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The Changing Author

Cigarette hanging from her mouth, the ash long and dangling. Smoke circle her head as fingers peck out a rapid tattoo on the the old Royal. Papers balled and crumpled near the waste basket as her characters chatter incessently in her ear, but not loud enough to get it juuuuust right. And as the final [...]

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The Bumpy Road to Publication

There are so many choices for new authors who want to see their book in the hands of a smiling reader. The road to publication no longer follows a straight path to NY. It is often a twisting maze of luck and perseverence. With new publishing houses popping up every day and other publishers imploding, [...]

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More Value if You Pay?

I’m going to admit a couple things here. 1) I had never purchased a book until 4 years ago when my friend had her debut novel released. (I was a library kind of gal.) 2) I STILL don’t own an e-reader. I know … scandalous right? Because I can’t afford an iPad, I vascillate between [...]

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How Far to Professional?

I am a member of Romance Writers of America. Mostly I keep up my membership because I can then be a member of smaller chapters like Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal, Maine Romance Writers and the New England Chapter, all of them full of wonderful authors who offer advice and support my career. When I started [...]

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Save the Earth

Welcome to Earth Day 2011. I hope you’re doing your part to protect our environment. Me? I’m a recycling fiend. Plastic, aluminum, paper, you name it I recycle it. When we were packing to move my oldest daughter, whose even more into it than I am, even found places for me to send used denim [...]

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Change … the Only Constant

Every once in awhile reality smucks me upside the head. You know those moments when something you’ve been doing every day strikes you as an OMG! moment. Okay, maybe it’s only me, but I’m going to chat about it anyway. It happened innocently enough. Mr. Nina and I were looking at a house we’re thinking [...]

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It’s RELEASE DAY!!

I’m so excited that Maid for Master is released out into the world today! I’m actually hanging over at Dirty Sexy Books. I hope you’ll stop over. I’ve got a great post on erotic romance vs. porn and an excerpt from “Maid for Master”. Oh, here’s the video … Tweet This Post

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A Magic Monday

I’d like to welcome author SAPPHIRE PHELAN to The Block today. Welcome Sapphire. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about you and how you got into writing I’ve been writing since I was eight, maybe even younger. I wanted to make up stories (mainly animal and scifi ones) like I read. I wrote [...]

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Exposing the Heartstone

Today I’d like to welcome debut author Lynda K. Scott to the Writer’s Block. Lynda’s first book, Heartstone has recently been released by Mundania Press. Welcome Lynda, tell us a little bit about you and how you got into writing I’ve been writing since the time I could first hold a pencil in my chubby [...]

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Button it Up!

w00t! w00t! The news on people buying Kindles and Kindle books is nothing but encouraging. USA Today reported in July that Kindle continues to change and adapt to remain competitive in the market place. The price of the ereader has dropped significantly making it more affordable to more people. This change just further supports the [...]

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