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Posted onOctober 22, 2015Backstage Character Pass

Backstage Character Pass — Maris Dawson

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Chris and Olivia are the only two characters who were both planned to be in the book and came out the way they were initially…

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Posted onOctober 15, 2015My Writing

Backstage Character Pass — Olivia Faraday

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Beyond any doubt, my most polarizing character has been the eccentric Deathsniffer, Olivia Faraday. Some of my readers seem entirely focused on her to the…

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Posted onSeptember 17, 2015My Writing

Backstage Character Pass — Christopher Buckley

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Welcome to the first in my series exploring the characters of The Faraday Files! To start, here’s a little backstory and trivia about my narrator…

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Posted onSeptember 15, 2015My Writing

Tentatively Calling This One a Success

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With thirty ratings on Amazon and fifty on Goodreads, it looks like a consensus is officially emerging on the topic of my debut novel. And…

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Posted onAugust 12, 2015My Writing

In Defense of the “Weak” Male Lead

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There are certain traits that we, as a society, tend to value in a male lead. Stoicism. Wordliness. Confidence. Physicality. Adventurousness. Fortitude. Courage. There’s a…

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Posted onJuly 23, 2015My Writing

Five Things You’ll Never See Me Write (Without a Lampshade)

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As anyone who’s had time to read my debut will tell you, I’m not the sort of writer who shies away from negativity. My characters…

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Posted onJuly 20, 2015My Life

Metrics of Success

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Have you ever sat down and tried to sketch out an exact scenario that would signify you’ve achieved your dreams? I did. About ten years…

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Posted onJuly 13, 2015My Life

My Baby Turned Loose Into the World

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Today is the day! It was October 4th, 2011, when I wrote the last word of The Deathsniffer’s Assistant. (The last word is “murder,” which…

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Posted onJuly 5, 2015My Writing

Book 2 Gets a Title!

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I  know, I know! You’re all still eagerly waiting for the first book, which is still a week away, and here I am talking about…

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Posted onJune 26, 2015My Writing

Seeing Your (Literary) Baby for the First Time

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“You’re not going to believe this,” one of my closest friends texted me to say a week ago. “There was a box from Amazon on…

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