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The Call of Adventure
Here I am crafting my latest story, mostly plotting right now. Using myths and age-old storytelling tricks to bend and twist my emerging book into shape. If you read Joseph Campbell’s “Hero With A Thousand Faces,” then you may know about how every story is at heart really an adventure, with a usually reluctant hero facing…
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15 Versatile Blogs
Oh, man, this is overwhelming. There are so many awesome blogs out there. But as part of receiving my own sweet award, I had to pick 15. Ah, just the research has my head spinning. Seriously, the web is just buzzing with a gazillion conversations going on at once. Which mostly I think is wonderful.…
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Versatile Blogger: Moi?
I am sorry I’ve been away — too long — and the worst part is — due to my crazy superstitions (see my previous post), I can’t even blog about it! Argh! In the meantime, while I was running around doing stuff, a few marvelous things occurred in the blogosphere. Marvelous thing number one: I…
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New List!
I am putting together a new “Best” list for you guys, and I need some advice to get me started. This one will include one of my favorite genres — and I think one with a lot of potential — historical fantasy fiction. I am looking for the AWESOMEST literature for young adults that takes…
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Surprise!
Everyone loves surprises. Flowers from your husband, an email from your agent saying they want to represent you, a character in your book who suddenly starts talking to you in this confident voice, who doesn’t love these, right? But even small surprises can be good for the soul. A book that takes your breath away with a twist…
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Winners and a little break
Hi everyone, and thanks for participating in this summer’s many giveaway contests. The winners of this latest one are Sarah Pearson (who won a signed copy of “The Sirenz!”) and Colleen Kosinski, who won “The Bestest. Ramadan. Ever.” Congrats, ladies — I’ll be writing to you for addresses shortly. In other news, you guys won’t…
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An Editor for Six Days: What I’ve learned and how I hope to apply it to my life as a writer
This post is a bit overdue, but I really wanted to get it out to you, so here goes… Three weeks after my Patch.com experience… It was a blizzard of a week — six days, actually — of “babysitting” a news website for www.patch.com, a hyperlocal news organization now owned by AOL. For six days…
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The Grace Lin Giveaway Winner
Thanks again to everyone who participated in last week’s giveaway. I know some of you wanted to win so very badly — in retrospect, I should have gotten more copies. Darn! To make the winner’s selection as random as could be, I had my daughter pull a name from a box: And the winner is .…
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Winners of the BFF giveaway, a too-short long weekend, and 13 days left of school…Heeeelp!
Hi everyone! First, thanks for participating in last week’s BFF giveaway. The signed copy of Joyce Moyer Hostetter’s http://joycemoyerhostetter.blogspot.com/ first book “Best Friends Forever” is going out to Janet Stoltzfus and Clara Gillow Clark claragillowclark.blogspot.com . I will be e-mailing you ladies shortly for your addresses! In other news, did any of you feel like the Memorial Day weekend…
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Five Things I Love About Journalism
So sorry I haven’t been here much lately. I haven’t forgotten this blog — my favorite hobby! It’s just that I have been busy not only writing, always writing, but also Changing My Life. I am here for a quick announcement: looks like I am getting back into journalism, folks! For now I am freelancing, mostly for…
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