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Save the Words Word of the Day (don't let good words die, rotate them into your vocabulary!): tortiloquy N| Dishonest or immoral speech.

  Blog, (what a funny word, I know, it's a hybridized mash up of web log, but still, weird word) I apologize, I do not feel like I am obligated to you. In a good way. But it seems...
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With Ulterior Motive at a friend's who is an editing whiz (she should do this professionally!) and the Gingerbread Man currently being reviewed and critiqued by friends/fellow writing colleagues, the question is, which manuscript should I tackle next?

It could take a few months before Ulterior Motive is back to me to rewrite, and same with the Gingerbread Man so querying them might actually not be feasible until beginning of 2012. Perhaps that's not a bad thing. With so many literary agent pow...
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As I reread, revise and edit The Last Scion, the ground-laying novel and world builder for the Darkling series, I have found 27 unnecessary passages. From infancy through 6000 years of Ahmavia's and the Darkling's birth, culture and life--lots of things happened historically. I wanted to embed the Darklings into stone history was written with, and while some of it I'll keep in a summary form, I see it's too much to bog the reader down. In essence, it's not essential to the story, the furtheri...
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