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Having some trouble with the laser focus again. As I lay in bed last night, mind spinning through major plot points and which details can be safely left out, I started to take a sharp left turn. Into rewrites for Something Beautiful. I’ve known since I finished the last draft of this book that I…
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The Linda Howard Award of Excellence Finalists are posted! Look! There I am under YA! (I admit that I can see why some people are addicted to this.) Okay. Time to FOCUS. Synopsis MUST be finished asap. It’s not that I don’t know what happens in the end. I do. It’s just that cramming it…
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I mentioned a while back that I was entering a contest on a whim. I might have also mentioned that I was nervous about it because I’ve only ever entered a few and I have never gotten a combined lukewarm reaction – readers love it or hate it. I won one a few years back…
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Now that the end (of HOF) is near, I think it’s time to write the synopsis. This part of the book is always so hard for me. Characters are living and breathing and bossing me around. I’m wanting Edwin to do something uncharacteristic just because Jen wants him to, not because HE wants to. Obviously…
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This one is awesome. I guess that’s the second book trailer I’ve seen now that made me actually want to go out and buy the book. I have to admit that Tantalize has had my attention for a while just on the basis of it being a young adult gothic fantasy by an author whose…