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May 02, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
Early last week as I was working on my new book, Almighty Whispers in Our Souls , the prequel to No Sensible People , I started to get one of those emotional kicks in the stomach from a character I . . .
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May 01, 2009 07:28 AM EDT --
When I was writing my novel, No Sensible People I looked to read fiction that would draw me closer to my own story. I picked Faith Sullivan's The Cape Ann and The Empress of One , Ellen Foster . . .
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May 01, 2009 07:04 AM EDT --
I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to submit press releases, but I finally wrote two of them last night and submitted them. Hopefully they will both be accepted and will actually help sales. It's . . .
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April 29, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
Think you know Joan Crawford? Think again. I thought I knew Joan. I loved "Mommie Dearest" and "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" so I figured Peter Joseph Swanson's "The Joan . . .
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April 27, 2009 07:27 AM EDT --
I had a pretty good writing weekend this weekend. My blog went over pretty well, and I wrote a movie review along with a couple thousand words on my new novel on Sunday afternoon, and successfully got . . .
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April 26, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
Meet Bianca. She's a wonderful girl, pretty brunette, former missionary and nurse, and great with kids. Unfortunately, she's also in a wheelchair and has a few other health problems. But that . . .
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April 25, 2009 10:34 AM EDT --
It turned out that last week, not long after I posted my blog about heading to my college Alma Mater, that the trip was canceled due to a medical emergency in my friend’s family. Since I don’t have . . .
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April 22, 2009 02:12 PM EDT --
I have two recent articles that go along with Earth Day -- and green living in general.
How to be Empowered by the Sun from Associated Content
How to Light the World With Solar . . .
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April 18, 2009 12:58 PM EDT --
This coming Monday, I will be heading to Marshall, MN to Southwest Minnesota State University to celebrate the life of one of my writing mentors, Bill Holm who passed away in February. I have spent more . . .
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April 04, 2009 11:44 AM EDT --
I'm a big baby of a writer by nature. I want to write what I want, when I want, how I want, and then I want everyone to go read what I've written and tell me how brilliant it is -- how . . .
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March 28, 2009 04:13 PM EDT --
Last Sunday I decided to put all the pressures of "trying to be a writer" aside and took my mini-laptop to the coffee shop to write away from the distractions of home. There was no reliable . . .
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March 21, 2009 02:43 PM EDT --
Okay, I'm in Minnesota so there's still some leftover chill in the air, and the chance of snow rearing it's head sometime in April is still pretty likely, but officially it is spring and . . .
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March 21, 2009 11:14 AM EDT --
After being a prepay cell phone customer for a few years, my family's needs were changing. My son would be starting college, my daughter needed to be free to talk to her friends when she wanted without . . .
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March 14, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Last week my book club met. We read The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson, which was very good-- although difficult to get through the beginning. The narrator is less than . . .
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March 07, 2009 11:54 AM EST --
So the weekend is here and I find myself with a large laundry list of things to do. Laundry included among them. I also need to go to the pet store to restock guinea pig supplies. Go to the grocery . . .
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March 04, 2009 08:15 AM EST --
Yes, I know. It sounds too good to be true. But if you live in the continental US, you can receive, via mail, a copy of No Sensible People. Once you write a short review on Gather -- and if you're . . .
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March 03, 2009 08:12 PM EST --
I want to send my book on tour and I need your help. I don't currently have the time or resources to go with my book on tour, so my "baby" will be heading out on it's own via . . .
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February 28, 2009 10:53 AM EST --
On Wednesday evening, I attended a reading for Elissa Elliott's new book, Eve: A Novel of the First Woman at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis . As with many author readings, . . .
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February 21, 2009 12:46 PM EST --
Yes, I have been elusive in my blogging for a while now, as I've been trying to get a rhythm going with a little more "practical" writing, on eHow and now Associated Content . . .
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February 17, 2009 09:04 AM EST --
In an effort to diversify and expand my freelance career I am starting to actually use my Associated Content account. I have a recipe currently being reviewed, and the following article is published exclusively . . .
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