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When Life Gets in the Way of Writing by Lisa J. Peck-MacDonald

You want to write, but unfortunately, at the moment, you have a life. A very demanding one. One of those kinds of life’s where you don’t know how to squeeze in more writing time, and you are too attached to your sleep to give it up. I have one of those lives, too. I stopped …

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On Board the Barbara Vey Reader Appreciation Cruise with Traci Andrighetti

Ahoy, mateys! I recently returned from the first-ever Barbara Vey Reader Appreciation Cruise. On January 12, I set sail from Fort Lauderdale with a boatload of authors and readers for Labadee, Haiti, and Falmouth, Jamaica. Talk about high seas hijinks! The Barbara Vey event was my second cruise but my first as an author interacting …

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Prioritize Your Writing in 2018 by Lisa J. Peck-MacDonald

Happy 2018, everyone! I hope your year has launched with a great start. It’s almost impossible in our culture, at least in America, to have January come around and not at least think about goal setting. New Year’s resolution is easily one of USA’s favorite pastimes. Breaking those very same goals in February, or sooner, …

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Killer Creativity: Write Mystery Like No One Is Editing with Traci Andrighetti

I’ve had a lifelong obsession with language. Before I became a mystery writer and freelance editor, I wrote and edited in-house and public-facing documentation for Apple. Prior to that I taught Italian at the University of Texas and translated literature into my native language, English. The Perils of Perfection My passion for Italian and …