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Mar.31.2012
I contacted several big name bookstores to kick off the second leg of my summer book tour.  The manager of a Northern California Barnes and Noble bookstore said she was not scheduling any book tours unless she could be guaranteed a minimum of 100 books sold during the reading.  When...
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Oct.02.2011
Lately, I’ve been feeling like a character in Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.”  I do not feel like the parents, who pretend their son is still their son even though he has grown into a monstrous caterpillar.  I do not feel like the boss, who fires the son for not showing up to work because...
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Sep.14.2011
Blood Moon Rising, a paranormal mother son love story
I wrote my paranormal romance, Blood Moon Rising, after receiving interest from several agents, editors, and publishers from reading my short story about a suicidal vampire in Anotherealm magazine. But the novel, like most things in life, evolved into a different story, a love story, a story about...
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