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The Premature End

October 4, 2025

I’m going to do something I shouldn’t because it’s breaking the rules. But I’m going to do it anyway. I’m breaking my blogging pact. Yes, two weeks in, and I want to

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Shame About AI

September 26, 2025

Should people who use AI feel ashamed? Should I feel that way? While researching AI, I found a commenter saying authors who use AI to promote their work should be ashamed of

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The Blogging Pact

September 13, 2025

Can I write a blog post after only getting several hours of sleep? It depends. If I’m aiming for perfection, the answer is no. But if I just want to jot down

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A Story Within a Story

August 28, 2025

Smiling, she swings open the double front doors and steps into the magnificent old house. In front of her is a triple-width staircase that leads to the silent grandfather clock on the

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Children’s Novels and Carol Birds

October 9, 2024

In my post, The Spark, I told you I was updating my first children’s novel, The Angels of Abbey Creek. I was revising the words and, with AI’s help, generating a new

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The Spark

January 26, 2024

I gave up crying, petitioning, begging, “What am I meant to do?” Exhausted by the struggle, I stopped fighting, rolled on my back and rode the waves, content to go wherever the

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True Love

January 12, 2024

I was attracted to the novel The Hundred Loves of Juliet when I realised it was a Romeo and Juliet book: After a bad breakup, Helene Janssen runs away to Alaska to find some peace

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Grand

May 28, 2021

On the fourth last day of autumn, I think: what am I going to do today? Stay inside away from the chilly wind and continue proofreading my third Angels novel? Every time

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The Call

November 7, 2020

As the sun is rising on this cool spring Saturday morning, I hear the carol bird calling. Whoop! Whoop! The notes cut through the air, insistent, demanding attention. My heart listens, and