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Sep.20.2009
Daughter Am I, my latest novel, will soon to be released by Second Wind Pubishing, so I have to start planning a blog tour if I’m going to do one. I hear so much about how great they are — mostly from the major publishers who don’t want to spend the money to send their authors on an unvirtual tour...
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Sep.16.2009
While most of the world is talking about the new Dan Brown bestseller, Second Wind Publishing, LLC has quietly released another thriller -- Staccato by Deborah J Ledford. You won’t find all the elements that have become Brown’s hallmarks: cartoonish characters, amateurish prose, tin-ear for...
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Sep.14.2009
I took an informal poll to find out how people discover new authors. (Hmmmm. Wonder why I’m interested in that!) I posted the following on discussion boards on both Goodreads and Facebook:
It seems as if there are as many ways of discovering books as there are readers, but I'm curious as to how you...
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Sep.05.2009
I just finished being interviewed on blog talk radio, and all things considered, it went okay. Well, there was that part where my mind went blank and I couldn't think of a single disease mentioned in A Spark of Heavenly Fire, couldn't think of a single biological warfare experiment that I...
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Sep.02.2009
If I hear one more person say he is going to give a hundred and ten percent, I think I’ll scream or vomit or do something equally repulsive.
What does it mean, anyway? A hundred and ten percent of what? Once you go beyond one hundred percent, you get into a form of mathematics that I know nothing...
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Aug.31.2009
I have an interview on BlogTalkRadio on Saturday, September 5 at 11:30am ET. We’re going to be talking about back story -- where I got the ideas for A Spark of Heavenly Fire and More Deaths Than One. Although one of the hosts of the show has read at least one of my books, I’m sure at some point he...
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Aug.25.2009
I haven't been promoting the Red Room group "Story" because of a glitch that shows a red X instead of a group logo. I thought the lack of a real logo made the group seem a bit unprofessional, but I've decided to go after members anyway. I can always pretend the red X stands for something...
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Aug.24.2009
A year ago when I was waiting for my books to be published, I kept myself occupied with setting up a variety of blogs. I told myself I wanted to test blogging platforms so I could help my fellow authors pick the best one for their needs, but that wasn’t my excuse for setting up a bunch of Wordpress...
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Aug.21.2009
No, it's not my birthday, it's the birthday of Second Wind Publishing, LLC. The first book was published exactly one year ago today, and now there are almost thirty, including two of mine (with a third on the way.)
I have no doubts of the success of Second Wind. Mike Simpson has the uncanny ability...
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Jul.26.2009
Isn't the Internet a wonderful thing! Something happens almost two years ago, and there it sits like a time capsule for all to see.
I met Lazarus Barnhill during a writing contest on Gather.com in October 2007. Entrants posted the first chapter of their work for people to comment on and vote for,...
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Jul.17.2009
Now that two of my books have been published and a third is on the way, (Second Wind Publishingwill be releasing Daughter Am I in August) I don't feel I have the right to complain about anything -- I've achieved something that many people only dream of. But I'm going to complain anyway. Or at least...
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Jul.08.2009
I've been sitting here for about thirty minutes trying to come up with a topic for my online live chat tomorrow night at No Whine, Just Champagne on gather.com, trying to think of a bloggery forthe Second Win blog tomorrow, trying to think of something to write for my blog tonight. While I've been...
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Jun.26.2009
Why should I read your novel? Why should anyone? Only you know the answer to that, and you tell us by the story you choose to tell, the characters you choose to create, the themes you choose to develop.
We read not so much to escape our lives but to add meaning, understanding, and depth to our days...
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Jun.02.2009
I finally understand why books about writing suggest writing the first draft of a novel as quickly as possible, to forget the mechanics and just get the story on paper or in the computer. I've never been able to do that -- the words come hard to me (or perhaps I enjoy the search for the right word...
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May.06.2009
I am the administrator of the Suspense/Thriller Writers group on Facebook. Our discussion this week was about negative reviews, and Marshall Karp left a comment that I wanted to pass along because I thought you’d find it as helpful as I did.
Marshall Karp, the author of Flipping Out, is an award...
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About Pat
When the traditional publishers stopped publishing Pat Bertram’s favorite type of book — character and story driven novels that can’t easily be slotted into a genre — she decided to write her own. Daughter Am I is Bertram’s third novel. She is also the author...
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