I’m still catching up on the Recommended Reading Lists for 2024. After August, I have to finish September’s (and December, of course), and then I’ll be caught up! Yay! I remember August better than I remember July. (Whew.) We held a successful anthology workshop. We learned a lot. We made a lot of progress on […]
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The Series Collide Kickstarter is winding down. As of this writing, we have hit two stretch goals, which brings the total of short stories you’ll get when you back the Kickstarter to 104. Given the unpredictability at the end of a Kickstarter, we might add anywhere from two to four more stories to that total […]
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As we do every January, Dean and I are participating in Kickstarter’s Make 100 Project. This year, we put together five big thick books with stories from our various series. Each of us has 10 stories in each book, and all of the stories are great introductions to the series that we write. I have […]
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You know, sometimes cats make great assistants, and sometimes, no matter how hard they try, they’re not up for the task. Angel tried to help me with my writing challenge in December, but it didn’t work. First of all, I gave up writing on yellow legal pads in the seventh grade. (Although I did write […]
Continue ReadingI barely remember July. We were reorganizing our business, repairing a lot of damage that we found, and trying to catch up on work that was due and wasn’t even started. Dean was still in PT…and then our air conditioner decided it would rather spit water at us than cool us down. (This during a […]
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I know that a lot of you writers are preparing for 2025. Dean and I are too after a…well…weird 2024. I’m going to be blogging about a lot of what I learned in 2024 on my Patreon page in the next week, as I process 2024 for myself. So take a peek over the weekend. […]
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A good reading month. I managed to read a lot of outside stuff while reading manuscripts from students as well. So, I’m back to making time to read for pleasure. It took a while to get there because my schedule has been so hectic, but I’m getting there! I read a lot of fiction, but […]
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I wrote a new short novel in my Santa Series this year. Santa Claus Lane takes place here in Las Vegas at a run filled with Santas. The story is romantasy, romance and fantasy combined. Yes, there are Santas…and Real Santas. We’re running a Kickstarter on the book, so you can get it and a […]
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I swear it did. Dean and I have resurrected the Kris & Dean Show.The first part of that class started today. And I said, shortly after we filmed it, that I was thinking we should teach the movie Die Hard again. Back in the day, when we taught the Kris & Dean Show live, we had […]
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I don’t often talk about the awards I’ve won or the successes I’ve had. Often, that’s because I’m deep in my own head, writing the next story. But I usually do take the time to say thank you. This past year has been so crazy that it took Dean to remind me that I hadn’t […]
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