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- The Waiting Game By Laura S. Wharton, author of The Pirate’s Bastard and soon to be released Leaving Lukens
- “Home Is Where Your Story Begins” by Sherrie Hansen
- The Writers’ Booster-and-Energizer Kit by Calvin Davis
- REWRITING REALITY TO CREATE CHARACTERIZATION
- The art of perseverance and writing.
- Pardon, But Your Book is Showing by JJ Dare
- Suddenly Homeless by Christine Husom
- Suspension of Disbelief by Norm Brown
- Labor Day: A Day of Labor
- Finding the Perfect Ending
- Adventures And Culinary Adventures by Pat Bertram
- Coming Soon From Second Wind Publishing: “Dancing at All the Weddings” by Susan Surman
- Wetherby Family Tree
- My Book Trailer Experience by Coco Ihle
- Donations to Clarity by Noah Baird
- Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match by Sherrie Hansen
- Young Adult Novel – A First Attempt – by Deborah J Ledford
- The Loaf Mass
- Adrift in the Sea of Words by JJ Dare
- St. Simons Lighthouse by Pat Bertram
- Featured Author: Noah Baird, Author of Donations to Clarity
- Live out loud
- Connections
- Lost in Cyber Space by Sherrie Hansen
- MY RECENT PHONE CONVERSATION WITH GOD ABOUT MY BOOK
- CHANGE – THE ONLY CONSTANT IN LIFE by Nancy Niles
- Summer-time, and the living is sweaty.
- Infinite Reality by J J Dare
- We’re Project People by Christine Husom
- My First “Published” Writing – by Norm Brown
- Ever Feel Like a Stranger to Your Own Novel?
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 33
- Excerpt from Donations to Clarity by Noah Baird
- Interview with Noah Baird, Author of Donations to Clarity
- The Novel as News, by Paul Mohrbacher
- Soup is good
- My Handy Research Tools by Coco Ihle
- Regency Romances for the Romantic at Heart
- Interview with Calvin Davis, Author of The Phantom Lady of Paris
- Smartphones, eReaders and Tablets…oh my
- Don’t Keep Me Hanging Too Long! by Sherrie Hansen
- Cloud Publishing – Another Opportunity by Deborah J Ledford
- The Real Color of a Beautiful Epiphany by J J Dare
- TALK NERDY TO ME
- Displaced Pudding by J J Dare
- Whose Story Is It? by Pat Bertram
- A little bit of irony in the real world
- MacGyver is Alive and Well
- Walking on Water and Sinking Like a Stone by Sherrie Hansen
- Excerpt from The Phantom Lady of Paris by Calvin Davis
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 32
- Interview with Nancy A. Niles, Author of Vendetta: A Deadly Win
- Starts, Stops and Goodbyes by J J Dare
- Fishing Klinic for Kids in Minnesota by Christine Husom
- You Can Only Run Away by Norm Brown
- Musings on the Art of Writing
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 31
- Why Do People Get Married? by Pat Bertram
- The Healthy Writer…And Reader :)
- Improv and Writing: advice from Denise McInerney
- Dear Emily
- Writing humor in fiction
- First Loves or Second Chances? by Sherrie Hansen
- Sissy Says, Blah, Blah, Blah by J J Dare
- Two Wheel Fashion
- Pssst, Tell Me Your Story, Mister by J J Dare
- Second Wind Publishing $.99 Kindle Sale!
- The Maple Valley Trilogy by Sherrie Hansen
- Interview With Sherrie Hansen, Author of Merry Go Round
- Remember what the weekend is really for
- The Journey
- On Being a Pastor’s Wife and the Pretense of Being Perfect by Sherrie Hansen
- Merry Go Round by Sherrie Hansen
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 30
- Review of Vendetta: A Deadly Win by Nancy A. Niles
- The Fun Side of The Rapture
- May I Help You?
- Escape From the ‘Norm’
- Just When I Think I’ve Seen It All
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 29
- Finding writing time
- Interview with Michael Murphy, Author of Scorpion Bay
- Excerpt from Scorpion Bay by Michael Murphy
- Sisters… Revisiting Maple Valley… by Sherrie Hansen
- Tornado in Cullman
- Home is Where the Mama Is
- Scorpion Bay Book Launch
- Blumechen Slips in the Window Again, Or, characters who keep coming back
- Touchy Subjects
- Celebrating Three New Releases from Second Wind Publishing!
- History Writer’s Dream?
- Life’s Little Disappointments by Sherrie Hansen
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 28
- SETTING OR LANDSCAPE AS A CHARACTER by Nancy A Niles
- When you’re writing, how do you evoke a memory?
- Life Inside the Book
- Truth Be Told
- A Couple of Trends I Have Seen Lately
- One Hot January
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 27
- Creating the Fictional County of Chalcedony
- Images of Betrayal by Claire Collins
- Interview with Coco Ihle, Author of She Had to Know
- She Had to Know by Coco Ihle
- Q&A with Paul Mohrbacher, Author of The Magic Fault
- Writing the Book Only You Can Write by Pat Bertram
- Round and Round and Up and Down… by Sherrie Hansen
- SNARE – Award Update
- Pulling from Life
- Schuyler RIP
- Light Bringer, the Puzzle and the Game
- Celebrating Four New Releases from Second Wind Publishing!
- Take this Quiz and Win Books!
- Celebrating Women’s History
- The Magic Fault by Paul Mohrbacher
- Your Novel as a Musical?
- Secondary Character Syndrome
- The Bully Dynamic
- One Hot January by J. Conrad Guest
- Confessions of a Action Junkie by JJ Dare
- It’s Not A Problem, It’s An Opportunity
- That’s All Folks!
- The Long and Winding Road
- Contest: What Would You Say to Your Eight-Year-Old Self?
- Q&A wtih Jerrica Knight-Catania, author of More Than a Governess
- More Than A Governess by Jerrica Knight-Catania
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 26
- Lucky Charms…
- Plotting vs. “Pantsing”
- Celebrate Read-An-Ebook Week with Second Wind Publishing
- The Truth Shall Set You Free by Sherrie Hansen
- What’s Up?
- Tripping Down Memory Lane
- Kick Your Ass Yoga Class
- Adimpleate to Veteratiorian
- I Wish I Were a Cat by Claire Collins
- Searching in vein for an interesting blog topic…
- Introducing the Authors of Second Wind Publishing
- Heroine or Sidekick?
- Ride A Painted Pony Let The Spinning Wheel Spin – By Sherrie Hansen
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 25
- Reader Participation to Solve A Mystery Within Your Mystery
- Step away from the keyboard and keep your hands where I can see them…
- An Elephant Floating in the Sky
- Why Can’t We See Our Own Mistakes?
- Interview with J. Conrad Guest, author of Backstop and One Hot January
- One Hot January in February
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 24
- Words Yipping at my Heels
- Rubicon Ranch: A Collaborative Novel
- Love is Timeless
- Q&A With Mickey Hoffman, Author of School of Lies
- Blurb advice
- Book Trailer for Borrowed Trouble by JB Kohl and Eric Beetner
- Puppy Love by Claire Collins
- The Agony of an Outline
- Romance Giveaway for Valentine’s Day. Free ebooks! Everybody wins!
- The Alligator or The Leaves? What Are You Focusing On? by Sherrie Hansen
- Excerpt from Borrowed Trouble by JB Kohl and Eric Beetner
- SNARE – New Release Appearances
- A Little Touch of Evil
- CANDLEMAS
- Dead Darling
- The Slang Quiz — Prepare to be Surprised!
- Our Newest Release — SNARE by Deborah J Ledford
- Snare by Deborah J Ledford
- Confessions of a non-romantic
- Thinking of Summer in the Winter
- Roll Out Those Hazy, Lazy, Crazy Days of Winter (by Sherrie Hansen)
- Snare by Deborah J Ledford Has Been Nominated For the Hillerman Sky Award!
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 23
- Tina Munroe, the Protagonist of Vendetta: A Deadly Win
- “POV. Please pick one and be consistent.”
- Vendetta! The Puzzle, the Contest, the Mystery
- The Day After the Music Died
- First Books and Familiar Places
- A Retrospect in Death
- One Hot January Launch
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 22
- Vendetta: A Deadly Win by Nancy A. Niles
- Have You Ever Taken a Vacation That Changed Your Life?
- Keeping the Faith
- Here It Comes
- Ride a Painted Pony, Let the Spinning Wheel Spin… by Sherrie Hansen
- Book Award Season
- Is There Something . . .
- THE MOON AND I
- 2010 in review
- My Olmec Rendezvous
- Last Day to Enter to Win Books for a Year!
- Book Trailer — Staccato by Deborah J Ledford
- Spread the magic…
- Christmas in Hawaii by Sherrie Hansen
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 21
- ALL IS NOT AS IT APPEARS
- What do you get the Muse who has everything?
- CHRISTMAS PAST
- A Bell-Ringing Morning
- A Real Backyard Mystery (Complete With Red Herring)
- The Work of a Writer is Never Done
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 20
- Respecting Language
- Excerpt from Light Bringer by Pat Bertram
- ‘Tis the Season . . .
- Decompressing the Holidays
- Free Books For a Year
- Let It Be
- SNARE – Uncovered
- Christmas Without
- Currier & Ives, Story in a Picture
- How to Get More Readers for Your Blog
- Keep Moving Away From What You Know
- Most Recent Fiction Releases From Second Wind Publishing
- The Pirate’s Bastard by Laura S. Wharton
- Illusions of Grandeur
- Date Night at the Library
- An Attitude of Gratitude by Sherrie Hansen
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 19
- Mental Illness and Characterization
- Thanksgiving: A holiday or the trigger for the countdown to Christmas?
- Blog Jog, Zen and the Art of Motor Trikes, and Our Best Contest Ever
- Team Building Winnebago County Style
- Do Not Lean by Norm Brown
- The Rant Continues
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 18
- Be Bold!
- Rubicon Ranch — The Desert is Heating Up!
- Interesting Facts
- Why I Like E-Books
- RUBICON RANCH – The Suspects are Growing
- Writing Outside the Box
- Pumpkins, etc.
- Rubicon Ranch: Do You Really Know Your Neighbors?
- The Second Chapter of Rubicon Ranch Has Been Posted!
- Rubicon Ranch Video — The Suspects
- The Murder. The Mystery. The Unspeakable Crime.
- With Apologies to the Beatles
- The First Chapter of Rubicon Ranch Has Finally Been Posted!
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 17
- Mental Health and Character Development
- Rubicon Ranch is Days Away!! Read It As We Write It.
- The Importance of Being Important
- The Birth of the Winnebago County Mystery Thriller Series
- By Writing I Desire To Connect
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 16
- Weighty Matters: Turning a couch potato into a potato stick
- A Possibility of Something Wonderful
- Read a good book lately??
- Beginnings
- Vessel
- Locations: Real or Imagined?
- Down the Rabbit Hole
- Dive in.
- Celebrate Our New Releases With Contests and Puzzles, Games and Giveaways
- Four Chances to Win a New Book from Second Wind Publishing
- Celebrating Four New Novels from Second Wind Publishing – Win an Ebook!
- To a Truly Beautiful Person… by Sherrie Hansen
- Some thoughts on Banned Book Week
- The Pirate’s Bastard is Sailing into Port Soon
- What Motivates your Character? by Nancy A. Niles
- Character As Fate by Pat Bertram
- An Altar by the River Release
- Real Villains
- It’s Not How a Novel Finishes But How it Starts—Or is It?
- Mastering Adversity – or – Life in These Economic Times
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
- NYC Remembered
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 15
- Winston-Salem NC Bookmarks Festival
- Sisters in Crime, Indeed
- Possessed by Words
- Getting Old Is Not For Sissies
- The Many C’s of Writing
- The Rooming House, part 6
- What Viral Media can do for Authors
- Where did the summer go??
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 14
- Are You a Truly Beautiful Person? by Sherrie Hansen
- Games Night
- THE WRITER’S ARSENAL, OR TOOL KIT
- Rubicon Ranch: A Collaborative Novel
- Embracing Emotion
- Open Air Concerts by the Lake
- What’s Wrong with Back Story?
- What’s In A Name?
- Do you e-read?
- Tell me about YOU
- The Elegance of Experience
- How do you read?
- Why Writing?
- What Day Is It? by Sherrie Hansen
- Authors You Admire
- Echoes
- Art School Refugee
- Splish Splash, I was Taking a Bath by Sherrie Hansen
- Chekhov’s Gun
- The voices in my head
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 13
- Telling Stories, One at a Time
- Parenting teenagers: any advice is welcome
- What does my character win by losing or lose by winning?
- Everything That Converges Must Emerge (a play on Flannery O’Conner’s wonderful title Everything That Rises Must Converge)
- Podio, Anyone?
- Who Do You Write Like?
- Teaser Alert!
- What do you call the female version of Peter Pan? by Mairead Walpole
- Zigzagging
- Bastille Day
- London!
- Cape May: a favorite spot
- Another One Bites the Dust
- Anthologize me
- Revision: The Result
- A Good Swap by Sherrie Hansen
- Author Blurbs
- A long ago 4th In German’s Mill, PA
- Contest and Giveaway!
- The Rooming House, part 6
- Ebook Giveaway!
- Win Print Copies of Our Mystery Anthologies!!
- Short story by Nichole
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 12
- A Panic Attack from a Different Perspective by Sherrie Hansen
- Social Media: Scary Stuff
- Connect and Disconnect
- Life Beyond the Pavement
- My Father
- The Method to My Particular Madness
- A Dog’s Wisdom
- When Something You Write Makes You Cry
- School’s out for summer…
- Dreaming Too Small?
- Newport, Rhode Island
- Guest blogging
- A Book and A Blog
- Barnhill’s
- Revision or: How Do I Make This Better?
- Class Reunions… a warm, fuzzy feeling of deja vu or the stuff nightmares are made of? (By Sherrie Hansen)
- E-Books – Shaking up the Industry
- Keep Talking – I Need Another Eccentric Character for My Book
- Disaster Movies, etc.
- Journeys
- Coffee, Island Style
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 11
- It’s Complicated…But it doesn’t have to be!
- Verbal Misfires
- Don’t Let Regency Intimidate
- Love it or hate it. What it says about your MC’s state of mind.
- Chick Gross-Out Movies
- An Evening with John Sandford
- A Mosaic of Words and Thoughts by Sherrie Hansen
- Never Judge a Book by Its Cover, but Instead by the Author’s Photo
- Writing what you know (and knowing what you don’t)
- Creating Incredible (but Credible) Characters
- We’re Going to Disney World!
- A Day at Barnhill’s
- Right as Rain
- …Who are you?
- I am a Water Lily – What Flower Are You? by Sherrie Hansen
- Book Club Appearances
- A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To . . .
- Bringing in the May
- Everything Happens For the Best — Oh, Yeah?
- The Rooming House, part 5
- Advice for aspiring writers
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – part 10
- My First Book Signing!
- “Pourquoi pas? Why not?” by Sherrie Hansen
- Writing Noir Fiction by Nancy Niles
- Why Do You Write Fiction?
- The Best Thing About Being a Fiction Writer Is . . .
- An Altar by the River: Sneak Peek
- Out of Order
- “The End” Just the Beginning
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 9
- A New Kind of Kidnapping or an Old Urban Legend
- These are a Few of My Favorite Things
- Writing and the Elusive Muse
- Organization ups your odds
- Inspiration
- THE ETHICS OF THE NEW PUBLISHING WORLD
- When Life Comes Before Writing
- Hoping
- Left Coast Crime Conference Experience
- Excerpt From More Deaths Than One by Pat Bertram
- The Rooming House: part 4
- Excerpt of Ghost Mountain by Nichole R. Bennett
- Help Us Celebrate the Release of Ghost Mountain by Nichole R. Bennett!
- Free E-book!
- Share to win!
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 8
- A Day in the Life…
- In Search of Inspiration… A European Adventure by Sherrie Hansen
- What agents like and don’t like by Lucy Balch
- Using Traditions To Show Character
- The Benefits of Book Fairs
- Transitional Seasons
- Barbed
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – Part 6
- Do you believe in Miracles?
- The acrostic winner is…
- A Book Store is Born
- Literary vs. Genre: A writer’s conundrum
- Personally…
- Oscar Dreams
- Feeling Quizzical? Puzzled?
- Appearances
- Unhand the Book, Cowboy
- In Like a Lamb
- We Have a Winner!
- Help Us Celebrate the Release of Love Trumps Logic by Lucy Balch
- Free Regency Ebook!
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – part 5
- Results of the Regency Quiz & Giveaway!
- Water Lily by Sherrie Hansen – Coming Soon!
- Prizes and Giggles and Games, Oh Yes!
- Imagination: A blessing and sometimes a curse
- A Never-Before-Seen Interview with the Hero of Love Trumps Logic by Lucy Balch
- Got Snow?
- Plot Twists: 3 Little Questions
- Memorable Date at Fenway Park
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – part 4
- A Winning Trilogy: Sex, Love, and Romance
- 14 Days of Valentines!
- Party Time!
- God help me, I’m a Nebraskan
- Always more ideas
- Recognition
- In the Zone by Sherrie Hansen
- Searching For a New Title
- Squeezing Molasses
- Groundhog Ruminations
- And the Winners Are . . .
- Computer trouble? Just call Customer Service
- Win Free Romance Ebooks This Weekend Only!
- Help Us Celebrate Three New Releases!
- Stormy Weather Contest – Check It Out!
- Writing is just another creative outlet
- Regency Quiz and Giveaway!
- Stormy Weather — Flash Flood? — Heat Wave? — by Sherrie Hansen
- Excerpt from Love Trumps Logic
- Gems of Research: Unusual Places, Mysteries Abounding
- Basic Tenets For Good Writing
- Are You Thirsty?
- Reintroducing Characters
- Backstop Part of 2W January Launch Celebration
- Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings by J. Conrad Guest
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – part 3
- Have you seen my muse?
- Once again, the “visit home” has changed it’s meaning.
- Is it spring yet?
- Three months older and a lot wiser
- Contest done!
- Onward into the fray!
- Distractions
- Stormy Weather, Yet Again… by Sherrie Hansen
- Prologue–Yes or No?
- Changes: Welcome, 2010! (You WILL Be a Better Year)
- One Cat Over the Line, Sweet Jesus!
- New Year’s Non-Resolutions
- The Rooming House, Part 3
- Bumping Off My Inlaws
- More resolutions
- The End Is Near – by Deborah J Ledford
- Blessings and the Blues by Sherrie Hansen
- Merry Christmas!
- An Out of Tune Christmas
- Behind the Tree: Musings on Christmas Madness
- Resolutions!
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – part 2
- My First ‘Made Up’ Stories
- The Rooming House Part 2
- Everything in Service to the Story
- ‘Tis the Season for Creativity
- New Release: Stormy Weather by Sherrie Hansen
- Christmas Movies
- Holiday Traditions!
- The gift of giving…
- Getting in the Giving Spirit!
- A Word… or Two
- New Release: A Gentleman Never Tells by Jerrica Knight-Catania
- The Meaning of Profound
- ‘Tis The Season…For Remembering
- I’m a Book Addict
- A Little Advice – by Deborah J Ledford
- Confessions of a Homophoniac
- Major Household Appliances
- A Spark of Heavenly Fire Pre-Anniversary
- The Rooming House
- False World by JJ Dare
- Magical moments don’t just happen in books
- Sunshine and Joy After Rain by Sherrie Hansen
- It’s Thanksgiving
- Mmmm . . . turkey . . . and free books.
- Sweet release
- Writers Write
- New Releases From Second Wind Publishing. Let’s Party!
- Tell Me About it. Maybe I’ll Give You A Book
- Free ebook giveaway of the latest thrillers!
- “False World” Story Contest!
- ‘Tis the Season…To be Thankful!
- Take a Bite Outta Crime – part 1
- A Question in the Night
- New York Subway “friends”
- In Praise of Romance
- Garbled
- Message in a Novel
- Unexpected Dialogue
- Hold Your Tongue!
- Finding Madelyn
- Time Warp
- Keeping conversations real
- If you can’t be an athlete . . . be an athletic supporter.
- And just like that…
- Did You Catch NaNo Fever Yet?
- A Writer’s Retreat
- STACCATO on the Shelf – by Deborah J Ledford
- Guinea Pig Writing
- Hex Signs–folk art or mystery?
- Reality Shows, the Old Frontier
- Writing Without a Reader is Like a Kiss Without a Partner
- Cooking the Books
- A different type of scary
- Staccato: Script vs Novel – by Deborah J Ledford
- I’ll Never Tell – Will You?
- Trick or Treat! Let the Game Begin!
- The Truth About My Toenails
- Waiting…
- Birth of a Novel
- Trick Me, Treat Me, Trick Me
- Copy Edits Plus…
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurence – Part 9
- Serial Killers and Moonlight Towers
- A Novel with No “Front” Story
- Share in the Fun of Daughter Am I
- We Have Not Lost Poetry
- Writing, the Old Fashioned Way
- Ghosts!
- Let the games begin!
- Excerpt from Love Trumps Logic
- I’m Not Really a Princess . . . But I Play One on TV
- Where do you do it?
- Another Breakdown
- My Whirlwind Year as a Second Wind Author
- Happy Bloggiversary to Us!
- Driven to Write
- Bookcase Adventures
- With Gratitude – by Deborah J Ledford
- Characters You Love to Hate!
- Goodies and Giveaways
- Breathing new life into a scene
- YOU ARE INVITED . . .
- “Me and Amelia Earhart” by Sherrie Hansen
- My Greengage Summer by Pat Bertram
- Evisceration. Writing. Potato. Potahto.
- Giving the Hardcover a Hard time by Eric Beetner
- Finding the Right Title
- Novels in Red Ink – A Guide to Surviving Writer’s Heartache
- Reading as an Aphrodisiac
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurence – Part 8
- Which Narrator Type Rules? First Person or Third Person?
- Texting your love life away
- Texting The Novel
- Educating a Muse on Balance
- WIP Jumping
- Savvy Shopping
- Hot Fun in the Summertime
- To comma, or not to comma: that is the question(mark)
- Love Trumps Distance
- Thanks Kids. Mom Loves You. by J.B. Kohl
- People Need Stories by Eric Beetner
- Labor Day GiveAway
- Got Your Book Published? Don’t Panic
- Killed Passages – by Deborah J Ledford
- Curiosity Made the Monkey Bite Me
- Hang Up and Drive
- Giving 110% 24/7 by Pat Bertram
- Help! There’s a writer under my pillow!
- Buried in Wolf Lake Chapter 14
- Serializing the Novel
- Thoughts on proofing a novel
- Staccato: Novel Tie-In – by Deborah J Ledford
- Have You Heard the Latest Forecast? Stay Tuned for Stormy Weather!
- Another Ball in the Air
- On Collaboration by J.B. Kohl
- On Writing by Eric Beetner
- Addictive
- Ten Lessons I Learned (The Hard Way): A Publisher’s Reflections on the First Year
- What Second Wind Book Do You Wish to Read? You Might Get Your Wish!
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurence – part 7
- The Marfa Lights
- Last Meal?
- Plagiarism
- The Wisdom of The Rolling Stones
- Getting There
- Cicada Time
- When it Rains, it Pours!
- Fluffy nonsense
- To Be Tattooed
- Night and Day… A Month of Milestones (by Sherrie Hansen)
- Third Chapter of Buried in Wolf Lake
- Staccato: Concept-by Deborah J Ledford
- Siren Song of The Novel
- The Great Sammu
- As Busy as a . . .
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Conclusion.
- Revivin’ the Drive-In
- Lazarus Barnhill’s Newsletter
- Non-fiction vs. Fiction: Lucy Balch’s perspective
- Staccato: Inception-by Deborah J Ledford
- Lost – Ode to a Manuscript Gone Missing
- Why are we here?
- Introducing Lazarus Barnhill
- You’re a What?
- Charitable Giving
- Congratulate the Winner of the Second Wind Short Story Contest!
- Developing Character: How much is too much?
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurance – part 6
- To Kindle or not to Kindle
- Naysayers and Online Promotion
- Heroine Smugglers and Aroused Geese
- Is being realistic in actuality a form of pessimism or vice versa? by Mairead Walpole
- Short Story Contest — Now It’s Up to You!
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurence – part 5
- Vertigo and The Battle of Saratoga
- TIME TO WAKE UP!
- Margay Leah Justice in the Spotlight
- Writing Process Anomaly
- Beauty in Your Own Back Yard
- Whose Idea Is It Anyway?
- Do Guest Authors Stifle Frank Discussion?
- Water me, please!
- Steal This
- Serial Bob
- The Stygian Night — Sneak Preview of My Short Story
- Disclaimers and the “New”
- The Moment You Didn’t Know You Were Waiting For
- The hobby in ‘Love Trumps Logic’
- Muses and Inspiration-by Deborah J Ledford
- Don’t Sell Yourself Short
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part 8.
- How Social Are You?
- Funny and Sweet – Time’s running out!
- Who is the Creepiest Character You’ve Created?
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurence – part 4
- The Adventures of EnviroBoy and the Recycler: Teaching kids about being green
- Romance Elements – I’m Over It!
- Short Story vs. Novel by Norm Brown
- Potholes in Memory Lane
- My BlogTalk Interview. What Fun!
- Social Networking: the theory of Six Degrees of Separation
- Second Wind Interviews Wil VanLipsig “The Lone Wolf”
- Lists to Ponder and Plans to Make
- After Aunt Jean Died
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurence – part 3
- Ready for the Close-Up
- First Chapter of Fate and Destiny By Claire Collins
- Midnight in Minnesota and Daybreak in Denmark
- The First Commandment of Writing
- Oscar Friedman’s Freakish Occurence – part 2
- An Author’s Reward
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part 7.
- Reviews and Tiger Stripes
- A Birthday
- Becoming Pat Bertram
- What’s in a Language?
- Short Story Contest! Your Chance to Get Published!
- Lucy Balch says, “Hello!”
- The Importance of Imagery–by Deborah J Ledford
- Working Hard When You Could Be Reading OR Reading When You Should Be Working Hard
- Oscar Friendman’s Freakish Occurence – part 1
- WhoHub Interview with Claire Collins
- “Buried in Wolf Lake” First Chapter Excerpt
- Blog Block – Kind of like Writer’s Block
- When Does Constructive Criticism Cross the Line?
- “Round One – Fight!”
- Who are you talking to?
- Time Flies
- Pat Bertram Is Two Years Old Today!
- Where do your stories come from?
- Creating a Story: Sanctuary in the Midst
- May 8th
- Tulips
- Writing Dialogue
- Working Through the Negative
- To the women…by Claire Collins
- Older Heroines, Younger Heroines – Which Are Best?
- First Chapter of Images of Betrayal by Claire Collins
- Remembrance
- What Do Fourth Graders Know About Genres?
- Hooking a Reader
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part 6.
- A Spark of Heavenly Fire Is In the Spotlight!
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part 5.
- Busting the Block
- Cultivate Subtlety: Throw Out Your First Chapter
- How Can You Be a Writer if You’re Not a Reader?
- Land Cradled By the Waves
- Author Spotlight for the week.
- Waiting
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part 4.
- Synchronicity
- A Weeping Moment
- Who inspires you?
- Character Questionnaire – Gabriella Deza “Indian Summer”
- What Makes a Hero? by Norm Brown
- Featured Author
- Images of Betrayal by Claire Collins (Review)
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part 3.
- It’s Time to Tell the World! or Marketing, the Old-Fashioned Way…
- Hard Times Call For…
- Kitty’s Good Idea
- On Any Given Sunday
- Bookaholics Anonymous
- Thinking Outside the Box: Rejection – It’s Not Just for Writers…
- How Much Spice Is Too Much?
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part 2.
- At A Loss
- Who Really Owns Your Characters?
- Lazarus Barnhill Interviews Pat Bertram
- Kindle Books
- Losing a Character
- First Chapters–Hand-me-Down Bride
- Calling All Readers!
- The Strange Disappearance of Comrade Wang. Part One.
- Murder in Winnebago County Prologue
- Backups and Travel
- Sound and Fury
- SNOW DAYS AND WRITING
- Far and Away or Near and Dear?
- Writing Process – Timelines
- A READER’S GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT
- The War of Revisions
- Coloring Your Way Out of Writer’s Block
- Characters With a Life All Their Own
- Learning to Let Go: Creativity in Children
- Why Do I Write?
- Word Infatuation
- Going Postal
- Pat Bertram Introduces Alden Cameron Lindsay Scott, the Duke of Buccleuch and Monmouth, and the Hero of A Love Out of Time by Mairead Walpole
- Conflict: Where a Story Begins
- Reflections on Being Published…
- Hibernation
- The ghosts of “Due South”
- Are Book Sales on the Decline?
- Books in the Entertainment World
- One Introvert’s Guide to Reading at Book Signings
- INVOKING ATMOSPHERE AND EMOTIONS
- Hide and Seek
- Balance
- The wonderful world of E-books and the migraine that ensues!
- Just Do It
- A New Era in Publishing
- Who Ate My Marshmallows?
- I See You
- Cat Names
- Stalking the Perfect Song
- The funny side of trouble
- Chat with Second Wind Authors
- The Night is Darkest Just Before the Dawn
- Pleasant Reaction
- Patting Your Back
- The Future of Publishing
- Where does your city rank?
- So…which character am I?
- Memories As Writing Material
- Step by Step
- Idol Moments
- “More Deaths Than One” Contest Entries
- Snow Days and Writing
- It’s All About Traditions — When to Cling to the Old Ones, and When to Try Something New…
- For the Love of Romance
- Day in the Life Method of Writing Historical Novels
- B.0.B. Cat
- Humanizing the Villain
- Why is reading a “romance” considered a negative by some?
- Watching People
- Welcome to the Land of No “No”s
- One-eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater by Claire Collins
- A Marketing Neophyte Meets the World (Wide Web, That Is)
- Getting your readers to care about your characters
- What is Your Character’s Favorite Color? — by Pat Bertram
- Leaping into the Unknown
- A Constant Reader
- When a Character Won’t Do What You Want
- Breather’s Block
- “More Deaths Than One” Contest. Win Free Books!
- Titled To Sell!
- The Odd Quack of My Muse
- Writing Laughter for Hard Times
- The Ring (100-Word Story)
- The Heart of Love
- Getting What You Want
- An Interview with Two
- How do you know when the storyline is done?
- Beating the Block
- Fictional Characters Don’t Read Writing Books
- Hijacked
- Three
- Finding Time for Writing
- What Do You Call an Unpublished Writer? by Pat Bertram
- Becoming a Brand
- Writing is a Many-Splendored Thing
- The lure of the dark-side – anti-heroes and anti-heroines
- Diversity Among Colleagues
- From Conception to Birth, Or One Book’s Journey to Publication
- Animalistic Behavior
- Working through Writer’s Block
- Requiem for a Novel
- Holiday Shopping – A Happy Accident
- Looking Back, First
- When Good Crafts Go Bad – A Holiday Blog
- Dawn of a New Year
- Today is a Good Day to Write
- The Beat Goes On
- The Locket (100-Word Story)
- Tis the Season
- The Blank Page
- It’s the holidays and all I want to do is Write!
- Your Chance to Have a Story Published by February
- When Good Crafts Go Bad.
- Dear Santa
- Laughter
- Could Novel Writing Actually Be Good for You?
- Stories Are as Necessary to Us as Love
- Feeling Like a Celebrity
- Winter Weather
- My Exciting Week
- Pens, Paper, and Word – Oh, My
- The Eagles in Concert
- How to Tell If You’re a Writer
- A Marketing Neophyte Meets the World (Wide Web, That Is)
- The Big Picture
- Book Marketing the Old-fashioned Way
- Quidnunc’s Observations
- The Art of Fluff
- Red Dirt Spring
- Chance for writers! Contest!
- In the Midst of Madness
- Don’t You Just Love a Parade (How Not to Do a Booksigning)
- Timing Is Everything
- Long Row to Hoe
- Can you judge a book by its cover?
- A Day of Thanks
- Death Row — A Drabble (100-word Story).
- Reflections of Gratitude
- The War at Home
- Killing those we love.
- What a Character
- Prime People Watching
- How to Write Like a Bestselling Author
- Tomorrow Will Come
- Help! I’ve written myself into a corner and I can’t get out…
- Finding a Comfortable Voice
- How a story grows
- Designated Reader
- When Is It Real?
- Rowing Against the Current
- Videos
- Research
- A completely new life!
- That First Perfect Word
- Nora’s Soul Excerpt
- The Critique
- Are We There Yet?
- Names Define Your Characters
- POW!
- Interview with the Author
- My Book Signing Experience
- Is There a Home for Lacey
- NAME RECOGNITION
- Character Evolution
- Sleeping With Cats
- My advice for anyone who says… “I want to write a book.”
- The Art of Procrastination
- A Buford Ghost
- The Whys and Wherefores of Pagan Practices and Holidays
- Trick
- Fulfillment — A Halloween Drabble (100 word story)
- Stories to Scare the Young
- All Fade Away
- Phobia
- AS A WRITER, WHERE AND HOW ARE YOU DROPPING YOUR PEBBLES?
- The Garden
- Inspiration from The Creature
- Outside the Box
- Witches Should Never Try to Be Very Good
- Reebdoog’s Halloween Horror
- Happy Halloween from Second Wind Publishing
- If you have to explain it isn’t working.
- The Birth of My Androgynous Writing
- An Interview with Dante
- Hands, Feet, Fingers, Toes
- Second Wind Interview with Dellani Oakes
- Extra Words
- Never take a dare?
- COMMUNICATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD
- Hitting the Beat
- Why They’re Called “The Opposite Sexes”
- Write Intelligently. At Least Until You Become A Bestselling Author
- Interview: Mortals, Gods, and a Muse, Aphrodite
- Permission — A Drabble
- Interview with Doug from the novel Fate and Destiny
- Interview with Shadow from the novel Fate and Destiny
- The Facts About Superstitions
- Inspiration on a Short Leash
- Answering the question: “Why did you write a novel?”
- Setting the Scene
- To Pseudonymize or Not to Pseudonymize
- E-publishing , Print on Demand (POD), and Kindle Markets-Are They The Wave Of The Future?
- My extended family
- The Very First Book…
Thank you Mike Simpson for your critique on “Thunder Of The Coming Storm”. I am a first time author and I appreciate the time you took in reviewing my novel. I will be reviewing my work with your comments in mind. Once again, thank you , Vince Ferrigno