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On story ideas: I must have a very creative guardian angel!
I honestly wonder from time to time if I simply have a very creative guardian angel. I say this because my ideas for my stories come to me, for the most part, out of nowhere or from odd places. For instance, the original inspiration for a resistance group fighting against a sorcerer who’s taken over…
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Sunday Reflection 5: The sufferings of this present time
Today’s second reading is one of my favorite passages in all of the Pauline epistles. “Brothers and sisters: I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.” One of my favorite saints, St. Teresa of Avila, used to say that to those who…
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Reflections after an Amazon KDP Select Free Promotion
I just ran a KDP Select promotion this past week–where Amazon allows anyone to download a copy of the Kindle version of your book for free. It went all right, when all was said and done–certainly, it could have gone much worse! I was hoping for more expose through free downloads than I received, but…
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Free Promo Winding Down: New Five Star Reviews and a Request for your Help
Today is the FINAL DAY to download YA fantasy sword and sorcerer adventure, The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope, for free on Kindle. (Link to the Kindle page to download for FREE is HERE) I wanted to share two new five star reviews from Amazon before spilling my heart out a little! The first…
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Thankful Thursday: Thankful for fiction that reminds me my struggles have meaning and purpose
It’s nothing new to hear that it’s only when we leave our comfort zone that we grow. That it is our struggles and failures that stretch, mold, mature, and improve us. Yet, it is true. Our sufferings and stumblings not only reveal who we are, but if we let them, they can make us better…
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On having multiple WIPs
I never used to have multiple WIPs (works in progress) at a time–at least, never for long. When I wrote and published the first editions of the Herezoth trilogy, I did so one book at a time. But then I took them all down years ago, entered and left religious life, and now I am…
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Sméagol and Gollum market my free promo
SMEAGOL AND GOLLUM MARKET MY FREE PROMO Sméagol: Marketings? What’s marketings, precious? Gollum: Nasty work, yes… Goblins’ work. Asking people to buy things. Sméagol: but goblins never ask … Gollum: You’re right. It’s below the dignity of goblins! It’s the work of NASTY LITTLE HOBBITSES Sméagol: oh NO, precious! No, not that! Gollum: What has…
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Character Spotlight: Kansten the Lovable Badger
Yes, it’s one last character spotlight in honor of this week’s FREE PROMO OF The Crimson League, the Fight for Hope. (Download it here for Kindle, for FREE). No, Kansten Carder’s not really a badger. Yes, she’s having more of an impact on readers than I really expected, which I’m loving. Kansten is a twenty-five…
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New review for me, FREE BOOK for you: Are you ready to travel to Herezoth?
Herezoth’s a dangerous kingdom with sorcerer Zalski Forzythe in charge, but full of adventure. There won’t be a dull moment, I promise you that, if you join the brave souls fighting against him and his army in the Crimson League. This week, you’re ticket is FREE if you fly by Kindle! Truly, it’s by providence…
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Jane Austen showed me the trait that will make any character unlikeable
Mr. Collins will bloviate about Lady Catherine de Bourgh and things that interest no one, completely incapable of taking a hint that he should shut up. Elizabeth Elliot will casually dismiss any thought of her middle sister, Anne. “It’s just Anne, she doesn’t matter.” She never once wonders how this might appear to other people–Anne…
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Creative Writing with the Crimson League 