Free Fiction Monday: Artistic Photographs

Roz trusts her husband, Jack. So when she catches him in her photography studio with a naked young woman, she knows the situation offers more than meets the eye. Turns out the young woman wants to pose for “artistic photographs”—the euphemism given to naked daguerreotypes sold to soldiers on the western frontier. But the young woman does not fit the usual naked-photograph type. Roz vows […]

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Business Musings: Facing The Future

To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. The initial title of this post was “Fighting The Future.” It came from a quote that I spent about a half an hour searching for. I had hastily scrawled the quote on a piece of paper while doing a dozen other things the past two weeks, but I didn’t cite the source. All […]

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Free Fiction Monday: Thorns

Shelton believes flowers save people, so Ruth-Anne Grant’s demands that he remove her name from his floral delivery list appall him. Because it turns out the roses he spent his morning crafting came from her stalker. Shelton, embarrassed and frightened for her, gives her the stalker’s name, thinking his involvement will end there. Only it doesn’t. The police show up at his flower shop two […]

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Business Musings: Rest (A Process Blog)

To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. I’m not even sure I can describe the last few weeks of April and the first few weeks of May without using my calendar for help. I had a series of writing, publishing, and work deadlines. Everything in my Spanish class was geared toward the last month, from a presentation (yes, in Spanish, […]

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Free Fiction Monday: Ghosts

He calls himself Ben…sometimes. Mostly he avoids thinking of his name so other people won’t remember him. He kills people for a living, but he has standards. He uses astrology to help him follow the right path. But when someone targets him, Ben realizes his methods might just get the astrologers who have been helping him killed. “Ghosts,” by international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on […]

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Free Fiction Monday: Still Life, With Cats

After covering too many war zones, Joshua returns to his grandparents’ place to find the house neglected and the patio filled with cats. He wants a refuge from the death he witnessed, but the cat yowls remind him of the cries of the wounded. No matter how hard he tries, the cats keep appearing. So, he finally calls for help, help that proves a little […]

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Cattitude!

As I write this, you have a little under 2 days to get your paws on the Cattitude Storybundle. I curated this, and it features wonderful writers and 3 exclusive books! Click here to get yours. And, just to entice you, let me add the introduction I wrote for the entire thing: Cattitude! My cats have gotten out of control. During the lockdown, I promoted […]

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Free Fiction Monday: Her Mother’s Secrets

When tragedy took everything from Violet, she left home and never looked back. Until now. Her mother’s funeral. Violet hopes she can settle her mother’s affairs and quietly return to the life she built after that day. Until she sees him. Skeeter Johnson. The boy who shot her in the face. In a moment, her past returns to haunt her. A past she thought she […]

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Business Musings: Go Wide or Run Away or Amazon Fail

To Get a Free AI Audio Version of this blog, click here. [Note on 5/5/23: As most of my regular readers know, I’m dyslexic. I have a first reader to catch errors, but this post–which was late–went live without the assistance of that first reader. As a result, I made two typical errors for me, which have been discussed in the comments. Normally, I leave […]

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Recommended Reading List: March 2023

I read a lot in March, and planned to write it all up quickly. But I had February to write up, and then some other projects hit, including a really annoying Spanish paper, and I ended up not doing much more than making lists. I loved almost everything I read, and what I didn’t love, I liked. That makes for an unusual month, but a […]

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