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Firsts
I remember when I made my first semi-pro short story sale. It was A Sorcerer By Any Other Name and I sold it to a small zine called Sorcerous Magazine back in 1996. I later sold the same story to Alexandria Digital Literature. That seems to be how it goes with my short fiction. It always ends up a reprint…
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The Lazy Writer’s Guide to Lazy Dinner
Despite popular belief, I’m actually not as domestic as I appear from random Facebook posts. I’m the queen of the microwave and I’m about as un-domestic (when it comes to cleaning etc…) as they come. I clean when absolutely necessary (i.e. company is coming), though I am a stickler about floors, sinks and toilets. Everything else is optional. It takes…
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Gotta Love Helmet
You gotta love some Helmet and their brilliant lyrics for Broadcast Emotion. Nothing in today’s top 40 can compete with this (lyrically speaking). I like the way you set yourself goals The blind ambition you sport like new clothes There’s nothing bold in the posture you wear It’s always stunning to show you care You’re so outspoken, the status quotient…
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2012 Winter Garden
So I think it’s time for a winter garden update. First let’s talk about Dwight the Mandrake. I mentioned in another post earlier this month how my nephew was taking care of Dwight and how Dwight was looking awesome when we got home from vacation. Then within a week, Dwight wasn’t looking nearly as good. I discovered it was because…
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Win a Free Book or an Amazon Gift Certificate!!
Here’s how it works: Send an email to swordarkeereon@gmail.com with the phrase “2012 Fiction Drawing” in the subject header. In the body of the email type whatever you like. I will take entries until November 30! On Saturday, December 1st, I will draw four names. If there are more than 50 people who enter, I’ll draw six names. Winners will…
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I Gotta Be Me….
So in this month’s Merry-Go-Round blog post we were asked to talk about who influenced us as a writer. Next to that, in parenthesis, it said: (i.e. who would you like to be compared to?) When I was a teenager back in the late 80’s the answer would have been, hands down, David Eddings. I idolized David Eddings. But that’s not…
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My Advice… Ad Vice?
Vices. Yes, another blogging prompt stolen from someplace else. Perhaps that’s a vice? The fact that I can’t always come up with my own blogging prompts? My prompt theft aside, let’s talk vices, shall we? I used to smoke. I used to smoke almost two packs a day! This coming March 27 it will be my fifth anniversary of being…
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Holidays
This month’s FM Blog Tour post was a writing prompt called Holidays. I actually ended up with Christmas as my posting date. So Merry Christmas! To those who celebrate other holidays – Happy Holidays! I am going to take a moment to to share some of my thoughts about the holidays with you. Rest assured I’m not awake as this…
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Baking Fun
While I may have never been a stellar cook (never a bad cook, but never one of those cooks people raved about) I’ve always loved baking. In fact, I’ve always fancied myself a pretty decent baker. Cookies and cakes… Mmmm. I have a fruit cake recipe that makes fruit cake haters into fruit cake lovers – that’s how delicious some of my cakes…
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Why Does Your Website Suck?
Dear Company/Government Agency We, the people, wanted to take a moment to ask all the big companies and government agencies like Secretary of State (pick a state, mine is Colorado and it blows), Internal Revenue Service, Xcel Energy, Xfinity, the USPS, and yes, even city water departments — Why does your website suck? It took you all long enough to get into the whole online bill pay…