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Wicked Writers: August 2011

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Meet The Wicked Team. Monday, August 29, 2011. Study Your Peers - The Southern Vampire Mysteries. Today I'm taking a critical look into the Southern Vampire Mystery series by Charlaine Harris, aka The Sookie Stackhouse novels, aka the books that started HBO's TV series, True Blood. Why am I attempting to analysis the work of a highly successful vampire author who's craft is one-hundred times better than my own? Surprised I didn't chose The Vampire Lestat for this post? So here we go:. Right off the bat i...

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Wicked Writers: July 2011

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Meet The Wicked Team. Thursday, July 28, 2011. Miss Literary and I Discuss Genre! GENRE IS NOT THE POOR RELATION OF LITERARY fiction despite what Miss Literary thinks! HERE'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:. Horror can be literary! My publisher says my novel,. The House on Blackstone Moor. Is LITERARY horror/paranormal romance! Miss Literary just fainted. Let me see if she's alright! ME: Are you alright Miss Literary? MISS LITERARY: May I please have some water? MISS LITERARY: Thank you. Oh it's. But tell me, ...

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Wicked Writers: March 2011

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Meet The Wicked Team. Friday, March 25, 2011. Social Networks and ME! I think social networks can be extremely helpful especially for writers. I like Facebook actually more than Twitter. Twitter makes me feel silly sometimes. I mean I like other people's tweets, but rarely my own. I feel foolish saying things like 'I'm going to sleep now, beddy byes' or quoting something that sounds as if it's come out of a fortune cookie. I always think the next breath would be 'my father works in the bank of Whatta Lot...

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Wicked Writers: Domestic Abuse Awareness Month

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Meet The Wicked Team. Monday, October 3, 2011. Domestic Abuse Awareness Month. There are so many causes designated for different days, weeks, and months, that most of us will easily miss the next one and not know about it. Should we feel guilty? No Life is too short to hold onto such a useless emotion. I did not know there was a whole month dedicated to domestic abuse. Fellow Indie author, Darcia Helle, of Quiet Fury Books. Did a shout out on Facebook last month for writers who either wrote a domestic ab...

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Wicked Writers: A New Appreciation for Editing

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Meet The Wicked Team. Tuesday, November 1, 2011. A New Appreciation for Editing. I’ve been doing movies off and on for the last 20 years. From being asked to fill in at the last minute for movies in. To being a vicious killer in a low-budget Japanese trilogy to being a mystery man in several episodes of Homeland. With Claire Danes, there was always one part of the experience I never considered. No, what I’m talking about is the editing associated with radio. Thank God I wasn’t on a time limit. ...Rob had...

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Wicked Writers: In Awe of Multi-Taskers

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Meet The Wicked Team. Friday, September 23, 2011. In Awe of Multi-Taskers. This week is an open topic, so I thought I’d offer a few thoughts from my book tour to promote the release of Hunters. Probably the one thing that stands out is the blogging. Many of the tour stops have been guests blogs, such as Mad Moose Mama. I’ll be the first to admit that, even though I’ve been writing for more than three decades, these blogs are kicking my ass. This experience has nothing on blogging. The coordinator for thi...

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Wicked Writers: Why Andy Rooney’s Departure Matters

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Meet The Wicked Team. Wednesday, October 5, 2011. Why Andy Rooney’s Departure Matters. This past Sunday was a very notable one. That curmudgeon of the art of telling people about trivial things in his life - one Andrew Aitken “Andy” Rooney - bid farewell to viewers of 60 Minutes. As he did his last segment of “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney” after 33 years. That probably means nothing to most of the readers of blogs today. Rooney is 92 and one of the final cogs of the old 60. And that’s the point I...

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Wicked Writers: November 2011

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Meet The Wicked Team. Sunday, November 20, 2011. Making Time for Yourself in This Time of the Year. Well, here we are again. The holidays. Oh, I know we’ve had holidays before - MLK’s birthday, Easter, Independence Day, Labor Day. But, those were just holidays. Each one meant something different, of course. Celebrating the life of Martin Luther King or the resurrection of Christ or our nation’s birthday or the common working man and woman. But, woe to the person who has nowhere to go for Thanksgiving.

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Wicked Writers: June 2011

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Meet The Wicked Team. Thursday, June 30, 2011. Head-Hopping To Do Or Not To Do! I'll just say it straight out: I have a huge problem with head hopping. I don't like to read it and I don't like to write it. I find it confusing and off-putting. My novel was written in the first person and I have won over converts who really don't like first person because I go deeply into other characters despite the one person narrating it. Many times that character ('I') is actually just the narrator so it can be done.