Craft

***Winner Announced*** Win a Mary Buckham Online ‘Pacing’ Class and Amazon Giftcard!

February 26, 2011

EDITED TO ADD: And the WINNER IS:  Kim Bowman! Congrats Kim!  I’ll be getting in touch with you to get everything set up. For everyone else, thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate the nice messages.  I had so much fun, this won’t be the last contest I hold, so stay tuned  If you didn’t [...]

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Get Your 2011 Goals Here!

January 1, 2011

Goals are Dreams with Deadlines I’m not sure exactly where I heard the above, so I don’t know where to give credit, but it is one of my most favorite ‘kick your butt into gear’ quotes – and a perfect way to begin the New Year. I prefer goals to resolutions or dreams.  Just dreaming/ [...]

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Episode 10 – RWA Nationals… Hello Orlando!

August 8, 2010

On Today’s show, there is no guest.  Instead, you will hear only me, expounding upon the greatness that was the Romance Writers of America 30th annual conference, held at the Swan and Dolphin resort in Orlando FL. The awesomeness of this event cannot be told with mere words – but I try, darn it.  The [...]

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Dear Heavens… The Rejection!

February 18, 2010

A few days ago, I received what I consider my first ‘real’ rejection for one of my stories.  (Yay, I popped my… nevermind…) So, after a few tears and some blubbering on the phone to family, I took a deep breath and a step back. My story was for an open call from Samhain, one [...]

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Guest Blog by Amber Scott

January 31, 2010

Five Lessons Indie Press Taught Me: 1. Write For Yourself. I sit at my laptop, hands on the keyboard, frozen by the thought, Have I gone too far? What would an editor think of that? Or, worst of all, What would Uncle Bill think? Editors, agents and a few family members are predominantly who make [...]

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Guest Blog by Ann Charles

January 24, 2010

When the Going Gets Tough… (and other “tried and true” phrases) A while ago I spent some time on a podcast with our lovely host, Danielle Monsch, talking about a multitude of things, most of which had to do with writing. When all was said and done, we’d had plenty of laughs, but she brought [...]

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Episode 2 – Julia Hunter, VP of the Greater Seattle chapter of RWA

January 9, 2010

On today’s show, we were very fortunate to have Julia Hunter, law enforcement officer extraordinaire, VP of the Greater Seattle chapter of RWA, and the founder of the Write at Sea retreat! (The hardships we writers go through to improve our craft…) Julia told us about how she founded Write at Sea – this year [...]

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