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Reading at VPL on February 6th
On February 6th, I’ll be doing a reading and chat with three other writers in the Writers Showcase at the downtown Vancouver Library (Central, the one that looks like the Roman Coliseum). I’ll be reading from my short story collection, How to Make a Killing Jar, but I was thrilled to find out that one…
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My book on TV!
For about a week now, my book of short stories, HOW TO MAKE A KILLING JAR, has been on newscaster Keith Baldry’s bookshelf! I’ve seen it on the news almost half a dozen times now! Look for the woman in the orange dress…!!!
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Article in WordWorks Magazine
Speaking of FBCW, earlier in the year, I had the pleasure of writing an article for Volume 3, 2023 of WordWorks, their magazine. My piece was titled “Breaking the Singles Barrier: Mastering the art of multi-book sales.” You can read that entire issue here: WordWorks
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How to Make a Killing Jar: Out and About!
Ace Baker’s collection of 12+1 stories is published and is getting reviews! Find it on amazon.ca or amazon.com:
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SMART SETTINGS
Jennifer Moffat’s “Love Comes into our Sight” in The Things We Leave Behind Jennifer Moffat is a talented romance writer whose character descriptions will lodge those people in your mind for quite some time. But she makes some smart choices with setting, too. Let me show you a few smart choices she makes in her…
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Teenager SENTENCES?
No, it doesn’t look like this… A teenager sentence is simply a medium length sentence, 13 to 19 words long. They often help connect long and short sentences and can be key in creating flow in your writing. That means that in terms of sentence lengths, A. A SHORT sentence would be 1-12 words B.…
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Writing scale for May 31st
“Well if you could accuse ANYONE of being downright evil, it would be HIM!”
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A Plunger is a Writer’s Best Friend
I call CTRL plus F a plunger, because, well, it sucks the SH*@! out. When you hit “control find” and put in THOSE dead words, you may find a lot of crap you need to clean out. I usually start with the word “that” and move on to “be” verbs like “am,” “is,” “are,” “was,”…
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Writing Scale for May 28th
Write about your silences… then, write about a time when you SHOULD have kept quiet, but didn’t.