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  • Editing Tip #33

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    Writing A Page Turner: Pt 4~ Are You Challenging Your Characters or Cheating Them? When a reader opens your book and reads the first page they should be immediately caught up in tension – not necessarily action (because not all… Read More ›

  • Review: A Rip in the Veil

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     A Rip in the Veil                             Author: Anna Belfrage Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars Highly Recommended. Genre: Historical Romance/Time Travel A Rip in the Veil is the first of five books in The Graham Saga –… Read More ›

  • Truth & Beauty

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    I feel there is an essential truth in the works that writers produce, especially those pieces that make it to publication. There is an inherent beauty, both dark and delicate, that our words bring to life. As readers, we don’t… Read More ›

  • Author Platforms & Portfolios Pt.4

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    How Important is Your Writing Portfolio? This is a frequently asked question by new and aspiring writers and as with everything in this business the answer is not black and white. The simple answer is very important. The honest answer… Read More ›

  • Scandalous Poetry by Jim Scott

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    His Secret Mistress May 5, 2014Blogged Passages Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.”  ….. George C. Lichtenberg   His Secret Mistress This is a tale of an… Read More ›

  • Engineering Cynicism

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    Writerly Rant #32 by Mikael Carlson, Author. The United States of America has always been a nation of people possessing the ability to engineer great things. The Hoover Dam, Mount Rushmore, the Manhattan Project, Apollo moon landings, the Internet… the… Read More ›

  • Editing Tip #32

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    Writing A Page Turner: Pt 3 Are Your Readers Engaged with Dynamic Main Characters? Nothing is more disappointing than reading an amazing book blurb, getting excited about meeting the characters and being swept away by the plot only to face… Read More ›

  • Review: Desecrated

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    Desecrated: Book 2 in The Saga of Ukumog                             Author: Louis Puster III Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars Highly Recommended. Genre: High Fantasy/Supernatural Review by M.J. Moores originally for Readers Favorite Desecrated, the 2nd book in… Read More ›

  • Author Platforms & Portfolios Pt. 3

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    Publicity Tip #31 What Part Do Your Public Appearances Play? Having a book launch party and signing a few books at your local books store should not be the end of your public appearances.  It’s quite the opposite in fact… Read More ›

  • Day 234 – Dandelions

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    The beauty is of this poem is in the simplicity of the perception of the flower. What to many of us in our older-life is an irritating week, Charlotte turns to with the eyes of a child makes the Dandelion… Read More ›