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The Perilously Fun Fiction Fortress
What does my fictional world look like to readers?
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My Blooming Novellas
The story of my blooming novellas is a lot like that of my blooming short stories. Which is to say, they all happened a bit by accident—if you define an accident as someone asking me a question and me saying, “sure, I’ll do that.” And then I wondered what the heck? I usually write on…
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In Which I Remember TANGLED IN TIME
When I started writing Tangled in Time, it was not meant to be so, well, tangled. It was supposed to be a simple mystery story for an anthology with a Texas Landmarks theme. After…possibly six false starts, I almost gave up. Then I started wondering if I could write a short story using one of…
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Tangled in a Good Promo!
It’s Monday! Spring arrived! I’m in a pretty good mood (for a change. I know, what IS my problem with Monday? Answering that would make this blog post SO long we’d never get to the good stuff.) My sister and I were rejoicing over spring and she said, “After a history-making winter, we earned this…
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Why Elle Clouse Wrote Besotted
The idea for Besotted has been rolling around in my mind for ages. The series is inspired by the Final Fantasy games, which I played growing up on the SNES. I loved FF6 the most, which had magic, old castles, steamtech, airships, and whole cast of characters to explore a new world. I played the…
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Why Linda Mooney Wrote MINE UNTIL MIDNIGHT
I first discovered sci-fi romances with Janelle Taylor’s Moondust and Madness. Since then I’ve tried to read as much science fiction romance, and sci-fi with romantic elements, as I could get my hands on. But in so many cases many of the stories these past few years have all felt the same. Since I began…
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Happy Halloween!
Hope Halloween is filled with creepy fun for you and if you honor the Day of the Dead, hope its good for you and yours! Perilously yours, Pauline P.S. If you have some reading time, Edge of Never is still .99 but only for ONE more day! Then the price goes up! And it’s perfect Halloween reading……
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Why I Wrote SPECTERS IN THE STORM
We’re two days into the official release of the Edge of Never boxed set, which includes my short novel Specters in the Storm. If you read my Monday post, then you know that I wrote it in answer to a call for a boxed set and that it took me out of my comfort zone…