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It’s Camp Nanowrimo — again!

July 7, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

If you’ve been hanging around here for a while, you probably know that I write for Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) in November and Camp Nano in April and July every year. The goal in Nanowrimo is to write a book of 50,000 words or more during the month. During the “camps” you can set your own goals, which can be words or hours, however many you like. During Camp Nano, you used to be assigned to a virtual cabin, a message board with a number of other authors, where you could chat with and encourage each other. Things have changed a little with their website overhaul, but it is still a fun even to participate in.

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Encourage a Young Writer Day

April 8, 2021 / 4 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

What a great idea! I know that I was interested in writing from a very early age. I have little construction paper books that I stapled together and scribbled in before I could even read or write. I have a number of stories and little books that I wrote while I was still in elementary school, and I wrote my first novel-length book when I was twelve.

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What’s Coming Next?

December 10, 2020 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

I have a little break here between various releases and promotions, before having to come up with a really awesome Christmas post, and thought I would just give a few details on what is coming down the pipe from P.D. Workman.

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My 2020 Bookiversary

October 21, 2020 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

October is the anniversary of publishing my first book. (The first book I published, not the first book I wrote—that was not fit for publication.) Believe it or not, that was back in 2013. I was dipping my toes into the publishing world to see whether it would be possible for me to write full time as my office job wound down in on a predicted five-year timeline.

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National Creativity Day

May 28, 2020 / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

May 30 is National Creativity day, a day to embrace your creativity and to foster it in those around you. What’s your thing?

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Project Planning, Scheduling, and Bullet Journal

March 26, 2020 / 9 minutes of reading / 2 Comments

I’ve read several articles or posts recently talking about how Bullet Journals are ineffective and take too much time and do not result in productivity. The complaint that a lot of people have is that a Bullet Journal requires you to make fancy layouts that need to be constantly redrawn, which takes a lot of time and is more artsy than productive.

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The year ahead

January 23, 2020 / 1 minute of reading / Leave a Comment

With the advent of a new year, you maybe wondering what you can expect to see from my pen this year. Or maybe you’re not, but I thought it was a good topic for the beginning of the year.

Since my cozy mysteries have been doing well, that is much of my focus for this year.

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Writing for Nanowrimo

November 21, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

If you’ve been following me here for a while, you know that I generally participate in Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) every year. A lot of people complain that November is too busy for trying to write a novel, but thousands of people around the world do it every year. Maybe it’s crazy to do it the month before Christmas, but is there really any perfect month to write a novel?

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Giving thanks

October 10, 2019 / 1 minute of reading / Leave a Comment

This Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving. I read a few internet articles talking about the differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving, besides the obvious difference in dates, of course. There are more similarities than differences between our observances. According to the Wikipedia article, “The theme of the Thanksgiving holiday also changed each year to reflect an important event to be thankful for,” but that has not been the case for almost one hundred years.

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It’s my bookiversary

September 26, 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Six years ago, I published Looking Over Your Shoulder, my first book. Not the first book that I had written by a long shot, but the first book that I decided to share with the world! Since then, I have published another 48 books, along with a number of translations, collections, and audiobooks.

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