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“…Rachel A. Brune writes with butterfly-knife dexterity: Always a flashy cut, a dreadful twist, a sideways chance at hope.” ~Randy Brown, co-editor of Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War
Tag Archives: reading
Itty Bitty Seismic Shift Committee
Actually, there’s no committee. It’s just me, at a desk, with about a thousand tabs open plus my phone notifications popping up, plus several piles of books around me and twelve different disorganized to-do lists, trying to make sense of … Continue reading
10 Gifts to Get a Writer for Valentine’s Day
Ten (actually, more than ten) gift ideas for writers for Valentine’s Day (which are actually just things I’ve got on my Amazon wish list…) Continue reading
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Tagged gifts, indie author, reading, Valentine, writing
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Sisyphus runs my inbox…
Seriously, I feel like the more messages and emails and texts and message and emails and whatsapps and notifications I check off the old to-do list, the farther and farther behind I lag. While I’m working on clearing some projects … Continue reading
Posted in On the Shelf, Welcome, Writing Reflections
Tagged indie author, reading, writing
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New mic, that’s who…
In answer to the question, of course, “New mic, who dis?” Here, let me show you: I was reading Podcasting Made Simple by Daniel Larson to learn some ways to approach developing, producing, and promoting a show, and in that … Continue reading
Dusting Myself Off and Getting Back in the Fight
…when I wrote down my intentions for the new year, I included the fact that I wanted to do a podcast. And now…I am setting up for two. Continue reading
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Tagged indie author, milblogger, reading, writing
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On the Shelf: Fae, Fae, and more Fae!
I ripped through that and then, on Tuesday had to send [the author] a message asking where the next book is… ANYWAY, that is the blessing and curse of being a voracious reader. Continue reading
Back On the Shelf!
This year, I’ve realized, I’m not getting any younger, and so I subscribed to a half a dozen gardening, herbalism, and green/plant witch podcasts, bought a bunch of books on herbalism, gardening, and the like, picked up a bunch of garden stuff like soil and fabric pots and seeds and plants, and got started on learning how to do this stuff. Continue reading
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Tagged green witch, plants, reading, writing
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On the Shelf: Empty Shelves…
haracters take me away. There’s so much research I want to do right now–history, and green witchery, and the craft of horror writing–and the more I want to, the less I find myself cracking open the book and just going for it. Continue reading
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On the Shelf: Green Witchery
I needed an herb to be added to a brewing process so that my werewolves could get drunk. Seriously. I was thinking about them, and how it would be kind of sad to be a generations-old pack of beer brewers who couldn’t enjoy the effects of their own wares. So that started me down a rabbit hole of gardening and herbs and lore… Continue reading
On the Shelf: Down a (Grim)Dark Alley
I’ve been diving down the dark fantasy rabbit hole, immersing myself in grim settings and antiheroes. If you’ve got a penchant for dirty deeds and dirty … well, people who live in a storage unit, you really should check out… Continue reading