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Five simple and cheap ways to boost your writing.

  Fighting with yourself makes for a bad action-adventure novel. I’m doing a lot of this lately. My current work-in-progress is a serial novel involving characters from my most popular books. It’s...

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Disclaimer

I know you’re watching me. Doing research requires a lot of reading. I write about subjects that I was once a part of, but that was years ago and I’m having to do more and more reading to stay current....

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Six expensive ways to help your writing.

    As a follow-up to the inexpensive post I’ve been thinking about this. If I had a pile of money to throw at self-publishing, what would I spend it on? Well, here goes; Number one and the winner by...

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It’s never too late to write your story.

Saw this article and wanted to pass it on: Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Now That I No Longer Teach in One                                                  by Ryan Boudinot I love a good...

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Harlan Coben

  I was fortunate to meet Harlan Coben at the now defunct Circle Books in Sarasota a few years back. At the time I had one book published and another on the hard-drive. I asked him what to do while I...

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Warning for new writers

  I occasionally get an email from a writer asking how I “made it”. I never really know how I’m supposed to answer that, as I’m still not really sure myself. I get up, I lie into a computer for a few...

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Closure is the Editors pick at KOBO!

Mysteries & Thrillers Editor’s Pick My friends at Kobo sent me a nice email telling me that my book Closure had been chosen to be the Editors Pick in the Mystery and Thriller Category this month....

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Clean Reader offends me

  Once again someone-somewhere-somehow overreacted to something and it has somehow-someway found a way to affect me and what I do for a living. Now I have to pull myself away from what I should be...

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I want this

I just don’t have a spot to put it….yet.

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The Moment

The moment. The moment you finish your first manuscript. The moment you write your first query letter. The moment you re-write your first query letter. The moment you get your first rejection. The...

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Closure #1 at Barnes and Noble

  Sometimes it happens for no reason that I understand. I haven’t done any promotion lately yet Closure has climbed into the number 1 spot at Barnes and Noble. I guess I’ll just have to blame it on my...

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I stopped reading about writing

  There’s an interesting thread happening on Kboards right now and its got me thinking. The whole conversation is a few pages long but the debate was one I felt the need to join. This is for my fellow...

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Nonsensical jibberish

I have this conversation often…

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Its the end of the World as we know it….blah blah blah

I spent most of June on vacation in the mountains of North Carolina. Little to no cell phone coverage. No internet. If we went down the mountain and into town all of our phones would light up like...

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Missing in Action

Where have I been? Yes, it’s been awhile since I blogged. This year has had several ups and downs, mostly downs. If it’d been a movie it would be called “Five Funerals and a Wedding”. Needless-to-say,...

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Happy New Year

  Whatever For those who are wondering, these are my New Years resolutions: 1. Stop making lists for everything; B. Be somewhat more consistent; 8. Learn to count; 12. Finish the next book.

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Amazon. Big monopoly or several million small ones?

Every time I think this issue is over it finds its way back into the news. Once again the Authors Guild and their Big 5 masters are screaming a word they just don’t seem to understand. Monopoly. They...

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Self-published author assistants, do you need one?

I have an assistant now. No, it’s not the girl in the picture from the previous post (not that I didn’t search for her). Well, not this Bill either. His name is Bill Vaz and he’s from a magical land...

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Presenting Bill Vaz – Randall Wood’s Author Assistant

Hello, I’m Bill Vaz, the one and only who speaks fourteen languages fluently, climbs Everest every year just because he cans, and many other things I’m too humble to mention. Well, let’s not get over...

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