Goaded on by the lovely people who have read my novel, 'Darkness Knows Me',  and those who are waiting for the next in the series, I am currently trying to shift into high gear on the next manuscript. Initially, I thought this would be a relatively quick and simple task because the manuscript already exists. Silly me! (I think I'll be saying this quite a bit over the next decade or two) The idea was to  take the plot lines from this existing manuscript and Olivia and Will and all the other players in the last book and shove them into the pre-existing story. Sounds simple, right? How difficult...

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Journey to Authorship: Blog Post #1 March 11, 2013 In The Beginning . . . There was This Really Bad Book. This carnival fun ride I'm clinging to, this journey to authorship I decided I had enough wherewithal to undertake, started on a Saturday afternoon about three years ago, give or take a year. I was struggling through reading yet another poor book purchase, when I heard a voice say, "I could write something better than this." That voice sounded suspiciously like my own, but I knew I would never say something like this, at least not out loud, and once I realized I said those words, I knew...

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