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Month: February 2009

Author Photos: Yes or No?

I always enjoy the Novelist Inc. blog, and the most recent post is one by Pati Nagle about Five Should Haves on a Website. It's a great post and well worth reading. One of the things Pati mentions is an author photo on the home page of a website. She says readers feel...

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Hiding in the Writing Cave

I'm busy with edits at the moment and have worked all weekend on writing. It's keeping me out of trouble, that's for sure! I have edits on two manuscripts. One down, and I'm thirty pages into the second. Tomorrow I have a special guest. JK Coi is visiting and talking...

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The Author Persona

Barbara Vey at Publishers Weekly has a recent post about authors, actors and the like called Does It Matter If They're Nice? while Samhain editor Tera Kleinfelter has a post about professionalism. We all know how to behave in public or online, or we should. Writing is...

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Shades of Brown.

I think brown is such an ordinary color. According to my Merriam-Webster’s dictionary brown is any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium to low lightness and of moderate to low saturation. Brown is the color of chocolate though, so it can’t be...

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Writing and Writer’s Tools

I have a selection of interesting posts and info today. The first is a link to Holt Uncensored that talks about ten mistakes writers make. This post makes for interesting reading and serves as a good reminder of the basics. For those of you who like gadgets, Paperback...

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New Zealand: Cabbage Tree

I've mentioned the cabbage tree in several of my books. It's a native New Zealand tree and part of the lily family, the largest one in fact. The official scientific name is Cordyline australis and the Maori name is Tî râkau or Tî kôuka. It has a single trunk and the...

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Fingers, Butter and Choices

Mr. Munro is on the injured list at the moment. He jammed his finger in a shipping container after a fumigation yesterday and is feeling miserable. He has to go for x-rays tomorrow but meanwhile has it strapped and the doctors have given him drugs. I feel so sorry for...

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Love is…

I'm blogging over at Access Romance today, and since it's Valentine's Day in New Zealand, I'm talking about love. Here's the link to the Access Romance blog. Happy Valentine's Day! Do you celebrate and if so, what do you do to celebrate this special day for lovers?

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