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Phew!
Home again, after teaching a full day workshop at Toronto Romance Writers on Saturday. I think it went well – I had fun, anyways – but now it’s back to my regular writing schedule. I like to teach and interact with people. It gets me out of my little writing cave and always gives me…
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Resolutions
Do you make resolutions at the beginning of each year? Do you stick to them? I tend to do a review in December of the year that has just passed, making mental lists of what worked and what didn’t work. From that, I try to work out ways to improve my life or my work…
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Happy New Year!
Happy new year, everyone, and all the best to you and yours! Here’s to a wonderful, healthy and happy 2012 for everyone. 🙂 (Did you know that 2012 is the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar? It doesn’t start until February…)
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Books Standing Alone
This is a pondering post, and I welcome your comments on it. It’s about something that has confused me for a long time, and maybe some of you have some ideas that will clarify the issue for me. One of the things I always want to do with linked books is have continuing story threads.…
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The Queen Bee’s Tips to Negotiation
Negotiating is part of an author’s life, and it’s one thing I’ve had to learn to do better over the years. I realized this past week that I had the best possible advisor sleeping at my feet and never realized as much. The Queen Bee – our standard poodle – is a master negotiator. You…