Patricia Stoltey

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Stretching Boundaries … by Dean K. Miller

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Writing is a fickle game, played by many, won by few, and it seems, the rules are always changing. It’s challenging enough to make headway in the game, thing like finding an agent, or a publisher, coming to grips with multiple non-acceptance emails, paying submission fees, and more. Still we play the reasons as varied …Read More

The Message That Demands to be Heard … by Tracee Sioux

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The goose bumps on my legs sprouted hair as I absorbed Elizabeth Gilbert’s speech at the inaugural 2013 Emerging Women conference in Boulder. Through a serendipitous series of saying YES! to my Soul I had scored press passes with a VIP tag; front row center. Had I not been in that audience I might have …Read More

I’m Starting to Fill My Guest Blogger Calendar for the First Quarter of 2016 (and some other stuff)

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Guest Bloggers Every week I plan to feature a guest author on Thursday/Friday. I have plenty of Thursdays open January through March, so if you’re interested in being one of my featured guests, just let me know. If you don’t already have my email address, you can leave your contact information below in the comments …Read More

How I Wrote a Historical Novel Set in an Era I Knew Nothing About … by Jennifer Kincheloe

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Five years ago, I knew nothing about the Progressive Era. I mean naught, nothing, nada. I had some vague notion that they washed their hair with egg yolks and drank Coca Cola laced with cocaine, but that was about it. I ran across a brief article about a police matron, Alice Stebbins Wells, who became …Read More

Getting Back on the Horse …. by Liana Brooks

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It has been scientifically proven that good habits are easy to break. There’s rarely social support for “good” habits like eating vegetables, controlling portion sizes, honestly assessing yourself, recognizing your talents, or doing monthly breast exams. We all know these things are necessary, but the stores still sell candy bars at the checkout, the restaurants …Read More

Finding a Voice … by Kathleen Ernst

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In the book world, “voice” is a difficult-to-define but prized element. “I can’t describe voice,” editors say, “but I know it when I see it.” When conceptualizing my latest Chloe Ellefson mystery, Death on the Prairie, I’ve thought a lot about finding a voice—and not just my own as a writer. Chloe is curator of …Read More

Character Growth: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

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By Jason P. Henry (Conference Director, 2016 Pikes Peak Writers Conference) I’d like to believe my writing abilities have come a long way since I first started. I could attribute my improvement to many things, but there’s one factor that I hold in highest regard. That is the multitude of amazing people I have met …Read More