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2023: External Conflict in Your Plot

As a writer for The Wild Rose Press, I attend their Tuesday night chats (http://chat.thewildrosepress.com/) and have learned a lot from editors and other speakers. Lately the Tuesday topic was conflict in stories by Eilidh MacKenzie, a 15-year veteran editing … Continue reading

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2023: Internal Conflict in Your Plot

As a writer for The Wild Rose Press, I attend their Tuesday night chats (http://chat.thewildrosepress.com/) and have learned a lot from editors and other speakers. This last Tuesday the topic was conflict in stories by Eilidh MacKenzie, a 15-year veteran … Continue reading

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2023: Finish What You Started: Tales From the Slush Pile

How many of you have at least three manuscripts on your computer or in a desk drawer unfinished? How many have six? 10? (okay you may have a problem). As writers we all have brilliant ideas in the middle of … Continue reading

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2023: Enid Author Fest

Yesterday I attended the Enid Public Library’s annual Author Fest.  I was in great company with around 40 of Oklahoma’s best authors.  I’ve done this every year since its inception but every year it just keeps getting better.  I sold … Continue reading

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2023: Flatiron Death Grip

I may have had more fun than is legally allowed writing Flatiron Death Grip Flatiron Death Grip: Chambers, Peggy, Saenz, Gabriella: 9781953589101: Amazon.com: Books. It is a fun urban fantasy that was born from four of my short stories and … Continue reading

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2023: Keystone Lake Mysteries

My Keystone Lake mystery novels revolve around a young attorney who solves mysteries in her hometown of Mannford, Oklahoma. Local fiction is just more fun! In the first book, Blooming Justice, https://books2read.com/u/mggv9D Erin helped bring a rapist to justice on … Continue reading

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2023: Spring Blooms

Spring has sprung. These pictures came from tiny grape hyacinths and forsythia in my yard. As I was taking the picture of the hyacinths, a bee buzzed me. I was unable to capture his likeness for posterity but it made … Continue reading

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2023: Visting Canton Lake

My husband has a new truck and it needed some highway miles, or maybe we did. Yesterday we made a trip to Canton Lake in northwest Oklahoma. It is an area still near and dear to my heart. I grew … Continue reading

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2023: Passing Down Family Memories and Love

In 1947 John Steinbeck wrote a very famous novel titled The Pearl that didn’t end well for the people who found a pearl.  Our family had such a find too, but we fared better with it than the people in … Continue reading

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2023: Conference Time!

It’s beginning to get busy. If you are a writer, conference and contest time is here!  I’ve been busy with entries in the OWFI Conference Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. (OWFI) here in Oklahoma and also my local contest with the … Continue reading

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