Heart on Fire

  • Heart on Fire WON the Linda Howard Award of Excellence in the YA category!! I am really thrilled that this story seems to be hitting it’s mark, and while I still have some serious rewriting to do before it’s ready to go on submission, I am so glad to have a well respected contest to…

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  • This Just In…

    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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  • No Contest. Bad Cessie.

    So I don’t know what I was thinking, but I was going to enter my wip in the Stiletto this year. I am almost halfway done with it, and I pretty much know how it ends – and I thought, gee, some feedback on it might be good at this point – a contest might…

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  • Progress Meter

    I know I called this post “progress meter,” but I’m so tired right now that I don’t even want to take the time to upload the html, so let us imagine a widget, which I may or may not update later for real: I hit page 127 of the new ms. That’s almost halfway, I think. W00t! Not…

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