M F Lamphere
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Today I had the honor of participating in a discussion about Journaling at the Forest Hills Country Club. Hosted by the Rockford Network of Professional Women and facilitated by Kelly Epperson Simmons, I was part of an impressive panel that included guests Melanie Perry and Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli. This experience in one word? WOW. Now, there are any
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It’s November and with November comes National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo for short. NaNo for shorter. This is the sixth year I’ve participated. I LOVE NANO. I like having an external deadline, November 30, and an expected outcome, 50,000 words. I like being forced to make time to accommodate those goals. I like the camaraderie of other
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I have my first official book signing for my novel, Pocket Money, on Sunday, October 9, at a wonderful Indie bookstore called Mystery to Me in Madison. I’ll be sharing an author panel with Kristin Oakley, who was kind enough to initiate this event, and YA author Kathleen Tresemer. Kristin is the author of God on Mayhem Street,
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I recently read a blog post weighing the pros and cons of hiring a publicist for your novel. In the article it said, “But in a sea of authors, how will potential readers know about your book?” This comment really struck me. Visually. A SEA! Vast, cresting, full of creatures. But in my vision, the sea
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Everyone is familiar with the question, Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Alas, my pondering for this holiday is not so ponder-ous. Knowing my recent history (moving and publishing), I ask, which shall come first–book two or the unpacking of boxes? Remember, it took me ten years to publish. And nineteen years to
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I don’t have a tattoo. It’s not that I’m against them, it’s just that I’ve never found a design worth permanently attaching to my body. But a lot of people I know have tattoos. I’ve accompanied several to the tattoo parlor and witnessed the process. Heck, I’ve even helped select the font they were permanently attaching
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If you waited until you were ready, you’d never do it. It’s messy. No matter your expectations, at some point you have to realize it is it’s own entity. It takes a village. Regardless of how the little bugger is received, you can’t help but be damned proud. Pocket Money is available through Amazon, Kindle, and
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The protagonist is male. In the early stages of beta reading, people were occasionally confused, thinking it was a girl. Maybe because I wrote it and I’m a girl?When I corrected them, they would say, well, it could be a girl. Maybe…but it’s not. (And really, it couldn’t be.) I hope it’s clear in the
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Ideas are easy. Coming up with new ideas for a story and developing a plan are easy. Verbalizing a synopsis of your story, or just telling it, is easy. Hitting the high points, introducing your characters, and bringing it all together in a two minute monologue–that’s easy. Writing is hard. Connecting those plot points is hard. Organizing the
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