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Flying Sperm!

Okay, this is not really my story to tell, but it is on my mind almost daily, so here goes.

My mother attended an all-girls Catholic high school. One of the mousiest, most nervous and awkward nuns was assigned the unwelcome duty of ( Read more... )

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Since I first started writing The Edge of Memory in October, I have spent virtually every minute I'm alone in the car working on it in my head. I commute 75 minutes each way. So that's a lot of time.

But I think I'm really done now with editing ( Read more... )

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I have struggled a bit with developing the pitch for my novel, since it doesn't fit easily into a single category. I had lunch with an English teacher friend who's just finished reading and asked her what she thought about genres.

"Well, it's ( Read more... )

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Well, not directly.

But the results of editing make me cry.

I finished my most recent edits and sent the manuscript out to a fresh set of test readers. One reader, after finishing in 24-hours, sent me an email this morning that had me in tears.
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