the seasons. The new growth of spring turning into the full bloom of summer. The studio has been finished more than half a…
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Tiny writer’s studio – part 2
Part 2 of the building of my tiny writer’s studio. Click here for part one. In keeping with the KISS theory (Keep It Simple, Stupid), which always seems to work best for me, my husband and I decided the new studio would be pretty minimal. Many years ago, my father and I build some cabinets…
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New Release
Orion’s Chance My partner in crime, TR Kerby, and I are happy to announce our second novel. It was a journey with a lot of laughs along the way. The writing process included a mathematics refresher, a Nikola Tesla history lesson, and a crash course in gene therapy and virus vectors. All tied up with…
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Tiny Writer’s Studio-Part 1
It had to be small, warm, and welcoming. It had to be rustic and charming. It had to be off-grid friendly and work with our solar system. It had to be mobile so if I move I can take it with me. And it had to be cheap. Wait… bad choice of terms. Well within…