Release Day vs. Technical Difficulties vs. Life

So yesterday, my Kicking Cancer’s Ass memoir released! On all available sites. Okay, on Amazon. Kindle version and Paperback. It’s also available on Kobo. Have you added it to your TBR list on Goodreads yet? Plan A was to also have it available on iBooks, B & N, and Smashwords, but… life got in the…

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Adventures with Formatting

Book Pregnant is the very clever term coined by a group of bloggers, to indicate that stage where an author is almost ready to launch their work into the world. Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n Roll, and a Tiara is pressing on my bladder, kicking me in the kidney… Really, I SO feel ready to pop this baby out. Except,…

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Still Beautiful, Still Sexy, After Breast Cancer

Ready to discuss cancer? And look at naked boobs? Can we make that a hell yes? Estimates are that as many as 40% of Americans will be diagnosed with and survive cancer. Sadly, not everyone will beat cancer, breast, or otherwise. I lost a dear friend, Sherwin Davis, to pancreatic cancer just last month. #fuckingcancer But for…

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Writing Interruptus – and Wenches!

So I’ve been part of an online group of writers, mostly women, with a couple of (male) barkeeps thrown in, because somebody needs to bring us the booze. The Wenches are scattered across the US, Canada (I think), Sweden, the UK, and Australia, so, sadly, our wine parties are mostly virtual. Our genres are also…

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Unpacking the Seven Lessons of CatalystCon

Arriving at the area set aside in the hotel for us, it was highly amusing to find that our convention, including hundreds of sex workers, sex toy salespeople, and sex educators, had been placed next to a yo-yo competition, mostly young men in their teens and twenties.

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