The New Year and You

January 2021 What a year, right? What was your biggest challenge this year? I got an autoimmune disease. Incurable but manageable with a terrifying regime of drugs. We lost two dogs and gained a puppy. I lost my job and got a really bad haircut. How about you? Are you doing any goals? Here are

TweetDelete review

I recently used the free version of TweetDelete. I tweet a lot of liberal trash talk, mostly as a lurker but I retweet with a vengeance! I have five traditionally published books and my editor requires that I tweet as part of my writer’s platform. It never bothered me to have my sweet romance tweets

Maas the Man

Reading or re-reading Writing the Breakout Novel is so enlightening after hitting my third published novel. I know I read this a ton of years ago, but I’m seeing new things even in the introduction. For example, in the foreward, for goodnss sake, Donald Maas says he took an informal survey of how readers chose

Formatting for fun

And profit.  I love to write. I crave writing when I’m sitting at my day job.  However, writing novels and even short stories is a whole other skill set than formatting a blog or website. Which I suck at. Really.    

Gearing up for Nanowrimo 2015

Thinking about nano is always such a terror ridden puke in your mouth event.  I never know what to write, which is really, really bad as I am the Municipal Liaison for the Fox Cities and a darned crappy one, if I say so myself.  I go to a bunch (alright a few) kickoffs and

Gearing up for Nanowrimo 2015

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