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I have regretfully decided to take a leave of absence from Magical Words. I love the site, I love participating in it (oh, how happy I was to be invited! I wanted so much to be part of a group writing blog!), but with my work deadlines, I’ve been struggling to keep up with my [...]
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This is, I hope, going to be a several-part series on developing your voice as a writer. It stems from a lecture I gave at a workshop a couple of years ago, and I hope it’ll be of some use to the Magical Words readers.
What is voice?
Voice is the distinctive style that tells you who [...]
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I had no idea you guys were going to make this so hard! I must have about six favorites, but I think Brianna Agnew may have hit the most poignant note with a stocking full of Christmas gifts for Billy Holliday from his whole family. *goopies* So, Brianna, if you want to email me (contact [...]
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This may be a bit of a catch-22 contest, as it presupposes you’ve read at least one of my books already. Still, it’s my contest and I’ll run it the way I want to, nyah.
The Prize: Your choice of either: 1. a signed copy of one of my novels, or 2. a PDF [...]
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One of the things you don’t (or I didn’t, anyway) particularly think about when you’re heading into a writing career is that at some point, if you’re successful, people are probably going to start asking you to consider blurbing their books.
This is awesome and alarming beyond belief. ZOMG! Somebody wants me to blurb their book! [...]
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This is not a post of much content.
For the first time I can remember, I’m pretty much writing two books in the same series back to back. This is mostly because I did two major revisions on the first book and don’t have time to go write something else before the second book is due.
It’s [...]