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The Book is Here ... but What if They Don't Like It?

I got my box of contributor copies of Hungering and Thirsting for Justice in the mail yesterday, so I promptly sent an email to all the friends and associates I thought might be interested in knowing about it. Interest was especially piqued amongst those who know me mostly in a

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What Makes One Catholic?

My biweekly post is up on Young Adult Catholics. This time, it’s some of my musing on the question of what it really means to be Catholic. I wasn’t able to answer that question adequately in the exploration, but some of the comments do a pretty good job.

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Blogging and "platform"

In the September issue of Writer’s Digest, there’s an article by Nina Amir encouraging writers to “blog their book” — to post a blog with bite-size book content over time to develop a readership and, eventually, attract the attention of publishers. The article has a “hit two birds with

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My rigorous new writing schedule

I always do my best and most productive writing at times when I have a set routine, which is one of the reason I do so poorly with my writing when I’m going through big transitions. Now that my life has evened out sufficiently after the wedding, move, and

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Ever This Day on Tuscany Press Prize Blog

An excerpt from my middle-grade/young adult novel, Ever This Day, is currently posted on the Tuscany Press Prize Blog. It received an encouraging response from the judge/reader. Stop by, check it out, and maybe even say something nice about it. 🙂 While you’re there, read some of the

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My First Book -- Coming Soon

Over the past year, I’ve made mention several times about an anthology of young adult Catholic voices that I’ve been working on. Last week, my co-editor and I heard back from the publisher, and this morning we confirmed that the project is a go. The book will be

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On miracles

I posted at the Young Adult Catholics blog today about the issue that has been dominating my personal life throughout the month of September; while I was at the book release party I mentioned in my previous post, my grandmother was busy accomplishing miracles. I wrote about it in One

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Why I Write: Because I'm Not Always Brave

Last night, I posted Ask Any Scientist! to Young Adult Catholics. The post argues against using “science” as a justification of homophobia. I knew as I was conceiving of, writing, and publishing the post that I was more likely to get flamed for it than to get support, as the

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Back on the YAC bandwagon

What do science fiction novels, OCD, and Catholicism have in common? My brain, apparently, which is what I explored in today’s post for Young Adult Catholics.

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Poem #15, Writers Group, and a Meeting w/ a Publisher

Cats for a Day Every morning I used to ask my cat, “Why don’t we switch things up a bit? This time, you go to work, and I lay around all day.” She blinked, chirped, walked away. I grumbled about how some people just don’t pull their own

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Is procrastination a sufficient writing goal?

I’m sorry to say that I haven’t touched my novel in about a week, but nor have I often had to write the dreaded word NONE on my writing spreadsheet every day. I’ve been keeping up better with the poem-a-day challenge better than I’ve ever been

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NaNo-ers, My Heart is With You!

Well, it’s here! For writers and would-be writers everywhere, this is the day you’ve been waiting for. November 1st, the official start of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Well do I remember the joys, the sorrows, the euphoria, the stress, the comraderie! of this month of exuberant, frantic

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Where I'm Writing . . . and Where I'm not

Dialog and posts have unfortunately declined on the Young Adults Catholic blog in the past year or so. The blog is completely run by volunteer editors and writers, and it’s no surprise that all of us have pretty busy lives. I’ve been doing pretty well at keeping my

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Writing Women Back In

I’m writing myself back in to the Young Adults Catholic blog and hoping to get back on board with posting regularly again. Today’s post centers on my obsession with women and Catholicism. Interestingly, two of my previous posts are both listed as “top” posts on the blog: one

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Yannabe Super Secret Blog Project

Young adult literature enthusiast and blogger, Yannabe, is hosting a blogging event — post about the “five best YA books you’ve never read.” The purpose is to give some much needed kudos to the wealth of brilliant YA books out there that don’t get a lot of sensationalized hype

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They say to write about your obsessions . . .

Don’t mind me; just writing about women’s ordination again.

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Writing for the Web

Over the weekend, I talked to a friend who was stressed out about some web content she was writing. Since most of the writing I do for a “real audience” these days is web writing, I thought I might pass on some of what I’ve learned to her–and

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Non-stress Blogging

Today was my day to post at the Young Adult Catholics blog again. It’s been almost exactly a year since I began blogging there. I applied as a writer because I’d recently made the commitment to myself for the millionth time that I would seek more opportunities to

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On Catholic Conscience

Today was my blogging day over at the Young Adults Catholic blog, where I tackled one of my favorite topics: Conscience and Catholicism. In other Catholic-related news, it looks like my essay about being bisexual and Catholic will be appearing in the “Lesbian” Catholic anthology. If it finds a publisher,

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What's Happening in my Writing World

Here’s what’s been happening in my Writing World in the past five days: 1. I fell off the NaPoWriMo poem-a-day wagon and am running behind it trying to get back on. 2. Despite this, I’m regretting not taking the plunge and trying Script Frenzy. Perhaps next year.

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Creativity and the Collective Consciousness

Josh McDonald, creator of the Ask Rachel comic, recently noted that, on the same day that I wrote about Christianity and sex at the Young Adult Catholics blog, he was also exploring the topic in Ask Rachel. We’ve all had experiences like this; we’re writing a brilliant novel

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On Publishing, the Internet, and Self Googling

I recently self-Googled in an attempt to see if any of my Demand Studios articles had been published. I didn’t find any of them yet, but self-Googling proved to be an enlightening experience, as always. Because I have a unique name, and because I’ve had a fairly public

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Blogging elsewhere today

Today was my day to blog over at Young Adult Catholics, where I  refused to answer the age-old question of “how” someone can be both Christian and not straight (perhaps a better question would be WHY do people feel so convinced that God will hate on you for loving another

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Quantity vs. Quality, in writing and in faith

Today was my day to blog over at Young Adult Catholics, where I ponder whether the principle of quantity vs. quality applied in NaNoWriMo can be applied to faith. Don’t worry, folks. I’m only about 7,000 words (and 5 days) from the end, and my mind will