Category: Blog
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Are you listening or are you hearing?
Last fall I met a published writer who impressed me with his knowledge, his approachability, and his friendliness. While the main genre that he writes in isn’t my thing, I bought an anthology he was in and I was reasonably impressed with his skills. He reached out to me on Facebook and friended me. Nice!…
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I’m not Ginger Rogers.
To be blunt, this has been a summer straight out of Dante’s Inferno. In late June, my father-in-law was admitted to hospice, passing from this world just before the July 4th holiday. I did what I needed to do to get through it. Love the spouse. Fly the child home, family notifications, funeral arrangements, meetings…
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“What’s Your Shame?”
I was asked this yesterday at a conference. Now, to put it in perspective, I was one member of an audience, he wasn’t asking me specifically. But he did ask it just that way. “What’s your shame?” Because I deal with the effects of shame daily, the question hit me, and I started thinking. We…
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Literary Privilege
So here today’s thought, and it’s a rant I’ve had for a while. Recently I attended a writer’s conference where they offered a seminar on how to pitch your book. The seminar leader- a local publisher- started it off by saying she’s read science fiction and fantasy, but she doesn’t sell it. This was not…