Tenesha McGuire invites her great-grandmother to join an excursion to London’s Imperial War Museum. Tenesha, a chaperone for some high school students on their senior trip, wants her great-grandmother to tell them the fascinating stories of the London Blitz. But her great-grandmother won’t accompany her—too many bad memories. Memories that surprise Tenesha. Memories that will […]
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I just curated a Storybundle called The Fantasy Bundle of Bundles. You see, Storybundle is a bundle of ebooks by different writers on a theme. The concept behind this Storybundle is that each writer contribute a bundle of books. My main contribution is the entire Faerie Justice series in a compilation that you will never find […]
Continue ReadingAll spring we’ve been counseling writers who have come to realize that going wide with ebooks is not bringing in the kind of income that the writers had hoped for. The days off to all the retailers and making a small fortune are gone. Now, writers need to expand their horizons even more, doing other […]
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This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to to pick up a copy. You can buy copies in ebook. Here’s a link to the ebook on the WMG Books site, but you can get the ebook anywhere. […]
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This rather short list makes it look like I didn’t read much in June, but I did. I had some misfires (as you can see), and I read quite a few things that I didn’t think were worth recommending. And then there’s Kelley Armstrong… I binged the Kelley Armstrong Rockton/Haven’s Rock series until I caught […]
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I know many of you don’t go to Dean’s website, which means many of you miss some wonderful online writing tidbits as well as some excellent deals. I mention the tidbits, but today’s email is about the deals. We’re running a workshop sale in the doldrums of summer. We figure many of you don’t have […]
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I curated a Storybundle to help us all escape the nightmares of 2026. As I explained in an interview with Jamie Ferguson, one of the other participants in the bundle, sometimes an escape means going to another scary place. But sometimes it means going to a wonderful alternate timeline where things are much better. This […]
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This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to to pick up a copy. You can preorder copies from all online retailers. Here’s a link to the ebook. The second edition of The Write Attitude is quite different […]
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With school over (as of the first week of May), I have more time to read. I occasionally binged a novel. I’ve had some down days as the chronic health issues flared and on one lovely day, I read two entire novels, something I hadn’t done since the damn dental surgeries of 2023. It was […]
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Annie Reed and Dave Hendrickson invited me to participate in their summertime romance anthology, Sunkissed Summer. I love writing for anthologies, and as my life is getting less hectic, I have more time to do so. (I had hoped to be in their previous volumes, but time and attention allow that to be possible.) Sunkissed Summer features […]
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