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The Only Way to Fail is to do Nothing
No one wants to talk about, or even think about, failure. Fear of failure is what keeps us from acting, from trying new things, from fulfilling our dreams. Because there’s that little nagging voice in the back of our heads that whispers, “What if you fail? If you don’t try it in the first place,…
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Excerpt from WIP Arianna – Beginning of Chapter 3
After leaving Brad’s house, I drove in circles until I pulled into McDonald’s and ordered a large fries, two cheeseburgers, and a Coke. I found a spot under a tree in the corner of the parking lot and turned off the car. I kept the radio on and spent the next ten minutes eating…
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Excerpt from Arianna (Unpublished WIP)
My body still shook with the sting of Brad’s words when I pulled into Nana’s narrow driveway. The street was dark, with the exception of a streetlight every three houses. Buried between Nana’s house and the neighbor’s nearly identical bungalow, I stayed in my car with the windows rolled up for some time. The night…
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Book Review of Production Values by Liv Bartlet
Never mix business and pleasure. It’s a phrase we’ve all heard, and there’s a reason for this. The consequences can be disastrous. This is the premise of Liv Bartlet’s debut women’s fiction novel, Production Values. This edgy, contemporary, sometimes cut-throat story takes the reader on an emotional ride through the throes of best friends, Kat…
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Excerpt from Latent Infection (continued) – Short Story
You can read the first part here. The first floor had a living room with furniture covered in sheets, the perfect hiding place if Cora had been ten years younger. When Tom pulled open the heavy dark green drapes covering the large front window that overlooked the front lawn of weeds and overgrown grass, dust particles…
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Book Review of Finding Kate by Pamela Humphrey
Kate Westfall thought she was done with her family’s secrets. Think again. Finding Kate is the second in the Texas Hill County series by Pamela Humphrey. It immediately follows the first book, Finding Claire, which I highly recommend you read before diving into Finding Kate. Otherwise, Finding Kate won’t make much sense! You can read…
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“As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on – in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were…
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Excerpt from WIP Arianna
Read Chapter One Chapter Two Ping! I raced into my bedroom, still dripping from the shower, trying to keep the towel pulled up around me. My hands fumbled as I grabbed the phone off the bed, nearly dropping it on the hardwood floor. It wouldn’t do to break another phone. If I were smart, I’d invest…
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Excerpt from Mile Marker 139
Today I’m sharing with you chapter three of Mile Marker 139. Read chapter one here and chapter two here. Chapter Three: Russ Jacobs His eyelids are growing heavy. He’s used to lengthy stretches of road and long hours. When it’s been nearly eleven hours of driving with only two thirty-minute breaks, Russ knows it’s time to…
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Where Do I Get My Writing Ideas From?
This is one of the questions writers often get asked. For some writers, they have a dream that inspires a novel. For others, it’s music. They hear a song that gets their mind churning, and bam, a story evolves. Yet for others still, the book comes from personal experience, from real life events that are…