70% off on Gateway

For two weeks, I’m putting Gateway (normally priced at $2.99) on sale for just $.99! Buy it at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Gateway Giveaway

Here’s your chance to win a copy of Gateway. Enter here: Irresistible Reads: Interview & Giveaway (International) with Christina Garner Go for the free book, stay for the interview 😉

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Outlining Versus Winging It Redux

So, in a recent post I discussed the differences between plotting out a novel in its entirety and going with the flow to see where the story takes you. At the time I was planning to try detailed outlining, thinking it might save me from the dreaded “shitty first draft” by replacing it with the “shitty…

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First 212 words of Gateway

I’m participating in a contest sponsored by Shelly Watters and featuring literary agent, Victoria Marini. Without further ado, here are the opening 212 words of my YA Urban Fantasy novel, Gateway. Total word count for the novel is 59,000. In the end, only the Voice remained.I told you it would be better this way…I was drifting,…

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Formatting Woes

So frustrated… Even after paying for formatting of my novel, Gateway, I recently discovered that a handful of my italicized phrases didn’t end up italicized. This wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that my heroine hears a “Voice” and I used the italics to differentiate between her thoughts, and Its thoughts. I’ve…

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