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Know thy Audience. ALWAYS.
Posted on June 30, 2014 Leave a Comment
If there is ever a phrase that sends chills through my body, it is: “Well, I’m not really sure if my COMPLETED manuscript is exactly aimed for teens. Maybe it is more middle grade? But then again, I guess it could be adult.” Oh, dear lord. There is nothing, NOTHING more important than knowing WHO […]
Book Launch Date for STORMFRONT
Posted on June 27, 2014 2 Comments
There are two things that should be known about me as a blogger (cue the whole “excuses, excuses” rant): 1. I am CONSTANTLY working – editing for someone, working on my own stuff, and getting grabbed to do a screen play (yeah, that last one was a shocker for me too). 2. I have kids […]
Four Seas Ice Cream and Undertow
Posted on May 30, 2014 Leave a Comment
It’s no secret that much of what is in UNDERTOW is “doable” in real life on Cape Cod. It’s like a teen’s guide on what to do on the Cape. Jump from the Town Neck bridge? Yup. Bonfire on Sandy Neck? Check! Drive out on the sand with a vehicle? Damn straight! Nosh on decadent […]
#NESCBWI14 here I come!
Posted on May 2, 2014 2 Comments
I am super-duper excited to flee my M-F job as a school bus driver and head to Springfield MA for the NESCBWI conference! And yes – you read that correctly. I drive the Loser Cruise filled with my target YA audience. Horror stories of the madness from the road can be found by typing “bus” […]
Fiction Craft at Sturgis West
Posted on April 18, 2014 3 Comments
I just wanted to thank everyone who welcomed me at Sturgis West – I had a fantastic time and many thanks to Laurie Carah who wanted me to come in and “warp minds” in the first place. I also loved meeting the English teachers and it looks like I will be returning in the fall. […]
Sturgis #selfies
Posted on April 17, 2014 4 Comments
ALRIGHT! I know you have ’em, so be sure to send them my way – those dozen or so selfies from the Fiction Craft classes!! Contact me via Facebook (or through my contact form here on Cape Cod Scribe). I would love to post your photos and what you learned from our time together! Learning […]
Bug versus Windshield
Posted on April 9, 2014 Leave a Comment
My son puked on the bus I drive this morning, and I had no paper towels. A crack formed in the bus windshield and slowly lengthened as I drove. I managed to shrink a favorite top to my daughter’s teenaged-size (she was thrilled). It poured buckets and my parked car ended up an oasis in […]
Why I need a Clone
Posted on April 2, 2014 1 Comment
Well – I need to clone myself at some point in the near future. While I am busy finishing up STORMFRONT, I also like to run in a million directions at once. REDBULL?! WHERE ARE YOU?!?! I am signing books with Katie O’Sullivan at Barnes and Noble in Hyannis on April 4th from 6pm to probably 7pm […]
Bookstores and Book Signings
Posted on March 15, 2014 Leave a Comment
I’ve had many Indie authors ask me how I landed book signings for UNDERTOW at various bookstores. The questions were the same: How did I ask them? What did I say? Who did I beg? Want the truth? I didn’t ask any of them. Instead, they asked me. Now, don’t get me wrong – I […]
Book Review – THESE BROKEN STARS
Posted on February 4, 2014 4 Comments
Only once in a while, does a book shave a few decades off my aged brain and cause me to run around screaming like a teenager, out of my mind obsessed. I tell everyone about it, down to the random lady counting her coupons in front of me at Market Basket. Really – I did, though […]
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