I’ve passed two milestones regarding Duolingo recently. The first was my four-year anniversary of speaking Hungarian. The second, which happened recently, was the one-year anniversary of speaking Spanish. Duolingo has changed their interface at least four, maybe five times since I started. Two of those major changes happened AFTER I had finished going through all […]
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Yay! Kickstarter has approved my next project. It should go live October 5th. In the meanwhile, feel free to follow along! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835431132/the-water-witch-mysteries
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I have written a lot of books in my time. I’m currently writing book number sixty-five. For the last few books, I’ve been focusing on finding the rhythm for a book, as a tool to help me write better and faster. What do I mean by rhythm? It’s an overall sense of how the story
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The mystery magazine that I edit, Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem (MCM) is stepping into new territories, and will soon have subscriptions available on the MCM site. In addition, readers can now purchase individual issues of MCM from the site. I’m doing all of this work to get ready for Bouchercon, a mystery convention, that takes
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I do a lot of things to help me stay and feel young. For example, all the walking I’m doing in preparation for our walk along Hadrian’s Wall, come September 2024. However, I’ll be sixty-two this December. While I might want to deny that I’m getting older, the fact is, I am. And I can
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I’d been thinking about doing a general update for a few weeks, vacillating between writing an essay versus writing a blog post. Then I went back and I realized that for the last couple of years, right around this time, I always did a general update. So this is kind of a mix between a
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YAY! The Potions and Midlife Notions Story Bundle is now live! This bundle has a special place in my heart, as not only do I have books in it, I curated this bundle. That means I selected all the novels. I also created an anthology that goes with this bundle, the latest issue of Cutter’s
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As I’ve talked about before, sleep isn’t my best friend. I feel like I throw myself at sleep sometimes and I just keep missing. In addition, my sleep needs have changed as I’ve grown older. Until I was in my fifties, I could survive on just six hours of sleep. If I got six hours
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Some people find power in maintaining a streak. Day after day after day, until those days accumulate into months, years, decades, of doing something every single day. I am not one of those people. I keep trying to find and maintain that sort of consistency in my life. I’m not that successful at it, quite
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Way back when, before the plague, I started my Patreon with the idea that I’d be writing about all the traveling I’d be doing. I’d looked at my schedule and I was supposed to be traveling at least once a month, every month, for the following nine months. Plus, there would be additional trips after
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