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Cover Reveal for Breathe the Sky & Giveaway

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12 Dec 2019
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It’s time, my lovely readers! I’m finally ready to reveal what my next book will be. People have been asking me to write a romance about my weird desert biology job for years, and I finally did it. It’s called BREATHE THE SKY (which might be my favorite title yet) coming August 18, 2020 from Berkley-Penguin Random House, and also in audiobook from Penguin Audio. It has: A grouchy, foul-mouthed construction worker with a secret, cinnamon roll heart A nomadic wildlife biologist who lives in her truck and is on the run from her ex A whole lot of adorable saving-baby-animal scenes enemies to friends to lovers Two people who’ve both survived abuse and they’re so gentle with each other, oh my gosh I can’t even with them. The last one makes it sound like the story’s really sad, but...
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5 Ways to Write A Better Edit Letter

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23 Sep 2019
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When you’re giving feedback on a manuscript, there are two parts to writing the edit letter: The craft stuff: how you think the book could be strengthened. The emotional dimension: getting your author to the right headspace to actually make the changes. The second skill is the one that editors most often ignore or shortcut. After all, they figure, I told them what was wrong with their book. What else do they want from me? But the second skill is the one that’s the most important to get good results. Picture courtesy of Dustin Lee, Unsplash What? What did I just say? That emotions are more important to the revision process than craft? Yes, absolutely I said it. Before I was a writer, I was a counselor, and one thing I learned is that it doesn’t matter nearly as much...
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5 Minute Fiction: Empty Graves

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16 Sep 2019
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If you look at the ground in the desert long enough, you’ll find a body. Whether it’ll belong to the kind of animal with hands or the kind with paws is anybody’s guess. This 5-minute short story is based on an empty grave I found in the Mohave Desert years ago. It wasn’t just a cross: there are loads of those, and most of them are memorials instead of graves. This one was a cross with a mound of dirt just the right size to cover a person, laid carefully with stones to keep animals from digging it up. It was in a remote area where five women had disappeared, and were rumored to have joined a cult whose deserted buildings were also located nearby. Their bodies were never found, and they were never heard from again. For that reason,...
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