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New Furbabies in the family…

My first author bio mentioned an ancient and grizzled cat… who then promptly died at the ripe old age of 15, leaving me with no pets to include in my bio. The actual heartache of losing a companion I’ve had with me for a huge chunk of my life aside, to be truthful the house…

Final Revisions

I’m in the last leg of this journey for Book 1, finally. I’m within days of finishing up major revisions to the manuscript, which will include adding a new chapter near the end. Otherwise it has mostly consisted of improving the “stitching” that holds the text together, and working on strengthening my characters and their…

How Many People Does it Take to Write a Book?

It turns out, a lot. I spent countless hours writing what is, right now, a 122k word second draft of my first novel. And yet now I have six beta readers, an editor, a sensitivity reader, a cover artist, and I haven’t even considered whether or not I will ever be able to afford to…

So, I want to be a writer…

My first book is in beta and sitting with my editor. Naturally, after pouring over it a dozen times and finding nothing wrong with it, I sent it out to my beta readers and then went over it another dozen times and found about a million- nay, a zillion- problems that need immediate attention. Except…


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