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Practice Smarter, Not Harder – Catch Your Dream
My husband bought this crazy exercise program with the brainstorm I’d try it with him. I’m more athletically challenged than anything else, and I laughed at him when he suggested it. There was no way....
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Launch Pad Contest Win
Over the summer, I’ve been furiously editing and revising my novel, The Breakout. I’ve submitted to agents, worked on query letters and the synopsis, and entered contests. Today, I found out my book...
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The Gong Show – Catch Your Dream, part 6
Five literary agents sat at a table across the front of the room. At least two hundred hopeful writers filled the audience, waiting. A basket full of anonymous query letters was to be read out loud for...
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Launch Pad Contest Update
Last month, I wrote about the 2013 Launch Pad Contest by Novel Rocket. My novel, The Breakout, won the Speculative Fiction Category. I’m so excited to say I found out today that The Breakout was...
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Cha-Cha-Cha Chia! – Catch Your Dream, Part 7
“Hey, you want to be an artist? Ain’t no money in that.” – Si Robertson, Duck Dynasty I love A & E’s hit show Duck Dynasty. The Robertson family grew their small duck call building business from a...
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Launch Pad Contest Update
This past week, I was really excited to find the trophy for the 2012 Launch Pad Contest had arrived at my house. I’ve written on my blog a lot about catching your dream. This moment was truly part of...
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Create Every Day
Inspiration for my day. Thought I’d share. Enjoy! What creative thing have you done today?
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Pitch Madness Success
These past couple of weeks been a pretty crazy roller coaster ride. I entered the 2013 Pitch Madness Contest hosted by the amazing Brenda Drake, Shelley Watters, Sharon M. Johnson and Summer Heacock,...
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Taking Home a Piece of the DFW Writers’ Conference
Permission to fail. I’ve failed at a lot of things in my life, though I’d like you to believe I haven’t. Tests in college, performing the perfect flute solo. Oh yeah, and the one recital performance I...
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How to Write Like a Pro: 5 Tips for Killer Loglines
You sit down at the lunch table and the lady next to you asks, “What is your book about?” You stutter and ramble, string together an incoherent paragraph together that basically sums up any number of...
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