Tag: books
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Walking Down the Path
As I mentioned last month, we’re all living that fairy tale life. As authors, we’re writing about life, but in encapsulated vignettes that feature our struggles and dark times before we grow and find resolution. We’re basically writing fairy tales. We’re writing about our time in one section of forest before we come back out…
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A Fairy Tale Life
“Why can’t my life be a fairy tale?” It’s the refrain of every heroine in every romance novel and movie. Or—why limit ourselves?—it’s in every novel on the shelf and movie streaming through the interwebs. What they mean is, “I want to skip to the Happily Ever After.” They want to wake up/have their life…
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Malice and Gardening
This weekend was Malice Domestic and the Agatha Awards. Malice Domestic is a conference celebrating traditional mysteries, cozies, and softer thrillers and noir novels. Malice has the reputation for being *only* for cozy mysteries, or viewing mysteries only through a cozy lens. But, really, it’s for every genre under the mystery umbrella. If you write…
Mindy Carlson 