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Last of the pay it forward interviews!
Today is the last of the Pay It Forward Interviews. My inteviewee today is Colleen Rowan Kosinski, who has worked harder than most people I know to get published. To me, Colleen's tenacity has made her a success, because if there's one thing you see over and over it's "Don't give up." Colleen is a shining example of that attitude.
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Pay It Forward Interview with Courtney Allison Moulton
My third interview in this weeks Pay It Forward Interview week is with the author of My Soul to Reap, Courtney Allison Moulton. If you read todays Publisher's Lunch, you saw her name mentioned. Mark my words, this girl's onto something!
So, Courtney, where's that haiku about your book...
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Pay It Forward Interview with Tiffany Schmidt!
Day Two of the Pay It Forward Author Interviews! Today we've got Tiffany Schmidt answering my 3 questions!
Can you describe your story for us in haiku form?
Mia had luck, once.
Cheerleading turns to chemo
Is luck made or found?
At what point do you think someone becomes a "real" writer? Finishing the novel? Querying? Sale?
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Success Stories Week
So we're back from the dead on the blog! This was just too good to pass up. Earlier this month I was approached about doing a Pay It Forward interview chain of pre-published authors! The idea was to show that people do make it, and even if the road gets hard, you keep going. What a great way to spread the positive vibes! Don't worry though, I' ( Read more... ) -
Moving on....
Well, I guess I kind of abandoned this blog, which bums me out. But between facebook and twitter, most of the people who were reading this saw what I was up to pretty much constantly. With the ads on here now, I'm just not into it. I may switch to wordpress in the future, but for now, I'm concentrating on vlogging. You can find me here. And as ( Read more... ) -
Reasons I Haven't Blogged in a Month....
Two truths and a lie version...
1. I worked 60+ hours at the job of awesome this week alone....combined with the 8 hours last week, that means i'll be getting almost a double check from what I'm used to. I'm thinking about getting another tattoo of a ten letter word tattooed with some of the extra (Please leave cool ten letter word suggestions and ( Read more... ) -
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
So there I was in the middle of Borders on Thursday, wandering through the YA section when my eyes darted up. Hey, says brain. You know that cover. And I do. It's a cover I've seen and loved for what seems like forEVER waiting for the book to come out. A cover who's contents weren't even supposed to BE out til Tuesday. It was The Forest of ( Read more... ) -
The Whole #queryfail thing...
is not something I'm going to take sides on, but here's the deal. Me and a few others have gotten together and are doing a weekend wordathon. Kind of the anti-queryfail...a little something positive, because new words make everyone happy right? If you want to participate, I'm at www.twitter.com/leahclifford or you can search for #wordathon. It ( Read more... ) -
Wrapping Up The Darkness...
So...voodoo, darkness, demons...rocks fall, everyone dies? The QT Blog Chain was started by yours truly here, so follow the link to read through the answers to:
What do you do to amp up the conflict? What pins do you stick in the little voodoo dolls? How do you torture your characters???
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Signs an Epic Edit Session is No Longer a Good Idea...
It occurs to you, suddenly and with AMAZING CLARITY that it would be hilarious to do a lolcatz version of your novel...now. Like, right now. Sure, you should be working on edits but omg FUN!
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