#HoldOnToTheLight is a depression awareness/suicide prevention/mental wellness blog campaign during September/October featuring dozens of SFF authors writing about related topics. Today I’ve got a guest post from my friend and fellow author Mindy Mymudes. Joseph Fern, age 27, of River Falls, died Jan. 10, 2012, at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. A memorial service will be held …
Perseverance. Perseverance is what helps you get back up when you’ve been knocked down. Perseverance is what keeps you going in the face of opposition, doubt, nay-sayers, mistakes, and (yes) success. I would argue that one of the most important parts in the development of a writer and…well anyone, really, is perseverance. This past …
Happy Sunday Everybody! Today I get to host one of the stops on Jennifer Estep’s Unraveled Blog Tour! How cool is that!! First, there’s a quick Q & A Session and, below that, I’ve got an excerpt from Unraveled. Be sure to check that out. To top off all that Awesome, be sure to make …
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Catching up This is going to be a brief post this week (assuming that it happens this week). The internet has been wonky and the “To-Do” list today has been looming, but I totally handled it. Like. A. Boss. Really. So, what have I been up to? Let me break it down for you. Chasing …
Hi there Everybody! Guess who gets to host one of the stops on David B. Coe’s Children of Amarid Blog Tour? I do! Woo Hoo! On top of that, David agreed to a little Q & A Session. How cool is that? So, without further ado, here is my conversation with David B. Coe. Me: …
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Passwords. Where I put my keys. Where I left my phone. Where I parked the car. What I went into a room for. That I’m alone when I’m speaking out loud. Song lyrics. That there’s bacon in the oven.* That I’ve still got coffee in my cup…and it’s gotten cold. To get up and move …
(To be sung to the tune of “A Pirate Looks at Forty” by Jimmy Buffet) Mother, mother blank page I have heard you call. I’ve wanted to ride on your potential since I was three feet tall. You’ve seen it all. You’ve seen it all. Watched the folk that wrote you switch from page to …
Today, I want to talk about something called “Crutch Words”. If you’d asked me about what those were prior to my Whirlwind* tour of conventions and writer’s retreats, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. I’d have had a good guess, maybe, but that’s about all it would have been. A Crutch Word is …
Well, this is new. A middle-of-the-week post? My schedule got all muddled over the weekend, so here we are. Right on the heels of ConCarolinas, I went down to Beautiful Lake Wylie, North Carolina for my yearly writer’s retreat. My writers group (We collectively refer to ourselves as the Roaring Writers) does this once a …
I got back from Balticon this year, I was on the ground for two days, and I took off again for… ConCarolinas ConCarolinas was the first convention I have ever attended and it is completely the fault of the Magical Words family – and I do not use the word “Family” lightly. Although I don’t live …