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  • New Amazon Author Promotional Forum

    I found a new forum on Amazon where authors can promote their books without fear of stepping on readers’ toes. It’s called “self promoting authors.” Here’s the link: http://www.amazon.com/tag/self%20promoting%20authors/forum/ref=tag_cdt_hd_icd “Books Unmolded: crossing genres, breaking cookie-cutters” is a discussion thread I just started on this forum. My first post: Do you write to fit the cookie-cutter…

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  • Six Cats In My Kitchen receives 5 star review:

    “I opened this book up on my kindle basically to glance over the first several pages to ensure the download came through properly, and found myself hard-pressed to set it down. It is written in a conversational style that made me feel as if I was listening to a friend chatting with me over a…

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  • Kindle Books in Germany!

    I forgot to pass on today’s big news from Amazon. Kindle books are now available in Germany (and I think Austria) on Amazon.de! So if any of my German friends are in the mood for an old fashioned western with a surprising twist, you can now purchase Darlin’ Druid from your own Amazon.de site. Or…

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  • My Love/Hate Relationship with Tech

    I’ve mentioned before that I’m no techie, right? More than once, come to think of it. Well, here I go again. When my son helped me set up my first blog site on blogspot last summer, little did I know what I was getting into. I mean literally, I did not know anything about writing…

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  • Good News for E-book authors

    E-book Sales Top All Other Book Format Types in February – HotHardware

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  • What is Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder (CMT)?

    “Charcot-Marie-Tooth, or CMT, is the most commonly inherited peripheral neuropathy and is found worldwide among all races and ethnic groups. Discovered in 1886 by three physicians, Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, and Howard Henry Tooth, CMT affects an estimated 2.6 million people.” (Quoted from the CMT Association) I have CMT type 1-X. I have traced it…

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  • Girl Pens Tale of High-flying Goose

    http://quest.mda.org/news/young-author-cmt-pens-tale-high-flying-goose I found this on the My MDA site. It’s an inspiring story about a young girl with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease who wrote a children’s book. Enjoy!

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  • Your New Best Friend: The Word “No”

    Your New Best Friend: The Word “No”.

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  • 4 1/2 Stars for DD from Paranormal Romance Guild

    Darlin’ Druid – Lyn Horner “Set in the American West of 1872, Darlin’ Druid is a tale of epic adventure, stormy romance and family strife, sparked by flashes of Druid magic. Jessie Devlin, a daughter of Irish immigrants and a survivor of the Great Chicago Fire, is descended from the “Old Ones,” her mother’s name…

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  • Six Cats sample chapter

    My memoir Six Cats In My Kitchen is now available on amazon.com. I formerly posted Six Cats as a serialized book on another blog site, with links to it here. Although I’ve removed the chapters now that the book is for sale, I am posting the first chapter here. If you like it, I hope…

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