Tag: #smalltownromance
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AI? No, thank you!
I don’t use any AI in my writing process. I waited a long time before I finally started writing books and hard as it can be, I can’t imagine outsourcing it to a chat bot. Once I finish my drafting and revising, I send my book to an editor. I revised some more and when…
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Why Writing Silly Love Stories Matters
The most important thing to me as I wrote No Gouda Without You was to have a main character who was a cancer survivor. I was tired of reading and watching stories where women died of breast cancer. What about the seventy percent of women who have breast cancer, go through treatment, and then pick…
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Why Authors Call Their Books Their Babies
Sometimes authors talk about their book babies and I didn’t understand why until I was revising my first book. Writing a book is like being in labor. Once it’s done and the baby has arrived you quickly forget the finer points of how arduous the whole process was to endure! When I was writing this…
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Never Enough Notebooks!
Meet my new notebook. My husband was so befuddled that I needed a notebook to write down recipes when I could just save the links to the online recipes I like. He’s not wrong. I don’t need this… In my defense, look at these pages! There are little boxes you can check and lines for…
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The First Snow of the Year
The weather forecast is calling for snow on the last night of winter break. Will we get five inches of snow? With all the technology available, you might think it would be easy to answer that question, and you’d be wrong.
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New Year’s Resolutions
To-Do lists make me happy. I love a good planner. I look forward to goal-setting workshops. Once the presents are unwrapped on Christmas day, I pull out my planner and begin assessing the year ending and officially write out my resolutions. I’m super good at making resolutions. I’m pretty good at working on my resolutions,…