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Something you learn about editing:  checklists are good.  No matter how many times you think you’ve looked at something, unless it’s marked off on your checklist, you probably haven’t looked at it that one last time that it needed to be looked at. I had to get this down quick because someone asked for it,

I think that sometimes I’m incredibly lucky.  Today is one of those days: I liked Rachael right away. She’s a tough kid and, even when she gets scared, sticks to her guns and remains loyal. I also really liked that, although The Floating Menagerie is a children’s book, De Kenyon is not afraid to show her readers

Time to get back into the editing series…a new beginning for a new year.  I want to apologize for heading off in the wrong direction earlier, but it’s a blog: like any conversation, it’s pretty much first draft. I know a lot of writers who are like, “You must never show anyone a less-than-perfect version

Congratulations! Goodreads sent me the winners for the giveaway for Tales Told Under the Covers! The winners are: Ghania Afzaal Yvonne M. Glasgow Aimey Chun And I will be contacting them and sending out their signed copies shortly!  Thank you to everyone who entered!

Congratulations! Goodreads sent me the winners for the giveaway for Tales Told Under the Covers! The winners are: Ghania Afzaal Yvonne M. Glasgow Aimey Chun And I will be contacting them and sending out their signed copies shortly!  Thank you to everyone who entered!

A short story collection of contemporary fantasy and mundane magic.  At Smashwords, B&N, and Amazon.com, with more sites to come. One of my favorite writers, as a kid, was Zenna Henderson.  I loved The Anything Box.  I never really got into The People as a series, for some reason–but The Anything Box. It was an amazing short story collection,

A short story collection of contemporary fantasy and mundane magic.  At Smashwords, B&N, and Amazon.com, with more sites to come. One of my favorite writers, as a kid, was Zenna Henderson.  I loved The Anything Box.  I never really got into The People as a series, for some reason–but The Anything Box. It was an amazing short story collection,

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A few days left…if I read anything else stellar this year, I’ll add it to the list… Five stars, in reverse order of reading: The Non-Designers Design Book, by Robin P. Williams.  In a discipline that values intuition over clear explanation (seems like), a refreshingly blunt books on what’s actually going on. The Best of

I happened to hear about the Best Book Reading Challenge Ever: the TBR pile challenge.  The rules: pick 12 books (or 14, so you can ditch 2 books that you don’t like) that have been on your To Be Read (TBR) pile for over 12 months, and read one a month throughout 2012.  If you