Tag: writing
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A Little Satire for Parents (and Anyone Who’s Been a Kid Athlete)
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a satire site that I’m often giggling at, decided they liked my piece of writing and published it. Here’s a little humor piece I hope you enjoy. It’s called, “A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the Terribleness of Youth Sports.”
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Ways I’m Keeping Myself Sane(ish) in 2017
These aren’t New Year’s resolutions because January first is an arbitrary date and YOU CAN’T CONTROL ME, GREGORIAN CALENDAR! But these are little things I’m doing to make me feel better about how I interact with the world. Take a look, one might be helpful to you. Delete Twitter from my phone. The problem is…
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“So you’re an editor? You, like, fix typos?”
If you haven’t worked with an editor (or don’t live with one to hear the end-of-the-day, get-me-the-wine stories), you might not know the work that goes into editing. Let me introduce the talented Rhonda Parrish, who’s doing some great work to make the books we all love and she graciously accepted an offer to give us a…
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The 777 Writer’s Challenge – An Excerpt from my WIP
I’ve been challenged. Mike Fuller, a fellow historical fiction writer, tagged me in the “777 Writer’s Challenge” in which I’m dared to share seven lines, beginning with the the 7th line down on the 7th page of a work-in-progress. Well, I’m not usually one to back away from challenges. So here’s an excerpt from Through the Narrows…
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Read Chapters 1 & 2 of Language of the Bear Here
Language of the Bear, a historical adventure set on the frontier of Colonial Pennsylvania is now out in ebook and paperback! People have been reading the ebook since May, and for all of you who prefer print, the paperback edition is now available at Amazon (check it out here). Within a few weeks, all other stores like…
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Language of the Bear Cover Reveal!
The artwork is here and it’s fantastic! Many thanks to our great designer for all the effort she put into making this beauty: I could go on at length about how much I love the cover and why I think it captures the vibe and feeling of Language of the Bear. But instead, I’ll just…
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Tasting Outside Your Genre—of Books and Burgers
Every writer knows they’re supposed to read books from different areas of the bookstore. Wait, no. Every reader knows that, too, or at least has heard the recommendation to read widely. The advice goes something like this: “You write sci-fi/mystery/romance/YA/whatever? Read everything, old and new, in your genre. Then read lots of stuff in other genres.”…
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Here We Go, Ladies and Gentlemen
Oh, the dreaded first post on a new page. Don’t know if you feel the same way, but, man, trying to get a new blog up and running is a good time except for writing that very first post. So I’m going to skip all the bad ideas I had about just typing a joke,…
Nathanael Green 