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Somehow, the vast majority of the people with whom I work did not know that I had written and sold a novel. I don’t really know how they missed it, since I wasn’t what you’d call reticent about the subject. My book comes out next week, and I have signings [...]
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C E Murphy 
My thought process just now: Tuesday! It’s Tuesday! I’m supposed to blog on Tuesdays! What am I going to blog about? Ack! Ack! Ack!
This was followed by, “Duh. HOUSE OF CARDS is out today. Obviously today’s blog is about shameless self-promotion.”
Actually, I really hate that phrase. I think it [...]
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David B. Coe 
Expanding a bit on Misty’s wonderful post the other day, “What Drugs Were You On When You Wrote This?”….
There are lots of attitudes I encounter with respect to the kind of writing I do, ranging from the general snobbery directed at genre novels by writers and readers of so-called Literary Fiction, to the less offensive [...]
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David B. Coe 
Slight mix-up this week with the blogging days, and so I didn’t get to post earlier in the week. Hence, a Friday post…
People often ask me what I believe to be the hardest part of writing. The glib, noncommittal response I usually give is that there are as many answers to this as there are writers. Some of us struggle [...]
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Misty Massey 
Long ago, when I was a shy newbie writer with only a few short stories under my belt, I took the plunge and joined a writing critique group. At the time, we were composed of two retired gentlemen who wrote westerns and science fiction, one teenaged poet, one published mystery novelist and me. The first [...]
Fantasy: Fluff or Social Commentary.
Lots of stuff to say this week. I’m starting a day early offline because of that. Wordy, ain’t I?
My Alter Ego, hereafter referred to as AE, went to a book conference this past weekend. In the new RV which I lovelovelovelove. (Nice queen bed instead of the narrow twins in the old RV, closet space [...]