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Book Talk 12/6/19: Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Surviving the Transition Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 12/6/19: Kristine Kathryn’s Rusch’s Surviving the Transition Traci Kenworth Surviving the Transition by Kristine Kathryn Rusch WMG Publishing Amazon’s blurb: Most writers run their careers the same way they did in the 1990s. But publishing has changed so much since then that any writer who works on the old model will no longer…
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Five Links 11/30/19 Traci Kenworth
Five Links 11/30/19 Traci Kenworth Writing: 1. https://megdowell.com/2019/11/24/the-things-we-give-up/ “According to my Fitbit app, I haven’t gone for a run in almost three weeks. Yikes. As I am writing this, that means the last time I laced up was November 3. And that has nothing to do with the weather, which has been unfavorably wet and…
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Book Talk 11/15/19: Update Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 11/15/19 Update Traci Kenworth I’m reading Joanna L. Going’s How to Write a YA Novel: Class is in Session, Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard, The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith, and The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (been waiting a while for this one!)
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Book Talk 10/25/19 Update Traci Kenworth
Book Talk 10/25/19: Update Traci Kenworth I’m reading Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass (so awesome!), Windwitch by Susan Dennard (another wonderful worldbuilding novel), Neferet’s Curse (so creepy) by P.C. and Kristin Cast, The Girl from the Well (beyond creepy) by Rin Chupeco, Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi (talk about fascinating), and Sightwitch…
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Excerpt for The Widow of Rose House
Excerpt from Chapter Three By Nicole Tone Her heart raced. There was a crushing weight on her chest that made it impossible to catch her breath. The voicemail alert went off and Sophie shook. First her hands, then her teeth, chattering like it was the dead of winter. Did she want this night ruined too?…
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Writing on the Darkside
Writing on the Darkside Traci Kenworth A lot of people get nervous when I tell them what I write. I imagine anyone who writes scary stories or horror encounters the same reaction. Add to the mix that I’m a Christian, and the eyebrows raise pointedly. The truth is, there’s a…
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Do You Like Mystery in Your Horror?
Do You Like Mystery Involved with Your Horror? Traci Kenworth In the horror stories you read, do you like a bit of mystery involved with who/what the monster/evil etc. is? Or do you like to know up front what’s involved (vampires, werewolves, clowns) so you can dig into who the characters are and what…
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Another day off…
Sorry, everyone. The book review for this week will be set back till the following one. Welcome to summer on Wednesday!! It’s this and the kids being out of school that have my time dwindling for reading, blogging, writing, etc. Oh, and the third week of recovery from surgery is going well, thank God!! Just…
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Reading
Reading: How Important is it to Writers? Traci Kenworth The more you read, the better you become as a writer. You’ve heard this before from other authors, people in the industry, etc. But the question is: how important is it? Very. When we read, we open our minds to knowledge, entertainment, and more. Some…



