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How to write significant detail and my plans for a meltdown
Over at the Debutante Ball this week, we’re talking about craft topics. Not, like, crocheting—which I can totally do, by the way—but writing craft topics. You can click on over to see what the other...
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Self-preservation in the face of self-promotion
Today’s my day over at the Debutante Ball, and our topic is self-promotion. Hoo, boy. I mean, I found some things to say, but I suppose I could also try to, you know, say something helpful. I wasn’t...
View ArticleHow I write: Do you know the word “ouroboros”?
This week on the Debutante Ball, we’re talking about books we wish we’d written. I had some standard answers. My non-standard answer is probably: the book I’m still writing. I wish I’d already finished...
View ArticleLeave room in the suitcase for books
Today’s my day on the Debutante Ball, where we’re talking about writing conferences. My post is basically a list of all the places I’m going to be this year. (I should point out that my husband and...
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March conferences: In like a lion, out also like a lion
I’ve been meaning to spend a little time on my adventures this month. March, they say. In fact, it’s almost April, and yet here we are, with weather that seems rather January in nature. But March: I...
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Blog Hop: What’s my writing process? It’s isn’t pretty.
Last week, my friend Lisa Alber tagged me to participate in this blog hop project. I don’t know how Lisa had the time to participate, since she was barely out of the launch week of her debut mystery,...
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How to support The Black Hour
At a conference I went to in March, my friend Catriona McPherson carried around her advanced reader copy of The Black Hour all day, cover out. Happy birthday to MEEEEEEE! It was the single best part of...
View ArticleChicago launch party for THE BLACK HOUR
1 1 Celebrated the launch of THE BLACK HOUR at Chicago’s Book Cellar, a fantastic Lincoln Square independent bookstore, July 19. Thanks to everyone who attended! Thanks to Suzi and the Book Cellar...
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The writing resolutions, 2015 style
This week I’ve seen about a hundred different stories about resolutions: how to set them, why they never work, how not to set them, why you’re wasting your time. You know, a lot of these stories have...
View ArticleLittle pretty things I found while writing the book
One of the fun things I’m doing now that I have some time to think: gathering my thoughts on some new projects. I’ll be talking to my agent soon about what ideas I have and which ones might be the best...
View ArticleThe most-read piece I’ve ever written
I once published a short story in Good Housekeeping, which goes to 26 million people worldwide. But I feel as though maybe an article that I wrote for Writers Digest online might be the most popular...
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Self-preservation in the face of self-promotion
Today’s my day over at the Debutante Ball, and our topic is self-promotion. Hoo, boy. I mean, I found some things to say, but I suppose I could also try to, you know, say something helpful. I wasn’t...
View ArticleHow I write: Do you know the word “ouroboros”?
This week on the Debutante Ball, we’re talking about books we wish we’d written. I had some standard answers. My non-standard answer is probably: the book I’m still writing. I wish I’d already finished...
View ArticleLeave room in the suitcase for books
Today’s my day on the Debutante Ball, where we’re talking about writing conferences. My post is basically a list of all the places I’m going to be this year. (I should point out that my husband and...
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March conferences: In like a lion, out also like a lion
I’ve been meaning to spend a little time on my adventures this month. March, they say. In fact, it’s almost April, and yet here we are, with weather that seems rather January in nature. But March: I...
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Blog Hop: What’s my writing process? It’s isn’t pretty.
Last week, my friend Lisa Alber tagged me to participate in this blog hop project. I don’t know how Lisa had the time to participate, since she was barely out of the launch week of her debut mystery,...
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How to support The Black Hour
At a conference I went to in March, my friend Catriona McPherson carried around her advanced reader copy of The Black Hour all day, cover out. Happy birthday to MEEEEEEE! It was the single best part of...
View ArticleChicago launch party for THE BLACK HOUR
1 1 Celebrated the launch of THE BLACK HOUR at Chicago’s Book Cellar, a fantastic Lincoln Square independent bookstore, July 19. Thanks to everyone who attended! Thanks to...
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The writing resolutions, 2015 style
This week I’ve seen about a hundred different stories about resolutions: how to set them, why they never work, how not to set them, why you’re wasting your time. You know, a lot of these stories have...
View ArticleLittle pretty things I found while writing the book
One of the fun things I’m doing now that I have some time to think: gathering my thoughts on some new projects. I’ll be talking to my agent soon about what ideas I have and which ones might be the best...
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