Someone I don’t know sent me a link to someone he believes to be Eugene Kelley, so I sent a message this morning to see if it is, indeed, him. If so, he’s an attorney and his son may be, too. I think De would love knowing that. He’d be proud. I know my […]
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’24 is a big election year. I will be going into “political mode” then to influence as many people as I can to vote blue. Trump-lessly! That’s right. I will not be mentioning The Former Guy at all. He will have enough bad publicity in 2024– given his many trials and 91 felony
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There has been a TRAILBLAZER hiccup that I’m waiting on the KDP folks to help me with, so it won’t be out as soon as I hoped. Stay tuned! I got a message that although the manuscript and covers are clean as a whistle, there is some content in it that is similar and
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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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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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