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Pitch for my novel
In slightly under two weeks I will be attending the Colorado Gold Writing Conference, during which I’ll find out if my submission, Second Sun, won first place in the speculative fiction category of the Colorado Gold Writing Conference. Definitely nice to be a finalist and all, but I did have an “Oh, crap” moment when…
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Hortense Montgomery, Zombie Hunter, Gets Spiced [partial draft]
Because I’m lazy/working on getting my site fully moved over to my new host/working on a longer, More Serious post (which nevertheless involves a cartoon), I’m pulling a post that has been languishing in my draft folder for over six months. Maybe eventually I’ll come back to it and do the whole story and recipe…
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3 songs currently receiving heavy play in my Spotify
Yes, I’m totally phoning it in this week. Novel is once again eating my brain (and the necessity of generating a summary for a critique session I’m going to attend at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold conference this fall, though once done and polished I’ll probably post that here). I’m also starting to…
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3 of my favorite lines from my WIP
Herewith, three of my favorite lines from my work in progress, in no particular order, and including only enough context for the lines themselves to make sense. 1. “It’ll be all right.” The knife-wielding shadows in his eyes said he knew it was a lie, but neither of us admitted it. 2. I waved expansively…