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When Flowers, Kindness, and Coupons Lead to Mischief

A wise coworker wondered if shopping at several different stores just to get bargains was a good idea. I compare prices before going market shopping, but she suggested that I might spend the money in gas. Giant is having a special where they double the dollar coupons next week, but most of the groceries on [...]

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Revisions…and then More Revisions

Over the months, I’ve alluded to a sequel to Dark Side of the Moon: Steel Rose. Steel Rose wound up with its own cast of characters, so I can’t call it a sequel any more. Maybe this is good. At workshops, speakers have advised everyone to put their manuscripts aside for a few weeks, and [...]

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CreateSpace versus Lulu

My mother once told me that when you leave your old street for a new street, you know what you’re leaving, but you don’t know what you’re going to find. I kind of felt that way when some of my fellow small press publishers encouraged me to do my NTD printing through CreateSpace. The royalties [...]

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The Call of the Wild

I never thought I would blog about my balloon collection, but as the cliché goes, never say never. Today was an unusual day for grocery trips. I went to a different supermarket, one that didn’t tempt me to buy balloons. More bad weather is coming our way, so I concentrated on buying supplies. I decided [...]

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To Lie or not to Lie – that is the question.

I’m referring to one of the verbs that give me and other writers a lot of grief – the difference between lie, lay, and laid. That and certain words that mean one thing when used as a compound, and something else when used separately, can mess up an otherwise well-written tale. And so therein “lies” [...]

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Branding and Facebook

When a workshop leader coaxed everyone to promote their books through branding, I left the workshop confused. To my literal mind, “branding” refers to a cowboy who brands his cattle, marking it as his own, or the trademark a company uses to identify its products.  Then Facebook gave me an appreciation for branding. I’ve enjoyed [...]

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Forthcoming Interview and other Night to Dawn News

On September 9, 2010, Art Sippio and Ric Croxton of http://thebookcave.libsyn.com/ will interview author Tom Johnson and me about The Spider’s Web and Tom’s other NTD books. Tom will discuss his favorite character, Black Ghost. I will be discussing Dark Side of the Moon and a potential sequel; also Twilight Healer and Blood Moons and [...]

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When Your Tales Contain Too Much Clutter…

Yesterday, I learned about the evils of clutter when I purchased an outdoor trashcan and attempted to load it into my Honda Fit. It looked so easy. Folding down the back seats would give plenty of room for my purchase…except so much stuff had congregated in the back seats and floor. Bending the trashcan wasn’t [...]

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The Making of a Website

Somewhere down the pike, after the publication of Twilight Healer, I hired company ABC to build a website. Someone suggested I do my own website, but most hosted websites require HTML coding. Up until a few years ago, I thought HTML was an abbreviation for Hotmail. Enough said on the HTML skills department. ABC built [...]

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Barbara Custer Gets Awarded a Creative Blogger Award

I’ve just received word that I am the recipient of a Creative Blogger Award. I’m flattered and appreciative that my blog would be awarded in such a way. Thank you, Cynthia, for passing on this honor. There’s more! In conjunction with the award I’m going to give you five details about myself, and one of [...]

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