Showing posts with label Writing Related. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing Related. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2025

Happy "Talent Day"

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  Unique Talent Day vs. Hidden Talent Day: A Writer’s Confession Today, November 24, is either Unique Talent Day or Hidden Talent Day, dep...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Landing on Another Planet: The Great Website Expedition

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There are moments in life when you realize you’ve crossed some kind of invisible line. One minute you’re just trying to catch up with the wo...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Buzzing My Way Into Chicago Libraries

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  🐝 Well, I’ve gone and done it. I just applied for a grant to get my book Bees, Biofeedback, and the Living Warning System into Chicago l...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Equinox, Roots, and Rebranding

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  (Because Even Gnomes Like Fresh Starts) Today (September 22, 2025) is the fall equinox — that fancy word for when day and night finally pl...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

National Read a Book Day (And Why I’m Late to the Party)

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It's no secret: I dislike conventional marketing. Which is why this post is showing up late on National Read a Book Day (September 6, 20...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Nine Lives, Nine Tales, And One Very Opinionated Narrator

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  It’s that time of year again— Cat Nights begin today (August 17, 2025). No, this isn’t some Hallmark holiday invented to sell scratching ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Slaying the KDP Formatting Dragons

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  Once upon a time, in a faraway realm known as My Living Room , a brave author set out on a quest: to publish a paperback on Kindle Direct ...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Smells Like Book Spirit

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Let me set the scene.  Just about every night, for about a year, I was being assaulted by what can only be described as a tactical strike ...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Space Ships and Potatoes

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  There’s a special kind of tragicomedy in trying to publish books online and to build a sleek, modern website when your brain looks suspici...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: Z is for Zambrano, Carlos

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In my house, we love baseball, big and small. For the major league kind, we follow the Chicago Cubs who finally won the World Series in ...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

A to Z Blogging Challenge: Y is for Yu Darvish

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Like many others, I love the Chicago Cubs but Yu Darvish, not so much at first. He is a pitcher the Chicago Cubs acquired a couple of ye...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: X is for Xtreme Sports

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What is an xtreme or extreme sport? Here is what Brittanica says: "Extreme sports, also known as action sports or alternative spor...
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Friday, April 26, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: W is for Wanderlust

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Wanderlust is a German word that has made it into the English language. If you type wander and lust into the Google translator, it comes ...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: V is for (Greta) Van Fleet

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Sometimes something good comes out of something not so good. That is what happened to me with Greta Van Fleet, a young rock band that ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: U is for Uriah Heep

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Uriah Heep is my favorite band. I love it so much that I changed my name to incorporate a part of it. The band is also the reason Tom an...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

A to Z Blogging Challenge 2019: T is for Tea

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I have always loved tea, even as a child. I have been drinking it for as long as I can remember. I like black tea and herbal tea. I do no...
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Monday, April 22, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: S is for Sunflowers

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I was wrangling with the idea of whether to use sunflowers or snowdrops for this post. Snowdrops are my favorite spring flower and sunfl...
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Saturday, April 20, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: R is for Rainbow

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Rainbows are one of nature's amazing feats, at least in my opinion. They do seem hard to capture, especially when you only have a cel...
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Friday, April 19, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: Q is for Quark

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In this case, I am not talking about subatomic particles, I am talking about a German cheese. It's pronounced "kwaarck." It...
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Thursday, April 18, 2019

A to Z Challenge 2019: P is For Postcards

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I have always loved postcards. I did have a collection when I was a teenager, but I had to start over again about two years ago. In that ...
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