…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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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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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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Not as much reading this month as I had hoped, but then, this is the month that I didn’t sleep either, because we were dealing with the aftermath of Dean’s fall and surgery. I’m recommending a video as well as a few books and articles, which I will explain below. Much of what I did […]
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Well, October is a month that divided itself in half for me and Dean. The month was chugging along just fine when Dean tripped on a 5K (while running a 6-minute mile) and slammed into the concrete, shattering his shoulder. Suddenly we were dealing with doctors and surgery and schedules we hadn’t had before. I […]
Continue ReadingThe Never Before Seen Kickstarter ended tonight, with more backers than I could have hoped for. Thank you to everyone who backed the Kickstarter and to those of you who shared it! I greatly appreciate it!
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Nowadays this holiday—if we can call it a holiday—is called “Take Your Daughters And Sons To Work Day,” which is a mouthful. How come we can’t call it “Take Your Children To Work Day”? Anyhow, this story, the last to discuss from the Never Before Seen Kickstarter is set in the 1990s when this day […]
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With little less than 24 hours to go on the Never Before Seen Kickstarter, I need to up my game if I’m going to tell you about all of the stories that you’ll get if you become a backer. I still have two stories to cover. Just a refresher: we’re running an experimental Kickstarter to […]
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Wow, you folks are incredible. We hit the second special stretch goal for the Never Before Seen Kickstarter 24 hours before the deadline. Thank you, backers!!! I promised I would tell you all about the stories in this Kickstarter. The idea behind the Kickstarter was to see if we could Kickstart short fiction effectively. You […]
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