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Category Archives: guest posts
Vern’s Warehouse Dogs
As promised earlier this month, today, I’m spotlighting Karina Fabian’s latest DragonEye story, the novella Greater Treasures. Being a private detective in the border town of the Faerie and Mundane worlds isn’t easy, even for a dragon like Vern. Still, … Continue reading
eFestival of Words
Readers! Eight award winners in the 2012 eFestival of Words “Best of the Independent eBook Awards” have grouped together to offer you an amazing opportunity. They’ve reduced the prices of their award-winning novels to 99 cents for August 27 and 28th! Whether you like … Continue reading
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I’d Rather Write about Interesting Times
This is a guest post from Karina Fabian, author of the recently released Live and Let Fly. (See previous post for my review.) She’s appearing here as part of her blog tour; you can see the whole calendar for the … Continue reading
Talking about middles
Last week, my friend Jeannette de Beauvoir had a lovely post about beginnings on her blog. I told her that I don’t find beginnings challenging, but middles can be difficult. After a little back and forth, she asked me to … Continue reading
Scarlett Archer on first lines
1,001 First Lines is a collection of classic first lines, grouped by genre. I don’t always agree with the classifications used (I wouldn’t put Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland under comedy, for example), but that’s to be expected: I don’t think … Continue reading
Guest post from Alma Alexander
If you read the previous blog post, you saw my review of 2012: Midnight at Spanish Gardens. To follow that up, here’s a guest post from the author, Alma Alexander, about her writing of it.
The Magic of Christmas
(Today’s post is a guest post from Erin Kendall of Turtleduck Press. Enjoy!) Christmas. It is my most favorite time of year: snow-covered streets; beautiful lights on houses and stores; people dashing around in a buying frenzy; our Christmas tree … Continue reading






