Remember the feeling you got when you closed the back cover on a book that spoke to you? How you set it aside on your end table or night stand and lay back feeling amazed, traumatized, bewildered, and somehow changed? Monday, November 10, 2014. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.

Because Sarcastic Muse sounded too snarky. But if you missed the event, never fear- there are a few more signings already scheduled.

Breaking into the literary world. Friday, August 26, 2016. AND not ONLY did I make it into the contest, but Dawn Ius. as in Dawn Ius, author of Anne and Henry. Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Jack Kerouac said, It ain t whatcha write, it s the way atcha write it. I hope I m not besmirching my favorite from among the beats, but really, the most important thing is just atcha write it. To paraphrase a hackneyed old chestnut, a journey of a thousand pages begins with a single word. Words are the raw material of writers, stories are the paintings. Make your painting beautiful, make it dark, make it romantic, make it whatever you want but make it. Good info on how to use Scrivener.

Thursday, August 22, 2013. Bad news first! Lisseth and I are leaving The Book Paparazzi. Leaving of course this lovely blog with no one to run it. Our book tourishness will be essentially.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Read Authors of Color - A Resource List. Too I will try to note those.

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But love can be complicated, and I write that, too. In late August, twenty-year-old Eric Clark, a close family friend was severely injured by an IED in Afghanistan. My family met Eric when he was about ten years old where his father and I were both US Navy Sailors stationed in Hawaii. My kids have been close friends with Eric for nearly ten years. Eric is doing so much mor.