Here's another great promo I'm excited to offer for the holiday season. For a limited time, you can grab the paperback version of my award winning novella, The Author, for $2.99. That's two dollars off the usual purchase price! And to sweeten the deal, anyone who...
Photos from Imagination Stage’s production of The Love of Three Oranges
I've been meaning to post these great photos that Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD was kind enough to share of their production from late 2012. What a gorgeous production!
Purchase the acting edition of my play, Daddy Issues, get the eBook for free!
Here's a promo I'm really excited to share with you! If you've been hemming and hawing over whether to go for the portability of the paperback acting editing or the instant gratification of the eBook edition, your choice just got that much easier! For a limited time,...
2013 NaNoWriMo aka I am actually rather proud of myself for a change
It's been a rough NaNoWriMo. You'll notice I not only haven't said two words about it, I never even posted my little widget guy so that you could watch my progress. Even this post should have gone up yesterday but there was baby chaos until late into the night so I...
NaNoWriMo Week Four: Behind, ahead or on pace, keep writing for YOU
There is less than a week left in November. Thanksgiving is a mere four days away. December starts next Sunday. All of this means that we're dangerously close to the end of NaNoWriMo. I know that some of you have already passed 50,000 and I want to assure you that the...
NaNoWriMo: a quick note on Week Three
Can you believe it? It's Week Three. Thanksgiving is only 10 days away and we're edging ever closer to the end of this 30 day journey. Many of you have already won and hundreds more are right on pace to cross the finish line on time. The rest of us, however, still...
Make your writing a priority in your life. Give yourself permission to write.
If you're going to write a novel in a month, heck, if you're serious about any writing at all, you're going to quickly realize that the only way to make it happen is to make your writing a priority in your life. If you don't feel like it is or if you thought it was...
NaNoWriMo Tips: 5 Reasons to get ahead early on your word count
People always ask me for my tips for winning NaNoWriMo and one of my biggest is that you should make every effort to get ahead early and front load your word count. Here's 5 reasons why: Use your excitement! The beginning of any new story is exciting. You’re full of...
What is NaNoWriMo? Frequently Asked Questions covered with this online interest meeting
If you're new to NaNoWriMo and looking for a few tips or if you're just curious for more info on what it's about, here's a reply of an online interest meeting I did last week. It's a static version of the interest meeting I usually do at libraries leading up to...
In which I hit my word count goal for the year early!
I was in an online write-in for NaNoWriMo last night and we'd just finished a sprint and I went to update my word count and I noticed something. My spreadsheet looked weird. But then I realized why... the little cells that are red when I'm behind on my word count were...
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