A New Beginning: Fall 2022 Newsletter A New Beginning to Die by the Sword aka To Die by the Sword aka Death in Shining Armor Night . . . Saturday, September 10, 1988 The Medieval Fair Site . . . I didn’t want much that night, just to go out to the shop on […]
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A Bad Case of the Ya-Gottas “Ya gotta,” says the voice in my head. “Ya gotta get a COVID booster shot.” “Ya gotta work on your website; it’s a mess.” “Ya gotta trim the hedges before the weather gets bad.” “Ya gotta redo your Amazon Author Central page and add pages in other countries.” “Ya
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A WiP Report Recently I read Chris Fox’s Relaunch Your Novel, filled with tips about making money from one’s backlist. So I decided that it was the perfect time to bring out a boxed set of my first three cozy historical mystery novels plus a short story that follows the last novel. Little did I
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I am very happy to report that I finished editing OLD TIME STORIES, my new collection of six mystery short stories and eleven nonfiction pieces about the people and places that inspired the stories. And this past Monday I posted the digital version on Kindle Direct Publishing in plenty of time for the 8/29/18 publication
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WiP Report # 15 Hi, All! “Better busy than bored” has become my motto in life, maybe even more after retirement than before. Here’s what has kept me busy (and certainly not bored) lately. FATAL FEBRUARY The fourth draft of Fatal February, the second Calendar Mystery is done. (Way late. I’d planned–foolish me–on having it
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WiP Report # 13 Boy, howdy, how time flies. When I recently checked my files, I discovered that it’s been a year and nine months since WiP Report # 12 in which I reflected on my decision to quit trying to go the traditional route of getting published with the help of an agent and
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Memory as a Resource for Characterization I’ve completed the almost final draft of Wings, a Cinderella, P. I. Novel and it’s in the hands of my readers. (Thanks so much, Gail, Denise, and Barbara.) And I’m working on the cover. I’m not totally happy with it, but I’ll take copies of the current versions to
DIY Covers for Self-Publishers 1. For the cover of January Jinx, the first in a series of historical mysteries set in Kansas City around 1900, I needed an image to work from. And I’d already decided I wanted something distinctive. This meant clip art was out. And if I was to have half a chance
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