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Jen: This weekend we welcome Sandra Marshall to Book Talk. Sandra, will you please share a short bio with us?Sandra: Sure, I'll be glad to Jen. First, I want to thank you for having me here today. My first career was in the aviation field. I spent 36 years at the now defunct airline, Trans W...

Ring. Ring. Her heart pounded frantically. Jolene pushed her covers off and jumped out of bed, her gaze on the clock. Four o’clock in the morning. She had a caller. Horror pulsed through her veins, and then she grabbed her purse. It can’t possibly be him. Come on, Jolene, answer it. ...

Welcome Back Jeffrey!Author of: "GONEAWAY INTO THE LAND: BOOK 1/Second EditionGenre: Fantasy5 Star REVIEW- http://www.amazon.com/ http://www.jeffreyballen.com/Jeffrey B. Allen will be at the Allentown Brew Works, mezzanine level,for a Release Celebration, and Book Signing on December 10th at7:30 ...

Here is my interview with P.J. Hoover, posted to the Enchanted Inkpot community earlier this week. Enjoy!~~~~~It is my great pleasure to be able to present my recent interview with The Enchanted Inkpot's own P.J. Hoover.P.J. is the author of The Forgotten Worlds Trilogy: The Emerald Tablet (Bloom...

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s blog chain time again.  Mandy asked:How do you prioritize? How do you balance paying attention to your writing, critiquing for friends, spending time with your family and earning a living?What a great question!  I did a blog post on this a few weeks ago.  In tha...

Blurb for "Confession":Can Chelsea and Jordan find their child, and rediscover each other?When Chelsea Montgomery vanished eleven years ago, her hometown thought she'd been abducted. In truth, she'd given up the daughter she'd secretly had with Jordan Case.Now he confronts her to help find the ch...

(packing or not, I've got to post the Friday Funnies :D Enjoy!)"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." -Thomas Mann"A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated."-Jorge Luis Borges

Well, as much as I've tried to avoid doing this, I may have to take a bit of a hiatus. I'll still post as often as I can, but trying to house hunt from 2000 miles away, get my house packed up and juggle my children on my own, and still keep up with everything else life likes to throw at me, has l...

Author of: "PONEASEQUA GODDESS OF THE WATERS"Second EditionGenre: Young Adult Fiction/Native Americanhttp://www.librarything.com/http://www.duckworthelliot.com/~~~AUTHOR BIO~~~Stephanie A. Duckworth-Elliot grew up on the island of Chappaquiddick,part of Martha's Vineyard, and is a member of the F...

The other day I was speaking with a non-writer friend of mine.  He asked about my current WiP and I was saying that my crit partners were busy shredding it.  That lead to a conversation about critiquing in general. At the end of the conversation, my friend asked “So, why do you do it?  I me...

Real life is rearing it's head all over the place lately :) Yours truly is getting ready to move. I will try to keep up over here, but I may have to take a few weeks off as we get ready to move across the country. Well, "we" isn't really correct LOL My poor husband is off in PA already working an...

So, as many of you know I am knee-deep into edits for Lacrimosa.  The rough draft was finished a month ago, and I edited through my crit group as I wrote…so the rough draft is a little stronger than a typical rough draft. A little…But now that it is in the hands of betas – and t...

I love this scene. I mean, what's creepier than a shop full of freaky little dolls?For the first time Bridget examined where they were. It was a store on a quiet side street in one of the busier Marina shopping districts. As she read the antique scroll letters painted on the front window of the s...

I know, I know. You thought I ended up in a Mexican prison never to be heard from again. No such luck!I'll be short with my Mexico recap:Puerto Vallarta? Awesome!Dreams Resort and Spa? Would stay again in a heartbeat!Wedding in a historic hacienda? Gorgeous!My liver? Still recovering!I'll include...

Hey guys…how’s NaNo coming along?  Before I talk about my NaNo experience for 2009, I thought I’d share a bit of what my children have written for their NaNo novels, as well as a little of mine…all in the hopes of motivating me to write a little more:Erika’s (My 9-ye...

Jen: This week we are happy to have Kathleen Duble as our guest. Kathleen, will you please share a short bio with us?Kathleen: I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and consequently am a rabid Steelers fan (don’t even think about talking to me when they are playing!). I went to Miami Universit...

At last, we are off! Lord, it is good to have the feel of a ship beneath my feet again. It has been too long!I have climbed the mast, swinging myself into the air. Twenty feet below, things wheeled and rolled beneath me. I felt my stomach heave. What a glorious feeling!Father yelled for me to com...

Welcome Aboard Julia!Author of: "PIECES"Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Romancehttp://www.amazon.com/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/~~AUTHOR BIO~~Julia Dudek lives with her husband, and two wonderful children inNew Jersey. She graduated from the Richard Stockton College ofNew Jersey with a degree in Histo...

Bite MarksBook Six in the Jaz Parks Seriesby Jennifer RardinChapter One My ass felt like a slab of dead flesh, too nerveless to even quiver as the butcher slaps it onto his cutting table. Twelve hours of flying from Manila to Sydney with another sixty minute’s hop after that is hell on the hi...

Jen: Readers, help we resume our interviews with our weekend guest, Jennifer Rardin. Jennifer, please tell us about your newest release, Bite Marks, and where it’s available.Jennifer: Bite Marks is the sixth adventure in the Jaz Parks series, during which CIA assassins Jaz and the vampire, Vay...

"After being turned down by numerous publishers, he had decided to write for posterity." -George Ade"The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding."-Francis Bacon (being an OCD picture straightener myself, the following picture had me rolling on the floor) "Storie...

Wow – what an amazing month!  Not only have agented friends gotten publishing deals, and writerly friends agents…but one of my dearest friends is now repped by an incredible agent.Who is this dear friend, you ask?  Well – it is someone who has inspired me in ways I can’t e...

The influenza stole in upon like a sneak thief in the night. It prowled the white-washed halls of the [hospital], snatching up lives where it pleased. Iris had, of course, seen the grippe before. But this was a far stronger, more malevolent version of what she’d heard Mrs. Banning call “t...

The fabulous Lisa and Laura are giving one away!! Head on over to their blog HERE and check out the deets. The contest ends tomorrow, so hurry and enter! Good Luck!!

  Today is just a little post to celebrate twenty-one years of married bliss to the most amazing and supportive husband any woman could ask for!  When we married, neither of us had any idea what was in store….but we survived the adversity, celebrated each other’s successes a...

You wouldn’t believe it (given how rock-hard, scuzzy cool I am!), but I am a bit of a…”schoolboy”! Here at the Taco Supreme 55.5, just like Mr. W.W. I love being in jammies and cute slippers, sitting in my room and daydreaming! (sighs) Daydreaming about all things that hav...

Today I am thankful for our veterans. I know that doesn't really have anything to do with writing, but as it is Veteran's Day, I think I'd be horribly remiss if I failed to thank these incredible men and women for keeping our country and way of life safe.I have a comic-a-day calendar with that cr...

I thought I would build on a post from last week about story creation.  In that post I presented the questions I ask myself when I craft a story:  What is the mc’s main problem, what is at stake for the mc, and what is the tension of each and every scene.  This post focuses more specificall...

Can you believe the holidays are just about here?  I mean, seriously, I looked at the calendar yesterday and nearly fell off my chair…I am on vacation for Thanksgiving in two short weeks (In Hawaii…thus the picture.  I know, I know, it is a bit disturbing). By the time I get back, it&...