The following is a chapter from Business for Breakfast, Volume 1: The Beginning Professional Writer. The ebook is available from Amazon, Kobo Books, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, and the paper version is available from Createspace. However, if you’re like most writers (broke!) I will also be posting a chapter a week, so you’ll merely have […]
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I got a coffee bean roaster for Christmas and have been having mad, wild science experiments with coffee beans ever since. My roaster came with five pounds of green beans. I got two pounds of what they describe as “starter beans.” These are beans that handle heat well
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The following is a chapter from Business for Breakfast, Volume 1: The Beginning Professional Writer. The ebook is available from Amazon, Kobo Books, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, and the paper version is available from Createspace. However, if you’re like most writers (broke!) I will also be posting a chapter a week, so you’ll merely have
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I’m not working on a novel right now. Instead, I’m writing a short story a week (sometimes two) for an upcoming workshop. It’s been a lot of fun, lots of different characters and ideas. Possibly the start of a couple of series characters (if I can convince my butterfly brain to write about the same
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The following is a chapter from Business for Breakfast, Volume 1: The Beginning Professional Writer. The ebook is available from Amazon, Kobo Books, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, and the paper version is available from Createspace. However, if you’re like most writers (broke!) I will also be posting a chapter a week, so you’ll merely have
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And yes, I have a short story in it–“The Messenger”–a historic short story set in the 1890s about the Chinese Tong in Vancouver, Canada. My story doesn’t appear in the regular Fiction River edition. My story is only possible because of the generosity of Marc Lefebvre and Kobo. They helped create the Kobo special edition,
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The following is a chapter from Business for Breakfast, Volume 1: The Beginning Professional Writer. The ebook is available from Amazon, Kobo Books, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, and the paper version is available from Createspace. However, if you’re like most writers (broke!) I will also be posting a chapter a week, so you’ll merely have
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My first business book is now available! The first in the Business for Breakfast series! Here’s the blurb: Until now, as a writer, all you’ve focused on is the Craft of writing. However, your writing is not the same thing as your business. This book gives you a combination of career and writer/life advice to
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For me, 2014 was kinda awesome. I quit the day job. Started writing full time. Fell deeper in love with my sweetie. Wrote some great stories, things I’m really proud of. Traveled to New Zealand, as well as returned to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Was only sick twice (TWICE!!! When I used to get
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I decided to put Paper Mage on sale for the Kobo Boxing Week Sale! I’m impressed with the number of sales. Still don’t know if I’ll do it again. But this has been really nice. So I figured I’d mention it again – that Paper Mage is currently 35% off at Kobo. The promo code