My newest book offering TRAILBLAZER: A Guide for Magnificent Misfits should go live at Amazon within 72 hours. I’m excited. Note to my three beta readers, Heidi Smith, Sherry Edwards Sutton, and Ilonka Liska: you will be receiving comp copies from me sometime after the first of the year, so don’t buy copies unless […]
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Happy Winter Solstice! Within days, daylight will last a few minutes longer and we will be able to sense “the light at the end of the tunnel.” I’m looking forward to that… I’m trying to imagine what the winter solstice was like for so many cultures, especially in the northern hemisphere at higher
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Facebook IM/DM has seen the last of me. I can’t get the screen that opens up and obscures about half of the rest of my monitor image to go away afterward, so I am no longer opening or responding to IM/DM messages or doing video visits on FB. So if you need to reach
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Jackie came over tonight to show me that HO HO HO Hope says “Merry Christmas!” Oh, the things we put our pets through… Hope doesn’t mind, though! She’s a very good sport about it. So were my first goats (2010) Laverne and Shirley… … and Deaken *sigh*
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Jazzy, my oldest goat (at least 14, probably older), died overnight. We knew it was coming, so I had been out there with her a lot, grooming and massaging her and sitting in the sunshine with her. She ate well yesterday and the day before, but there was no question that she was on
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Will someone solve a mystery for me? My 17th title, TRAILBLAZER: A Guide for Magnificent Misfits, will be out in early 2024 and I’m wondering how many of my usual readers will buy and read it. I wonder this because all I usually hear from my regulars is, “Are you going to write another
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I’m halfway finished editing a 186K word sci fi novel. It has taken 51 hours to date to do 217 pages, an average of 4.7 pages per hour. That’s pretty darned good for the considerable amount of tweaking and massaging I’m doing. Heavy copy editing consists of 2–5 ms pgs/hour. Usually an editor charges
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Woo HOO! I’ve just completed editing and proofreading the first 1/3 of Bob Brantner’s sci fi novel. It’s truly a page-turner. I expected to get faster as I went along, but the manuscript has various repeating issues which require the same dedication to detail, nuance, and precision, so now I think it’s going to
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For the past two days I’ve been walking again, after a month or so of letting it slide. As the days get shorter, colder and wetter here in the Pacific Northwest, I end up staying indoors more and doing less outdoor work and other useful exercise, so I bring my rower in from the
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… and I haven’t felt very Christmassy since before COVID, so this is a big f’g deal, as VP Biden said before a hot mic to POTUS Obama when the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed.(Now we just need to get Medicare for All and VP Harris can
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