Enter the Between

Enter the Between Enter the Between is where I share my journey as a writer. Anything about writing is fair game. Consider me the person in between, passing along information about the writing, publishing and marketing of fiction gathered via research, classes, workshops and personal experience.

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Oat Harvest 2013, What Goes Around Comes Around

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May 8, 2013
Oat Harvest 2013, What Goes Around Comes Around

  The phrase, "What goes around comes around," rings especially true on a farm. So does, "You reap what you sow."   When we began our oat harvest in April, my first thought was, Here we go again. My second...

A Next Big Thing Blog: Ten Questions About My Book

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Mar 10, 2013
A Next Big Thing Blog: Ten Questions About My Book

Blog Hop: easier agreed to than done A Next Best Thing blog hop is a giant game of tag to help readers discover authors who are new to them.  kern.justin / Wedding Photos / CC BY-NC-ND Naomi Williams, one of my former creative writing instr...

Marketing and Blogging Tips from Shawn Hansen, The Indie Book Marketer

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Feb 11, 2013
Marketing and Blogging Tips from Shawn Hansen, The Indie Book Marketer

Sometimes, out of the blue, someone comes along at the perfect moment to point you in the right direction when you come to a fork in the road. For me, that someone was Shawn Hansen, The Indie Book Marketer.  A ...

December 22, Doomsday or Birth Day?

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Dec 20, 2012
December 22, Doomsday or Birth Day?

(This post appeared yesterday on my other website and is slightly edited.) Visionary futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard believes December 22, 2012 is a day to celebrate. And she's doing so big time on what she calls Birth Day – the day after the...

The Bla Bla Meter, Unmask Your Writing Style

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Dec 17, 2012
The Bla Bla Meter, Unmask Your Writing Style

To all writers - be you a novelist, journalist, PR-expert, or writer of Christmas letters - I think you'll get a kick  out of the Bla Bla Meter to "unmask" your writing style. Yep, it detects how much "bull" hides in your text. Bla...

Making sense of our lives through the power and practice of story

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Nov 19, 2012
Making sense of our lives through the power and practice of story

When writing a post recently for Visionary Fiction Alliance about the relevance of visionary fiction in today's world, I realized how important "story" is to our lives.   +Freedomby ~myonlyexceptionisyou I'm not just talking ...

A Letter from Dean Koontz

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Oct 16, 2012
A Letter from Dean Koontz

I've been blogging for over two years, and lately I've been doing some serious soul-searching about the value of working so hard. Then today, I received an email from Dean Koontz about a post I wrote about him at Visionary Fiction Alliance, and...

Writer Welcomes Mother Nature’s Distractions

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Oct 11, 2012
Writer Welcomes Mother Nature’s Distractions

Mother Nature speaks to us in a language we can all understand.  It's the most beautiful language in the world, because it stimulates all our senses and sends invaluable messages to help us navigate our life journey.  During my mo...

Dean Koontz/ Author of Horror or Visionary Fiction?

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Oct 5, 2012
Dean Koontz/ Author of Horror or Visionary Fiction?

 I'd like to introduce you to Visionary Fiction Alliance, a website created to promote visionary fiction. I've written a post there, titled Is Dean Koontz a Visionary Fiction Writer? It starts like this: Dean Koontz is generally c...

Five Top Trends Shaping The Future of Publishing

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Oct 4, 2012
Five Top Trends Shaping The Future of Publishing

Mike Coker I recently attended a sit-up-and-take-notice workshop about how to produce, distribute and sell your work in the evolving eworld, given by Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords.  His opener jolted my wr...