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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Dragons Lure w/misty

David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

And Now For Something Completely Different

I was supposed to write an essay for the MW blog for today, but something strange happened. I found myself thinking back on things others have said recently, and things I’ve said recently, and for some reason every time I sat down at my computer to write an essay (mainly Friday), this story insisted on [...]

Thinking long term

I was taking part in a chat recently where the topic of trends came up: what’s selling right now, what are editors and agents looking for, what do readers want, what’s hot?  Before I started writing The Forest of Hands and Teeth (my first published book), this was a HUGE topic of interest to me [...]

More on Cons

To build on Misty’s post yesterday (and maybe steal some more of Stuart’s thunder {grinning evilly}) I’d like to share my view on what a Con offers attendees—other than just pure fun. There is always that. In fact, as you read, add the world fun to the top of each list. But a con offers [...]

The Great Satan Part 1

Antagonists 
The Great Satan…
Or… The Axis of Evil
Or… The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Or… The BBUs

Despite the subtitles this is not a post about religion or politics. I was brought up Southern and according to my mawmaw, “We don’t talk about things like that, Punkin…”

((Which is one reason why slavery, the genocide of the [...]

After the Mania

Last week, I shared with readers a vision of the manic phase that hits me during the pre-creative process of writing. The *I have an idea, now what?* phase.  A lot has happened since then in the creative process. The idea found a direction and an outlet in a 4 page, single spaced outline, and [...]

Holding Lightning / The Big Bang

Before you think I’m nuts (I am, but I get paid for most of it) the following blog is mostly tongue in cheek. Sometimes readers forget that I write fiction, and that means that I have a tendency toward hyperbole. Not that I did that here. Nope. No way. (grins)
Blog starts……..now.

I like writing. I mean, [...]