…on the Hearts Collide Kickstarter. We hit three stretch goals so far, including a special stretch goal that includes an online writing workshop. Thank you, backers!!!! We have a chance of hitting one more stretch goal, which would include one more writing workshop, if we get to 10K before the Kickstarter ends. There’s a slim […]
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I gave myself a self-imposed deadline to post about all of the books in the Hearts Collide Kickstarter before today’s Free Fiction Monday post goes live at noon. Part of that deadline included a three-hour window for this post to be at the top of the home page. Oh, and I wanted all of this […]
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I don’t normally post in the middle of my night, but I’m trying to get in coverage of all five of the books in the Hearts Collide Kickstarter in a 24-hour period. I had planned to do this over a week, but a writing workshop (and sheer exhaustion afterwards) got in the way. So, I […]
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…and I’m going to say it here. I love traditional romance. You know, the meet-cute in the beginning, the difficulties in the journey, the happily ever after (or happily for now) ending. I love that and I do write it a lot. I didn’t write a lot of traditional romance short stories, however, because up […]
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…can Kris meet her deadlines over the next two days and manage to write all of the promotional posts she’d planned on? Stay tuned to find out! Here’s the second post on the Hearts Collide Kickstarter. The first post looked at Volume One, which is full of romantic suspense. (The first post also tells you […]
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I had hoped, over the two weeks of the Hearts Collide Kickstarter, to let you know about each book. I had envisioned this as a series of posts, spaced properly, to wet your appetite for the entire Kickstarter. But I was teaching, and my creative voice decided I was going to finish the book I […]
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I had a spectacular week. I spent it in the company of fourteen very fine writers. They are all in the photo that accompanies this post, which was taken at the very end of the workshop. It was fun. I teach advanced level craft workshops in person about three times per year. The writers who […]
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine just published my newest mystery novelette. “Arboretum Heights” focuses on the murder of a rather unpleasant person in a university town filled with people who dislike the man intensely. So on that level, the story is a classic. Unlikable victim, lots of suspects. But of course, I figured out how to […]
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We hit our ask on the Hearts Collide Kickstarter within the first hour and now we’re almost to the first stretch goal. We couldn’t do that without all of you, the backers! Thank you so much! I’ll do little posts on each book throughout the week for the rest of you, so you know what […]
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Dean Wesley Smith and I had a lot of fun over the holidays as we assembled five collections for our new Kickstarter, Hearts Collide. The volumes in this Kickstarter feature our romance stories, half from me and half from Dean. I insisted on the subtitle, though, because the stories are often strange. I mean, look […]
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