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The title for this post comes from Speak Out with Your Geek Out, something started by Monica Valentinelli to celebrate geekdom after a journalist got under her skin by making fun of geeks. First, my geeks: I read and write a lot.  I write 1-1.5K an hour; I read over a page a minute (on […]

I’ve heard it over and over again in the financial circles:  pay yourself first.  That is, tuck money away for savings and retirement before you do anything else.  From a financial standpoint, it makes sense:  you can always scrape by (well, pretty much), but if you don’t prioritize your financial future, eventually the it will

Writing Victories! Zombified is coming out on October 1.  No preorder capabilities yet, and I’m not sure I can reveal the list of stories yet, but some fun stuff is there.   I will provide more information as I get clearance.  “Lanes of the Living Dead” is in there, bless its undead heart. I also

Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and OmniLit. Pick up a free copy this weekend only at Smashwords using coupon code PU29V. The Scaredy Wizard of Theornin by De Kenyon Cormish won’t stop bullying Aster until she steals the wizard’s spell book for him. But does he have to breathe down her neck the whole time? It takes more

Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and OmniLit. Pick up a free copy this weekend only at Smashwords using coupon code PU29V. The Scaredy Wizard of Theornin by De Kenyon Cormish won’t stop bullying Aster until she steals the wizard’s spell book for him. But does he have to breathe down her neck the whole

I picked this idea up at a Pikes Peak Writers Write Brain, and now I can’t remember who gave the presentation or the book that inspired them.  Dur. — A common problem I see with beginning writers is that they don’t know when to begin a story–that is, they’ll go on for pages and pages,

People who know me have heard this before, in one form or another:  being a hard worker is better than being talented. But today, I’d like to focus on a slightly different aspect:  inspiration.  I was having a conversation on Twitter with someone who insisted that he was stuck replanning his next project and couldn’t

One of the cool things about pen names is that, in creating a pen name, you’ve created an “identity,” in the marketing sense. For example, I created “De Kenyon” to write pulp stories for kids.  That’s it.  If you’re creating a pen name, you’re identifying your market; if you’re identifying your market, you’re creating an

Now at Smashwords, OmniLit, Barnes & Noble, Feedbooks, and Amazon.com. You can’t tie down an Amazon…there’s no coupon on this one; it’s my first permanently FREE story.  (Note:  It may take some sites longer than others to go free.) This was first published as in audio at Nil Desperandum. Miracle, Texas by DeAnna Knippling The man rode into

Now FREE at Smashwords, OmniLit, Barnes & Noble, Feedbooks, and Amazon.com. You can’t tie down an Amazon…there’s no coupon on this one; it’s my first permanently FREE story.  (Note:  It may take some sites longer than others to go free.) This was first published as in audio at Nil Desperandum. Miracle, Texas by DeAnna Knippling