This last fortnight, I have been working on the two prequels for Book 2 of the Rift Bloodlines series. Amelia’s story came out around 8k and Mitchel’s came out around 9k. Both longer than I’d planned. But the end result was worth those extra words. I wrote prequel shorts to each of the Rift Bloodlines […]
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And another month whooshes by… But I finished my fourth edit (yes, it’s been a lot) on Rift Bloodlines 1🥳. Buried by Earth went from 8k to 24k to 47k and now to 69k. One day, maybe, I will get it right on the first and second round… But… Here we are. I’m really satisfied
September updates and Rift Bloodlines book 1 Revision is done! Read More »
WORD OF THE YEAR My word of the year for 2022 is BALANCE! This is the first time I’ve done a word of the year. It’s never been something…
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My Goals for 2021 were a bit of a washout, except for writing. That was the one area I built a regular habit, and tracked great progress….
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Hello Guys and Gals, It’s been a busy year already, and I’ve been hard at work writing, editing, and spinning ideas. So many idea’s. There just is not enough time in the day to complete everything I want. Ernie Smith and the Seven Deadly Sins As Ernie’s first story – Finding Death’s Scythe – gets
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As we head into 2021 I am looking back at last year’s goals, what went well, what didn’t. One of the repeating themes I am seeing is I tried to bite off too many varied project worlds. All in all it was a good first year back to writing, and one that has kept me
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With the chaos of NaNoWriMo I missed a few announcements about free stories of mine that are available. To be Remembered – Podcast for Alone in a Room with Invisible people – Rebecca read my little flash story beautifully for this spooky edition of the podcast. Listen to it, and a bunch of other authors,
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National Novel Writing Month-or NanoWriMo for short-is a challenge to write 50000 words in the 30 days of November. It’s a hard challenge to complete. I have done it before. I won five times over the years. Last year was one of those, and it was how I got started writing again after so many
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This month has been busy all around, partly due to a few work commitments which meant I had to travel. Writing-wise, I have been bouncing between two projects, Wishing for Truths, my next standalone short story, and Earth Bound, which is a Paranormal Romance Novella. Both of these were existing published short stories that I
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I thought writing a series would be the same as writing a novel; I was wrong. There are so many more factors that you need to focus on, and you need to know about when you write the first book. A lot of those factors might already exist in a book, you just use them
