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Book Review: “Quitters Never Win: My Life in UFC” by Michael Bisping
It might sound strange to say it, but Quitters Never Win: My Life in UFC by Michael Bisping and Anthony Evans gave me all the feels. I laughed. I cringed. I cried (just a little bit). And I loved what a softie Bisping really is when it comes to the people he cares about. You…
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Unintended Learning – It’s a Thing
As a writer, it’s my job to be inside the heads of up to a dozen people at a time. I must think like they think and know what they know. The obvious problem with that is I don’t know everything my characters know. Now what? Research to the rescue! My current work in progress…
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Keep Going
My writing and publishing reference library is always growing. I have no shortage of books to read and information to gather. On top of that, I have, you know, the whole internet to help me figure things out. Yet, even with all of that, this whole writing and publishing thing still sort of feels like…
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Knowing When to Accept Help
Sometimes it’s not easy being married to a guy who moonlights as a career coach. The other day we were out running errands and the topic of my writing came up. I was explaining my ever-changing goals for the stories I write. Some days I definitely want to publish them. Other days I just want…
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2021 – The Second Half
I’m not going to lie, like it was for most people, 2020 was sort of the year that didn’t happen. I felt like we were stuck in a time loop of suck. I told myself I was going to be productive. I had all this down time and no excuses for why I couldn’t get…
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None of My Business
Someone told me once that it was none of my business what other people think of me. I thought that was a little harsh. After all, I wanted people to like me. I started messing around with writing fiction back in 2017. I wasn’t serious about it, and it was more for the fun of…
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Character Vision Boards

Raise your hand if you love Pinterest! 🙋♀️ Having Pinterest boards is like having access to a whole bunch of other lives. The lives where I can craft all the things and write all the books and do all the remodeling and… well, you get the idea. Pinterest is a place where my imagination runs…
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Book Review: “Crafting Category Romance” by Amy Lane
As a writer I am always in a quest to improve at my craft. I have a small reference library devoted to it, filled with books I use over and over again. The newest addition to the reference bookshelf is “Crafting Category Romance: The Art of Fiction Haiku” by Amy Lane. The reviews I read…