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ReBlogging Some Time Travel
So my #GrandmaProject is almost over (sob!), and I’m about to fire my hermit self into the crazy mix that is the RT Booklover’s Convention Adventure. (If you’re going, be sure to track me down and say hi! I’ll be on the Hot Heroes of SciFi Panel on Wed and in the Intergalactic Bar &…
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Why She Wrote Up on the House Top
I love reading about why authors write the books they write and I love thinking/writing about why I wrote a book. Maybe it’s an author thing. I don’t know, but the process of a germ of an idea growing into a full-fledged story fascinates me. So as Genie wrote last week, we were at…
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Time Travel Thanksgiving
I feel like I’ve been traveling through time. Being back home has swept me back into my past, and now I’m home for Thanksgiving for the first time in at least thirty years, possibly, probably longer. In the eighteen years of Thanksgivings before I left for college, I’m quite sure they weren’t all cold and…
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Why Genie Davis Wrote RIDING FOR CHRISTMAS
Why did I write “Riding for Christmas?” Well, months back, my dear friend and one of the best writers I know, Ms. Pauline Baird Jones, asked if I would like to be a part of a set of holiday novellas. Naturally, I leapt at the idea: fun, writing, friendship, a genre new for me –…
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ALL I GOT FOR #CHRISTMAS, an Excerpt
A peek inside All I Got For Christmas… Gini pushed open the driver’s door and stepped out into blowing snow and a chill that cut through her Texas coat like it was a puff of smoke. At least it wasn’t as cold as it could be, since it was snowing, but her blood had thinned in…
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Putting on “Home”
When you plan a Christmas release, or any other holiday release, you have to “get in the mood” well before said holiday. If you start writing during the holiday, well, it won’t release until next year. I sort of knew this, but I’d never tried it. So I started working on Up on the House Top in…
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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…
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Why She Reads: Talking #TimeTravel
In addition to officially passing five years of blogging (actually a little more but I was never great with math), and reaching the 600+ blog posts mark, I got to go to ArmadilloCon this weekend. It’s a science fiction convention held in Austin. It’s a fun place to catch up on what’s happening in geek…
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The Bad Guy Was Still Out There – Why I Wrote Steamrolled
I recently got an awesome fan letter for Steamrolled. He wrote that it had the “most unique and original views on time travel” he’d come across in his fifty years of reading. That email pretty much made my day, cuz writing that book almost made my head explode. Seriously. I knew it was pretty crazy…