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6 de Fevereiro de 2017, 8:49
I’m literally typing this up while sitting at a kitchen counter in our AirBnB house in Hawaii while I’m here for the 2017 Wekfest Hawaii event. I wish I would have had the time to get t…
How to Characterize Love in Your Writing
6 de Fevereiro de 2017, 8:40
I posted this last year, but it’s worth repeating: How do we characterize love in your writing?
Because, if you’re a writer, you must. It doesn’t have to be sex but it has to take readers that direction, right to the edge of the cliff. Yes, you can leave the lurid details out, but let readers peek over the edge.
How do you do that? Start with a few decisions:
- Is it platonic?
- Is it unrequited?
- Is there conflict?
- Is it lust disguised as love?
- Is it serial love? Or one-of-a-kind?
- Is it kinky or traditional?
- Does love bring joy or sadness–or misery?
- Is the manifestation of love baby-ish or mature–goo-goo eyes and saccharin words or Paris vacations?
- Is love verbal or silent?
- Is this love constructive or destructive? Flowery or brutal?
- what part does the spiritual play in the emotion–or is it uninvolved?
- Is it a subplot or a…
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Oh Canada!
6 de Fevereiro de 2017, 8:37Canadian Mosque Attack
I waited almost a week to see if there would be any correction from the idiotic Right about this latest terrorist attack in Quebec…..nothing that I saw….But I did not expect these toads to do the right thing….that is not how bigotry works.
I guess maybe I should fill in the blanks about here…I would not want those confused to oft themselves for lack of understanding…..
In what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called “a terrorist attack on Muslims in a center of worship and refuge,” six people were killed and at least eight others injured in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City on Sunday night. Police initially arrested two men—Alexandre Bissonnette and Mohamed el Khadir, according to a Quebec City court clerk—but later said just one remains a suspect, without naming him. One was arrested at the scene and another nearby, in his car on…
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Giveaway: The Lost Daughter of Liverpool by Pam Howes
6 de Fevereiro de 2017, 8:04
As a lover of historical ficction, I’m delighted to be part of the launch celebrations for The Lost Daughter of Liverpool by Pam Howes. The Lost Daughter of Liverpool is the first in The Mersey Trilogy. It was published on 3rd February 2017 by Bookouture and is available for purchase in e-book on Amazon UK and Amazon US.
To celebrate The Lost Daughter of Liverpool I have a lovely extract for you to read and then an opportunity, open internationally, for you to win an e-copy of this wonderful book.
The Lost Daughter of Liverpool

Can she save herself, her marriage – and her daughter?
It’s 1946 and the war is over. In Liverpool, the blackout blinds may be coming down, but one family is about to face devastating misfortune…
Dora Evans is finally marrying the love of her life, Joe Rodgers, and her dreams of opening a dressmaking business look as…
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