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I Heart Indies — Give Away!
How much do we love our indie book stores? SO MUCH! In fact, a bunch of blogs are celebrating indies today with cool give aways…books bought at our local indie stores! My amazingly supportive indie is...
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Winner! Winner!
The winner of my I Heart Indies Give Away of Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is…. Superpaige! I numbered the comments and used random.org to find the winner. True Random Number Generator Min:...
View ArticleAnother Winner and More Free Stuff!
The winner of May’s LIFE IS GOOD Campaign is …… going to get a Life is Good brand baseball cap…. two cool Life is Good stickers… a pre order of my upcoming novel, WITH A NAME LIKE LOVE…. fun novel swag...
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June’s Winner Announced
I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed your ‘life is good’ comments on my last contest post. Summer, good health, marriages, kiddos, pets…all things to celebrate. Each day is a gift. It is our choice how...
View ArticleWho Are You Really?
Not to long ago I attended a local authors event and started chatting about names… interestingly enough, a good number of people there were using names different from their given names. It got me...
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Your Intuitive Heart
.I Knew It!!! How many times have you said that to yourself? When your intuition was screaming at you, but you reasoned your way out of it? When you’ve given up on something too soon or not soon...
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Free Stuff!
.I can’t believe I’m announcing the two month count down till the release of WITH A NAME LIKE LOVE. A very long twenty months ago, I got the call it had sold … Sept 2011 seemed eons away (is that how...
View ArticleWiener! Wiener! and some fun news
The winner of our July Countdown Give Away was determined by random.org True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max: 22 Result: 5 MG HIGGINS! MG…email me at tess(at)tesshilmo(dot)com with your mailing...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Problem?
Every main character needs two problems: one external and one internal before you click off this post and say “duh!” ask yourself … what is exactly the internal problem for your main character? Do you...
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My Favorite Writer-ly Thing
. Here she is….my thesaurus. My mom gave her to me when I was fifteen years old. That was twenty*cough*years ago. Isn’t she pretty? Guess what? My word.doc thesaurus gives me 19 options for the word...
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