Patricia Stoltey

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Mead? What the heck is mead?

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On Saturday, I attended the book signing and mead tasting for Cricket McRae‘s newest Home Crafting mystery, Wined and Died. I would have attended the signing anyway, but a mead tasting was definitely an added incentive to head to Old Town Fort Collins on a 90+ degree day. I parked a few blocks away from …Read More

I Love Stephen King’s Advice to Writers

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WORDS OF WISDOM FOR BEGINNING WRITERSFROM STEPHEN KING I love this advice because it encourages the one thing I love even more than writing…reading. I’ve written often about my obsessions with books. I buy new ones with and without authors’ signatures, buy and trade used books (yes, even though the author doesn’t get a royalty …Read More

Changing Horses by Leslee Breene, Guest Blogger

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I am so pleased to present Leslee Breene, one of my writerly Colorado friends. We first met because we had the same publisher, Five Star/Cengage, back in the days when they still had the Expressions line for romance and women’s fiction. Since Five Star no longer produces novels in that genre, Leslee has moved on. …Read More

Wednesday Scramble

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Thursday’s Guest Colorado author of historical and contemporary Western romance Leslee Breene is my guest tomorrow. Can you change horses in the middle of the (writing) stream? See what Leslee says about that. Die Buying Coloradoan Laura DiSilverio’s upcoming new mystery release, Die Buying, features a female mall cop as the protagonist. You can read …Read More

The Camera as a Writer’s Tool (for Procrastination)

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There are many things a writer can do to avoid writing. Today’s tools for procrastination are the camera and scanner. 1. Take your camera outside and photograph the weather. Here’s a shot from winter 2009 (just to cool you off since it’s hot in so many parts of the country). It was early in the …Read More

I Wish I Could…

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1. Do the Argentine Tango 2. Sing and move like Tina Turner 3. Play flamenco guitar 4. Speak Italian 5. Read my kitten’s mind 6. For that matter, read my husband’s mind…or maybe not. 7. Invent something useful 8. Meet the Dalai Lama 9. Grow orchids 10. Drive an Indy Race Car around the track …Read More

“I Think I’m Writing a Book” by Betsy Dornbusch, Guest Blogger

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I’m pleased to introduce Betsy Dornbusch, fantasy and sci fi author as well as an editor at Electric Spec, a not-for-profit speculative fiction magazine published four times per year. There’s also an Electric Spec Blog. Betsy’s personal blog is Sex Scenes at Starbucks. Each day she’s posting where she’ll be on her virtual book tour. …Read More

Wednesday Scramble

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Thursday’s Guest Our guest blogger this week is Betsy Dornbusch, author of fantasy and science-fiction and editor at Electric Spec. Her blog is called Sex Scenes at Starbucks, so you know she has a wonderful imagination (and sense of humor). More on Productivity Elizabeth Spann Craig aka Riley Adams has a good post on this …Read More