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On July 16, 2015, I had the honor of giving a First Book Talk presentation at the best creative writing conference around, the Antioch Writers�� Workshop (AWW). I attended AWW in 2007, 2012, and 2013, and it’s the reason I’m ��

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A few weeks back, I wrote an article about where to begin your short story or novel. The article asked you to visualize your story as a party. My point was that you can create the most amazing shindig ever—full ��

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Last week, I had the opportunity to visit some students at the Dayton Regional STEM School’s STEMmersion program and ramble a bit about writing (that’s me rambling in the picture above). These students are spending a couple weeks with STEM ��

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So, I spent this Memorial Day doing a photo shoot with Zombie Snow White, as portrayed by Wright State University theatre student Haylee Dobkins. We ventured out to the Rockafield Family Cemetery in the Wright State campus woods with photographer ��

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This week, I’m thrilled to announce a major new contest–ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK–that I’m holding in conjunction with the good people at iHorror.com. Now through Sunday, May 31st at midnight, anyone who signs up for both our email lists ��

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So, you’ve written a short story, rewritten the story, edited the story, re-edited the story, and eliminated all those tiresome but’s, then’s, and so’s that clutter up tight writing. You’re ready to submit your story to some solid markets, right? ��

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In a couple weeks, I’m launching a super intensive two-week Internet Tour featuring guest blog posts, interviews, podcasts, giveaways, character interviews, and some more fun surprises! Please check out the full schedule now posted here on my website. One of ��

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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.�� —T. S. Eliot This’ll be short and sweet. If you want to write better fiction, you would do well to read and write more poetry. Okay, it won’t be that short, but ��

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Last week, my daughter and I went to volunteer at the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage at the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System. We helped some amazing people make insane quantities of biscuits, chai tea, chicken salad, and salad dressing. While there, ��

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Next month, I’m launching a massive Internet Tour in which I’ll be doing all manner of interviews, guest blog posts, giveaways, contests, podcasts, and more. I’ll post the schedule soon. So, this month I wanted to do a book giveaway ��

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