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Catch up with me all over the place!

Last week I had two guest posts go live!

How can you find your character’s arc?

Character arcs, a character’s journey of internal change and growth, are an important part of making any story satisfying. It helps readers to relate to your story and root for your character. The external plot, the action and events of the story, affects every character, but do your characters grow and change on an emotional level?

A quick look at the topic that comprises the whole first chapter of my book on the subject over at the Dauntless Authors blog!

And how to survive the soul-sucking darkness that is self-publishing:

I think all first-time authors reach “the other side” of publishing when their book hits the shelves—and all is not rainbows and roses. The soul-sucking darkness affects all publishing, really. Even if we have backing of a publisher, we don’t know what to expect when our book finally hits the market. When we venture out without that backing, we have one less assurance that our work is good. But no matter what path we take to share our work, we can stay sane staring into that soul-sucking darkness!

Yep, it’s my monthly post for the Indie Authors column at Fiction University! Read it here.

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Where in heck am I?

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Rather than kludge the post title into a reference to my book title, I’m going to tell you a story. Once upon a time, my mother was studying English at a very conservative, religious university. (Where I also went; not knocking it, just setting up the story.) For one of her classes, Mom read Dante’s Inferno (and probably the rest of The Divine Comedy, too). She brought her text with her to work on campus.

Okay, I mentioned how super-super conservative this university is? Like, swearing-(among-many-other-things)-is-verbotten conservative. ‘Kay.

So her boss took great delight in greeting my mother each day: “Where in Hell are you today, Diana?”

Well, I’m laughing. Humor comes from the unexpected, right?

Anyway, I’ve been out and about in the blogosphere this week! Come catch up with me:

Some recent reviews from Melissa at Reading It All and Freda at Freda’s Voice.

Yesterday, I, Spy was featured at Workaday Reads! Since it’s set in Canada, I, Spy also qualifies for Workaday Reads’ Canadian Reading Challenge!

Today, you could find a brand new excerpt from Chapter Two of I, Spy at Lisa is a Bookworm!

And tomorrow, come learn about the setting I didn’t use at Darlene’s Book Nook.

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