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Weekly
Quotation
July 20 - 26, 2014
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XX"What
is the purpose for writing anything if
you have nothing to say as a writer? What
is writing all about if it's not to share
your viewpoint, your passion, or your
personal vision of life, death, love,
birth, relationships, and yourself? It's
not necessary to state your theme in the
beginning, but when you write about something
that has meaning to you and is important,
your message will unconsciously be made
visible through the character's actions
or deliberately be revealed by character.
Writing about a topic that matters to
you will give your writing a much deeper
level, especially if your audience goes
away intrigued with or at least provoked
by your vision of the world."
~Rachel Ballon, from Breathing Life
Into Your Characters
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What's
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Women's Writing Retreat at the Oregon
Coast in October |
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I still have a couple of spaces open
for the Autumn Women's Writing Retreat
at Rockaway Beach, Oregon, in October.
Join other writers to read, write, revise,
reflect, and spend time on the lovely
and inspiring Oregon Coast. We've got
a great week arranged!
CLICK
HERE to read more about the
Retreat!
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Autumn Women's Writing
Retreat
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
October 5 - 12, 2014 - Sunday
to Sunday.
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Updated
7/21/14
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Eight Dates is Available! |
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ISBN:
978-1-63304-0007
e-ISBN:
978-1-63304-0014
Available July 1
online and at fine booksellers everywhere!
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EIGHT DATES went to
the printer today, rolled off
the press, and has started its
journey out into the world.
Hurray!
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Updated
7/01/14
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Are You One of the 1,000 True Fans? |
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CLICK
HERE
to read about the "1,000
True Fans" Concept?
Are you one of them?
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Updated
4/18/14
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Reading JUMP THE GUN at Lizzie's Bedtime
Stories |
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A while back, I was a guest on Liz McMullen's
radio show. She's now posted the audio
of me reading the first chapter from
the Jump The Gun.
CLICK
HERE to listen!
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Updated
5/28/14
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Here's the Cover for the New Book Coming
in July |
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The cover was
created
by graphics
wizard Ann McMan!
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EIGHT DATES is a romance about
Skylar Cassidy, who's been on her
own after a breakup. She’s
found that meeting women is difficult
– kind of daunting, actually.
She feels like she’s been run
through the mill, and she doesn’t
want to go through it again. But
when her best pal and business partner
Mitchell signs her up at the GirlsGaylore.com
dating website and characterizes
her as a happy-go-lucky, amorous,
risk-taking single, all hell breaks
loose. Suddenly women are coming
out of the woodwork and Sky hardly
knows what to make of it.
EIGHT DATES is a comical story of
a woman’s search for Ms. Right—and
how she finds quite a few Mrs. Wrongs
along the way. It'll be out in July,
just in time for the Golden Crown
Literary Conference here in Portland! |
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5/14/14
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Faaaaar-out News! |
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Good news! I'm very excited that the
latest book in the Gun Series has been
shortlisted for a Goldie. Woo hoo!
CLICK
HERE to see more of the shortlisted
finalists as they are added. The awards
will be given at the annual conference
in Portland in July.
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4/18/14
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Audio Interview at Liz McMullen's Show |
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CLICK
HERE to listen to the interview
Liz McMullen did with me. I really enjoyed
the format and the conversation with
Liz. We ranged far and wide!
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Updated
3/23/14
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New Book of Stories about Anti-Bullying |
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| I've got a story in Coming
Together: For Equality, a
collection of fiction with an
anti-bullying theme edited by
Beth Wylde. Proceeds benefit the
Planting
Peace-Equality House, a rainbow-colored
house representing compassion,
peace, and positive change where
human rights and bully prevention
initiatives are launched. CLICK
HERE to read an excerpt! |
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3/16/14
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Interview at AJ Adaire's Blog |
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AJ Adaire interviewed me recently.
CLICK
HERE to read about why I love
Anamaria Marinca, how come my next book
(Eight Dates) is a big departure
for me, and why it took me fifteen years
to be an "overnight success."
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1/28/14
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A Very Public Eye is a Rainbow
Award Winner! |
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| I just found out that my Leona
Reese novel, A Very Public
Eye, won the Rainbow Award
in the Lesbian Mystery/Thriller
category! Jump the Gun garnered
a runner-up nod. CLICK
HERE to see all the great
books that won or were runners-up
in Elisa Rolle's Rainbow Awards.
(You will have to scroll down
a bit past judge and publisher
names.) |
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12/8/13
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Review at Curve Magazine |
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The Bookgeek at Curve has done
a bang-up review of Snow Moon
Rising, my novel set during
WWII.
CLICK
HERE to read all about it!
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Updated
12/1/13
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Check out the Half-Hour Show I'm on Called
"Back Page" |
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Seay, the amazing interviewer at Oregon
PBS's "Back Page" program, sat
down and talked to me for her weekly TV
program with Pacific NW writers. CLICK
HERE to watch it! |
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11/17/13
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Yet Another New Interview! |
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I've been so lucky to be interviewed
lately by several great people, and
Jae is the latest. I remember back when
I read her novel, Backwards to Oregon,
and I knew Germany had a great new writer.
I thought it especially amazing that
Jae was from Germany and had written
an Old West type of adventure.
Anyway, CLICK
HERE to read all the questions
Jae asked me!
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11/7/13
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Rainbow Awards Finalists! |
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I am honored to have my two latest
books, JUMP THE GUN and A VERY PUBLIC
EYE as finalists for Elisa Rolle's Rainbow
Awards. CLICK
HERE to see all the great books
that are shortlisted!
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Updated
10/6/13
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Another New Interview! |
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The wonderful people at Ylva Publishing
have started a new interview feature
at their blog, and I'm honored that
they picked me to go first. As they
explain it: "From time to time
we’ll have guests on our blog;
authors from other publishing houses
and/or self publishers that are willing
and maybe even happy to answer some
of our nosy questions."
CLICK
HERE to read it. They asked
me some unusual questions, which made
this an extremely fun interview.
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9/15/13
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One of my favorite people on the planet
and a great mystery writer, Ellen Hart,
with me at Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore
in Minneapolis |
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8/18/13
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I finally got to meet Jean Auel! |
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At the annual Oregon Writers Colony
Founders Day at Rockaway Beach's Colonyhouse,
I served up a cup of coffee to a woman
- and it turned out to be Jean Auel!
Later I facilitated a fiction discussion
group, and Jean joined in and was a
wealth of information and humor. Woweeeee---what
a day!
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08/06/13
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Lee Lynch talks with me in THE ADVOCATE
on "Lesbian Mystery, Police Raids,
and Fairy Godmothers" |
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I had the great honor of doing an Advocate
conversation with award-winning GCLS
Trailblazer Lee Lynch.
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CLICK
HERE to check it out!
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Movie
Trailers
for the Books
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Brenda Adcock's wizardry, there are now movie trailers,
complete with music, for two of my books. Click below
to see - make sure you turn on your speakers, too. |
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Shimmer
& Other Stories |
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Snow
Moon Rising |
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Bound/Printed
Books
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can be purchased through any bookseller or online. If
a store doesn't happen to have copies on hand, they will
order them for you. CLICK
HERE if you want to contact me to get autographed
copies. |
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E-Books
at
Bella Distribution
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enormous variety of authors, and they're distributing
my eBooks and print books. CLICK
HERE to get the books in Mobi, Sony, ePub,
and PDF formats. |
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Rainbow
E-Books
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| Rainbow Ebooks also carries a huge
variety of LGBT books by a variety of authors. CLICK
HERE to get my books in Mobi, HTML, and
ePub formats. |
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Kindle
E-Books
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| Amazon.com carries my books in the
Kindle E-Book format. CLICK
HERE to purchase novels and short story
collections for your Kindle eReader. |
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B&N
E-Books
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| Barnes & Noble - BN.com - carries
my books in their Nook E-Book format. CLICK
HERE to purchase novels and short story
collections for your Nook eReader. |
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Recent
Online Interviews & Articles
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| A.J. Llewellyn at Dark Diva's Blog did an extensive
interview with me. CLICK
HERE to find out all my deep dark secrets.
The interview shows up on the March 4 entry. |
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Earl Kemp's online 'zine, eI, has featured
a memoir piece I wrote called "There is
No Reason Not To Trust that the Act of Writing
Will Be Enough."
CLICK
HERE if you'd like to read it.
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featured a long interview with me about writing,
creativity, book themes, etc. There are several
great stories featured in this issue as well as
other podcasts and interviews by a variety of terrific
authors. |
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I wrote three lengthy blogs at Lee
Lofland's site, The Graveyard Shift, about
firearms, law enforcement, and weaponry for PIs,
cops, sleuths, and bad guys. Click on the parts
below to read. Check these out:
Part
I - Guns, Guns, Guns
Part
II - Outfitting Your Sleuth(s)
Part
III - Outfitting Your Crooks -
and Yourself
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