Patricia Stoltey

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Introducing The Enchanted Garden Mysteries (Contains Mature Themes!) … by Bailey Cattrell

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Thanks for having me back on your blog, Pat! It’s always such a pleasure. To clarify, that “Mature Themes” in the title shouldn’t scare anyone off – and will likely prove disappointing for those who find the phrase enticing. But I’ll get to that a little later. First, I want give a bit of background …Read More

Which is Stranger—Truth or Fiction? … by Margaret Mizushima

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“Humankind cannot take too much reality.” ~T.S. Elliott I love it when a grizzled detective on Dateline or 48 Hours shakes his head in amazement and says to the interviewer, “This crime is so twisted. You can’t make this kind of stuff up.” As a mystery writer, I can’t help but think, Oh, but we …Read More

The Propaganda Assault

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These days, we’re assaulted by propaganda on social media, television, in books, newspapers, even everyday conversations. It’s getting worse, and it’s getting more dangerous. There’s no rule, you know, that the content of propaganda be true. As a matter of fact, the bigger the lie, the more effective when aimed at an audience of naive, …Read More

Another DIY Interview with Kerrie Flanagan (and her muse): How and Why Kerrie Started Hot Chocolate Press

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Muse: Why did you decide to start a publishing company? Kerrie: It was at the end of 2013. I had helped a handful of writers self-publish their books. So I knew the process well. I had a couple ideas of my own I wanted to get out there but I knew they would be hard …Read More

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