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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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Keeping a Secret
As a writer, how much do you talk about your work — and how much do you keep secret? I definitely err on the secret side. A very select few know about what story I am working on right now. Fewer still know what I am planning next. I sometimes wish this was different. Sometimes my work…
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2012
I hesitated and debated with myself on whether to do this, and finally decided that the Magic Mirror just wouldn’t be the same without a traditional — if belated — New Year post 🙂 I’ve been thinking: why does the New Year excite us so much — why does it inspire and scare us so? A…
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“Blue” and “Comfort” by Joyce Moyer Hostetter Reissued in Paperback: Another Double Giveaway!
Ah, I just can’t resist! My friend Joyce Moyer Hostetter, in celebration of the issuing of her TWO books in paperback, “Blue” and its sequel, “Comfort,” is circulating these two awesome book trailers. “Blue” is a middle-grade story about a girl who in 1944 “put on her overalls and became a man of the house,”…
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New Blog Spotlight: Introducing Bree and “The Magic Attic”
I decided to do something different this week. Instead of interviewing an author, reviewing a book, or sharing another glimpse into my writing journey, I would like to present to you a teenaged blogger from California, who goes by the name of “Bree,” at least online, reads YA books by the hundreds (well, she says…
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I am More Than My History
SIMPLE MATH I was answering a comment to last week’s blog post, when a totally revolutionary thought hit me. Specifically, my awesome writer friend Joyce and I were talking about how maybe I should write more Soviet novels one day, and I was telling her that maybe I will — but not soon — not yet. Writers are advised…
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Fork In the Road
If you have written several manuscripts — or read a bunch of books by the same author — you might notice everyone seems to have a bunch of recurring interests, or themes — different subjects, ideas, concepts that different people are constantly drawn to. So far, my themes seem to be, in no particular order: mirrors,…
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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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