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More Doll Wrecks

June 19, 2011

Since it’s Fathers Day, I could do something on power tools, but no, I’m going to do a blog on children (They make fathers, after all) well, more specifically fake children. Also known as dolls. Those of you who know…

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Finding the perfect fantasy name

June 4, 2011

Dave Farland, fantasy author extraordinaire, says that authors should never just choose their fantasy names randomly. They need to have resonance. Therefore, to come up with a good fantasy name for your character/place/animal group/whatever-the-heck-you’re-naming you need to have a process.…

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Random things I’ve learned while researching Hunters and Hunted

May 23, 2011

The cool thing about writing is that I’m always learning something new–whether I want to or not. This is because my characters have much more interesting lives than I do. They travel around, have talents, hobbies, stuff like that. I’m…

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More Book Trailer Music

May 13, 2011

It’s time to make a book trailer for the next book in the queue. I’ve spent two days listening to over a hundred and fifty different sound tracks and have learned one very important thing. When you listen non stop…

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Vote for the Worst Song Pick-up Lines: The Enrique Award

April 25, 2011

At my last writing critique group, we were sitting around talking about bad song lyrics. My friend, Melinda, told me that Enrique Iglesias’s song I want to Love You Tonight actually was called I want to–insert the crassest term you…

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Book launch photos and fairy visitors

April 16, 2011

It always cracks me up to see pictures of myself while I’m presenting. I’m sure these facial expressions made sense at the time, but looking at them after the fact, you have to wonder what I was saying.Here I am…

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April 13, 2011

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My Unfair Godmother is here!

April 12, 2011

Or at least it should be. If it’s not, you should stand around your local bookstore and in a loud voice say, “I demand you get me a copy of My Unfair Godmother forthwith!” It’s 12:35 AM. Just for the…

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Give-away and Very Cool Book Trailer

March 29, 2011

Okay, yes, I know I’ve sort of messed up the whole orderly system of give-aways that I was trying to do. I’ve learned that one shouldn’t do give-aways when one is traveling around the country as you never know what…

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Internet Problems

March 26, 2011

Just for the record, I wanted to let you know I tried to pick a winner last night or rather, at 4:00 a.m. That was the time we finally got situated in our hotel room after our flight was delayed…

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My Unfair Godmother ARC giveaway/ weigh in on the song

March 1, 2011

I’m having a book trailer done for My Unfair Godmother, and I have to say it’s going to be awesome. I’m having special effects. Things sparkle. I can hardly wait to show it to you. But first I need to…

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Top Ten Jury Duty excuses

February 23, 2011

I have to say that some people use some pretty unimaginative excuses for getting out of jury duty. Things like, “I can’t speak English.” And “It would create a financial hardship.” And “I’m a police officer.” Come on, people. It’s…