Good or bad, reviews are a gift

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Reviews are a funny thing. When you’re waiting to be published, published author friends warn you not to read them. With good reason, I’ve realized. A negative review has the power to make you doubt everything.

The cellphone is insidious

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Cellphone is one word now—at least according to the Associated Press. And since AP style is drilled into my head at the day job, one word it shall stay, even if it drives me up

Reviews are trickling in

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I admit, I’ve been nervous about book reviews. Who wouldn’t be after reading the horror stories about authors who refuse to read their reviews … authors devastated by one-star—or, worse, no-star—reviews … Putting my books out

Link love redux

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There’s no shortage of reading material on the ol’ information superhighway. Here are a few of the links I’m loving right now: — I wish I’d seen Nathan Bransford’s post on the art of being