Patricia Stoltey

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Sneaking Up on 1,000 Posts, Guests, and Peanut Butter

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1,000 I just realized this will be my 909th post, which means I’m only 91 away from the big 1,000. I should hit the magic number before winter, if I don’t get too lazy. What should we do to celebrate when I get there? A book giveaway? Gift card? Any suggestions? Guest Authors I’m looking …Read More

Telling Angel’s Story by Helen Ginger

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Helen Ginger has been writing for as long as she can remember. In high school, she wrote tragic love stories. As soon as she finished a page, someone would take it, read, and pass it on. She has no idea what happened to any of those stories. As a college student, she wrote a lot …Read More

Rainy Days, Lollygagging, and Nightmares

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Monsoon Season We’re finally getting a few days of the seasonal rain in Colorado known as the monsoons flowing up from the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, it’s helping to extinguish the fires, but the rain is also causing mudslides and flash floods in some parts of the Front Range. Lots of those folks whose homes …Read More

What We Learn When a Reader Asks a Question by Jerry Peterson

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Today I’m pleased to feature a return visit from Jerry Peterson whose post, Where Are We Going in the Book Biz?, appeared here on June 21st.  Jerry writes crime novels set in Kansas, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Early’s Fall, his current novel, features Kansas Sheriff James Early – the Early in the title – and takes …Read More

On the Other Hand…

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I guess I left my bad-tempered rant post up long enough. I had to chuckle at the number of views I received…lots more than any regular post about writing or the writing life. To offset my complaints, I’d like to offer up a few of the good things going on in my life these days: …Read More

Four Things I’m Really Sick Of….

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I’m in kind of a foul mood this week, probably due to the heat and the fires, so this is a really bad time to post one of my very, very rare rants… but I’m doing it anyway. Here are four things I’m really sick of and what I’m doing to make it all better: …Read More

Karmafornia and the Mechanics of Self-Publishing by NC Weil

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Today it’s my pleasure to feature NC Weil, author of Karmafornia.  NC’s lifelong devotion to words – sound, sense and consonance – has equipped her to write novels and short stories, sonnets, song lyrics, and reviews of books and films. She loves art in many forms – viewable, wearable, edible, and especially, remarkable. Welcome to …Read More

Chiseled in Rock Tuesday

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My post, “500 Words a Day,” can be found at Chiseled in Rock blog. If you’re still in that “I want to write but I can’t get started” phase (or even “I’ve done this before but I can’t get going again”), this post might help.

“You did what?”

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“You did what?” is the opening dialogue line of “Gila Monster” by Helen Ginger, one of the excellent stories in the Kindle book The Corner Café: A Tasty Collection of Short Stories by the BBT Café authors (alums of Dani Greer’s online blog book tour class). Today I’m pleased to participate in the virtual tour …Read More