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May I Tell You Something About Me? [Explicit]
I rarely participate in blog challenges. Mostly because I'm overcommitted in my non-online life, so committing to anything online is a venture fraught with inevitable failure. Then I heard about Sara...
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The Kindness Project
Too often kindness is relegated to a random act performed only when we’re feeling good. But an even greater kindness (to ourselves and others) occurs when we reach out even when we aren't feeling...
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A New Trailer: SKYLARK by Meagan Spooner
If you've seen my tweets on SKYLARK, you already know I read it in one day and couldn't stop thinking about it afterwards. I'll save the review for another day, but if you haven't added it to your...
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Facebook: Another Way to Eff Up Our Kids?
Heyyyyy, thanks to Sara McClung's Blog Me MAYbe blogfest, I've decided to post again today, thereby escalating the maybe up to a surewhynot. Today's topic: May I Ask You Something?So, I read this...
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I Take Back Everything I Ever Said About Pinterest
Not everything. It's still a major time suck, more than I'd even imagined actually. But it's an exquisite time suck.Because here's what I didn't realize about Pinterest: it's majorly fun.I know, right?...
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Book Stuff
Not my book stuff. Yet. But I wanted to bring your attention to some really cool book news.First, check out this brilliant cover for Kimberley Griffiths Little's newest bookWHEN THE BUTTERFLIES...
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The Kindness Project: Do Good Anyway
Too often kindness is relegated to a random act performed only when we’re feeling good. But an even greater kindness (to ourselves and others) occurs when we reach out even when we aren't feeling...
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SKYLARK review and ARC Giveaway
So. It's been a while since I've done any book reviews, for the Bookanistas or otherwise. A lot of reasons for that, not the least of which is that I got a bit burnt out on them. Not reading, just...
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The Kindness Project: The Transformative Power of Pain and Kindness
Too often kindness is relegated to a random act performed only when we’re feeling good. But an even greater kindness (to ourselves and others) occurs when we reach out even when we aren't feeling...
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The Kindness Project: Finding Strength with a Shovel and a Pail
Too often kindness is relegated to a random act performed only when we’re feeling good. But an even greater kindness (to ourselves and others) occurs when we reach out even when we aren't feeling...
View ArticleI've Got NEWS, Yo.
It's been a while, huh? I could make excuses, but. You know. Stuff happens. I keep meaning to revamp this blog, too. So maybe next time you hear from me it'll look more like me (taking suggestions for...
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I'm Alive, Whispering out of the Dark, Empty Cave
Today I'm blogging at The Kindness Project blog with "The Power of Touch," in which I get personal. I know, shocking.Also, a bit of news, since you may have assumed I'd given up on this blog: I'm...
View ArticleWhere I've Been and Why Sometimes I Must Quit the Internet
I was thinking I'd have launched my fresh, new blog by now, like before I posted on The Kindness Project blog again. ... Well. ... Â I posted on The Kindness Blog again. (HERE, actually. On Death Eaters...
View ArticleSlice of My Life: Sometimes I Change the Ending
I was working on a different post last week, something light and full of fluff. Heavily featured reality television and a wheel of cheese. And then I went out with my family for Valentine's Day--Thai...
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Falling In Love Again
It's posting day for the Bookanistas today.Been a while since I last did a book review. Wow. AGES.Ok, so can I just be honest? I'm afraid to tell you, because maybe you'll think this means I'm defunct...
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Out of the Dark and Into A Celebratory Giveaway
You thought I'd never post again, didn't you? Well, as I'm finishing up a new book (Eeeeeep!!) and doing other important somethings...yeah. But there's some pretty cool stuff happening right now with...
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Bookanistas rec: 17 & GONE by Nova Ren Suma
I always feel a little giddy when I actually manage to get a blog post written up. Even more so when it's over something so delicious and enticing as Nova Ren Suma's 17 & GONE--and this the first...
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GWUCER Day (RE: THE SOUND OF LETTING GO by Stasia Ward Kehoe)
It's Bookanista Thursday. YAHOO!(In case you didn't know... GWUCER= Giveaway, Winners, Update, Cover [Eggs] Reveal)UPDATE: So, I'm nearly finished with this new book I'm writing. It's pretty much...
View ArticleBalls to the Wall Courage and an Excerpt of My Latest Work OMG
It's come to my attention that I'm a bit of chicken-shit. Not to say that I don't do brave things. I'm an anxious nelly, and doing normal things like talking to humans outside of my own house (totally...
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When Publishing Sucks You Dry, Have a Cupcake
Here's the thing about traditional publishing.There is no way to predict when or if it will happen for you.I know, right? Sucks. Because you can work and work--sometimes years--and never see any...
View ArticleA Video: On My Haiti Experience and Brokenness
I had a different post ready to go today on writing a bannable book and decided (for the umpteenth time) not to publish it, despite this being Banned Books Week. Go me.Instead I've decided, after much...
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#TBF: LOVE in the Pages of a Diary
December 28, 1996Dear Baby,I went into labor today. Doctor sent me home and told me to return when the labor pains get closer. I don't know what I'm doing. Presumably they do. See you soon.December 30,...
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Free Editing Services
Will Edit for FoodFor real.Now, don't start throwing stuff at me. I'm looking to edit specific stuff. I've got standards, man.First, the rub:I lost my job. I know--who hasn't lately? Unfortunately, I'm...
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Out Came Random Tolkien References and a Fabulous New Cover
So the response to my last post was kind of ... overwhelming. You know how when it's gray and rainy out for days and months and forever in a row, and it's the middle of December in the middle of hell...
View ArticleFinding Home Again
You remember when you moved away from home? Like for that very last time? Maybe you got your first job and moved into your own apartment. Or maybe you got married. Or maybe you left mom and dad and...
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