C. Lee McKenzie

Young Adult and Middle Grade Author

#WEP August Garden Delights

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When you say the word garden, you immediately have an image of lush ferns, stately trees and bountiful harvests of fruit, vegetables and flowers. When I first stood looking at the land in front of our house, the only things I saw were the remains of a burned down house and an industrial sized crop of weeds growing through the old debris.

Well I love a challenge or I would write books now, would I? I knew I couldn’t let this three-quarters of an acre defeat me. So I started in one corner and kept moving until I got to the next one. It took a few months, and ever since I first started shoveling and digging, I’ve seen my garden through many seasons. Some lush. Some dry. Some fallow. But always a reward when I walk through it or have a quiet moment to sit in it.

In the picture below you can see a cement foundation post. 

Here’s  the same foundation post, but it now has a birdhouse perched on top, and something green instead of brown around it. 
This is the back corner with the foundation wall. Before.
I like after so much better. That’s a giant dragonfly perched on top of a stubborn rebar thing that I couldn’t get rid of. Nobody sees the rebar now; they just see the dragonfly. 

And across from this I put the first pond. Digging for that pond took me three days. Do not mention rocks to me. Ever. But it was worthwhile. Lots of critters visit my little pond all year.

After I cleared this part, I found my Griffin to stand watch over the garden.

He’s such a good Griffin.

Some of you have seen my editing spot before, but I’ll post it again because it’s by my bigger pond and one of my favorite spots in the garden. It faces the canyon and on cool days you can hear the creek below. 

The fish are always there to greet me. “Whatcha editing today?”

I’ve written tons of things in this garden space. In fact, I have a whole collection called Garden Lessons. I always meant to publish those, but maybe these lessons are only for me. But here’s one thought in haiku form that I enjoy.

A day of spring:
                        a hamlet where not anyone
                           is doing anything. 
Shiki 
So there it is. My #WEP contribution to gardens. I’m looking forward to seeing other contributions about gardens on your blogs. 

IWSG-I Was Searching for Gary-And Then He Found Me Hopping

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Thanks Alex.

The awesome co-hosts for the July 6 posting of the IWSG will be Yolanda Renee, Tyrean Martinson, Madeline Mora-Summonte , LK Hill, Rachna Chhabria, and JA Scott! 

Never turn your back on the first Wednesday of the month. 

Seriously. 

That’s when it pounces and has you for dinner. Maybe lunch. I was writing-do not snigger-and then July 6 popped up on my calendar with “ALERT. HOP TO IT.” 

Hop? Really? 

Gary will go bonkers and Penny might even withhold her affection if I start hopping again. However, I’m basically intrepid and pressing on. 



Quietly. 

So. I’m tiptoeing into this TMI Blog Hop with some IWSG twists and turns. Here’s my post. I hope you’ll take the dare in spite of Gary or because of him. He is really a good guy who would never pounce, unlike the first Wednesday of each month seems to.

Thank you,  Debbie and Guilie  for the #AtoZ TMI Blog hop. So this is the “This is me, from A to Z. 

Sorry. I’m a fairly boring subject, so feel free to skim and scan. But before you start my #AtoZ, here’s the answer to this month’s IWSG question. 

The best thing anyone ever said about my writing was in a blurb Francisco Stork wrote about The Princess of Las Pulgas: “. . .a beautifully written, meaningful, young adult novel. Carlie Edmund will jump off the page and pull you into a poignant and timely story of loss and ultimate gain. She’ll take you into a world where stereotypes are shattered and truth is discovered deep beneath the surface.”




And now . . .
A: Age
Rocks are younger than I am, but heavier. So I’m good.
B: Biggest fear
Gary will read this post and he’ll tell Penny.
C: Current Time
Summer. What could be better, except perhaps winter or spring or fall?
D: Drink you last had
It was either Chardonnay or Pinot. The only other things I drink are coffee or water, so those are possible last things, too.
E: Every day starts with

A walk. Simple, right? I live in a place that beckons. Have to take walks.

F: Favorite Song
My last favorite song was Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Raitt. I still replay that one in my head.
G: Ghosts, are they real?
This question is too close to my bones to answer. I have to write about this one day because she’s back and making my life edgy.
H: Hometown
I don’t have one. Not kidding. I was born on the move.
I: In love with
Penny. Who else? She’s my heroine. And she might put a good word in for me with Gary if I say this.
J: Jealous of?
Nothing and nobody. I gave that up after high school. Waste of time.
K: Killed someone?
Not yet. But I have had targets in mind.
L: Last time you cried?
When my two close friends died within a month of each other. I’m still crying, but you can’t see it.

M: Middle name
Lee
N: Number of siblings
One.
O: One wish
To not regret my choices.
P: Person you last called?
My husband. “Dinner’s ready. Where are you?”
Q: Question you’re always asked
And you are…?
R: Reason to smile
I’m breathing.
S: Sounds that annoy you
Very high pitched voices send me over the wall. Or they would if there was a wall available.
T: Time you woke up
4:30. I’m writing. (Please stop the sniggering.)
U: Underwear color
Let me check. . . Oh yes, white. I’m back to basics, so my undies are either black or white.
V: Vacation destination
I travel a lot, so my deck is often my best vacation.
W: Worst habit
Giving impatient looks. I must learn not to do that.
X: X-Rays you’ve had
Those airport X-Rays! What a horror. Some totally weird, strange person with a badge is looking at my innards. Creepy.
Y: Your favorite food
If it doesn’t involve goat, it’s my favorite. There’s a story behind this. The answer involves a bazaar in Istanbul.
Z: Zodiac sign
Aquarius, if you go with the western zodiac. One of those obnoxious Tigers if you go with the Chinese zodiac.
Did you have fun? (not you Gary) 
The blog-fest is on through July 13th. 
Just add your name and post your answers.
Happy First and Insecure Wednesday Everyone. 

I may be late in getting around to those I usually visit because we have a new baby in our family as of June, and I’m off to meet the little guy tomorrow. Hope he likes me.

Be Strong. Be a Penguin. AND AtoZ Challenge Theme Reveal, 2016

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#InkRipples is a themed meme hosted by Mary Waibel, Katie L. Carroll, and Kai Strand. They post on the first Monday of every month. If you would like to participate compose your own post regarding the theme of the month, include any of the images displayed on their page, and link back to our their blogs. Feel free to post whenever you want during the month, but be sure to include #inkripples when you promote so readers can find you. The idea is that we toss a word or idea into the inkwell and each post is a new ripple. There is no wrong interpretation.

Here are the other topics coming up.

April - Poetry
May - Memories
June - Movies
July - Inspiration
August - Guilty Pleasures
September - Banned Books
October - Masks
November - Heritage
December - Cookies



Be Strong. Be a Penguin

It was an activist era, those 1960s. People rose up against the war in Vietnam. People rebelled against the corporate coat and tie culture with musicals like Hair. And women burned their bras to signal they were tired of being denied top-level jobs with equal pay just because they were women. 

Good job people of the 1960s, but did you finish that job? No, but it’s not your fault. It’s because cultures are like icebergs—we only see a small portion of what’s happening, the rest is out of sight and mostly out of awareness. Any real change is often glacial. 
About fifty years have passed since the bra-burning protests, and today there are still studies that conclude: “On average, depending on the type of institution in which women are employed, it takes women from one year to three and a half years longer than men to attain the rank of professor. According to the survey, women at the rank of associate professor appear to be standing still in relation to men.” (Standing Still: The Associate Professor Survey, 2009) This happens to be about the world of academia—the world I’m most familiar with, but if I were doing an in-depth article, I’m sure I’d find similar ones in other professions and occupations. 
Because I’m so fond of metaphor, bear with me while I extend this one about icebergs. I stumbled on a New York Times  article that prompted me to write on this aspect of feminism for #InkRipples. In it the author said there was , “. . . a recent report about several hundred thousand penguins trapped by a collapsed glacier in Antarctica. Thousands had died, but the ones that survived did so only through perseverance — regularly traveling some 40 miles across barren nothingness to reach the ocean.”
The author struck a perfect way to cheer on the women of today who continue to seek the equality of pay and position in their field of work. We should all strive to be those penguins who won’t let the icy waters of cultural tradition stop them. 


Quote of the Week:
“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.” Nora Ephron, Commencement Ceremony Wellesley Class of 1996

AtoZ Challenge Theme Reveal, 2016

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 I’m not just going to TELL you. I’m going to SHOW you my theme. You guess.

And my AtoZ Blog Challenge Theme 2016 is? 

Hats Off Corner Welcomes Roland Yeoman

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I have a bit of old business from last week before I turn everything over to Roland today. First, those amazing writers Jess and Steph, of Fairday Morrow fame, won a copy of Sudden Secrets for this meme. Just didn’t want to leave them out of the winners’ circle.

The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow




Hats Off Corner

And now start the drum roll. Hereeeeer comes Roland! Hope you’ll start a dialog with this author and find out what his new adventure is all about.

“Hope is a waking dream.” 
- Aristotle
Fairy Girl on Dragonfly
See how she reaches for the light!
Roland Yeomans here:
Lee has let me slip into her “Hats Off Corner” on her blog in my 
“Don’t You Hate Book Tours?” Book Tour.


Lee asked what gave me the idea for my latest novel:

To talk of my dream and how it is working out.

How it is working out?  
I haven’t sold a single copy.  
Why continue writing then?

Let me go the side route on this:
There is an older woman who has moved somewhere in my square of blocks.  Her back is permanently bent so she must walk always looking at her feet.
On my way to work, I see her walking to the grocery store pushing her brightly painted red shopping cart (She cannot drive with her head pushed down.)
She is always jauntily clothed in gaily colored garments done in impish style.  Her eyes may be forced to look at the dirt, but her mind is looking up into the clouds.

That is why I still write.  

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
 – Leonardo da Vinci

Our circumstances may force our eyes down, but our hearts can ride on the wings of dream, wonder, and hope always upward, always reaching out to touch the impossible.

Who knows?  One magic moment we may just make it.

Each of us are on that journey to the dream of becoming a self-supporting writer. We are at different stages of that adventure.  We wave at one another to rally each other.

Just that recognition lets us know we are not alone.

When I wrote Death in the House of Life, (my 1895 Egyptian Steampunk Adventure), I had Mark Twain speak of the voyage he made famous in his The Innocents Abroad. I thought: why not tell that tale?

The Not-So-Innocents Abroad is a 1867 Steampunk journey: the maiden voyage of the Xanadu, the first Air-Steamship where …

A man with the blood of death in his veins is embarking on a perilous journey of learning how to be married to an alien empress…

11 year old orphan, Nikola Tesla, finds himself mentored by Mark Twain who is as much a child as the boy …

An insane Abraham Lincoln and a crippled General Sherman ally themselves with monsters to enact revenge upon Samuel McCord only to find it is a journey leading to dark places …

The twin sister of the empress finds herself falling in love with the husband of her hated sister – the man who sees the hurt little girl bruised by living in the cold shadow of her regal twin.

A global war of vampire kingdoms is being waged unknown to the living …

The vampiric Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Empress Theodora circle one another, looking for weakness in their opponents, blind to their own.

A Being older than the creation of light is moving his pieces on the board of the world as he has for millennia …

Yet, like The Lord of the Rings (especially The Fellowship of the Ring), my novel is one of friendships won, lost, and regained, of how the darkness around us is not as important as the light we carry within us, and of how that light is born of two hearts hesitantly reaching out to one another and finding its soul-mate.
The journey we start is never the one we finish.

Give my novel a chance.  Go to its Amazon Page and try the LOOK INSIDE feature:

I write to music.  Do you? Here is the selection that I am writing a scene in the sequel, The Not-So-Innocents at Large where the Sidhe fly their sky-boats to challenge the Empress Meilori Shinseen, flying over England.

Much to their regret, the Sidhe learn Meilori is, indeed, a star-child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hguvzsLUD5E 

And there you have it folks! Want to give Roland a boost and venture over to good old Amazon? Take a look at what’s he’s created. And since Roland’s already provided us with two great quotes, I’ll let those be my quotes of the week. 

Winners! Ageism in PBs, Volume 3

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Remember this little Meme Hop? Well, it turned out to be a lot of fun and easy to do. It wasn’t easy to pick winners, however. Tara, Christine and I had a devil of a time. But here they are. All very funny. And I only am showing one of each entrant. Some had several. Way to go writers.

Thanks for playing everyone! Here were the book prizes. 

PepperWords won one of the $25. GC from Amazon. 
J.Lenni Dorner won an eBook of Double Negative. 
Junetta won a copy of Sudden Secrets





Check out the other winners on Tara and Christine’s sites. They each offered copies of their books, and there was one more $25 GC. Were you one of the lucky meme-makers?
L.L. is one of my Newsletter followers and she just won a signed copy of A. Formento’s Twigs. Congrats L.L. The book is on the way.
My March Newsletter goes out next week. Hope you’ve signed up. I’m sending everyone a Marketing Checklist with examples of how I’m using it to improve my marketing. More about my marketing next month. There’s also some news. Yes. I actually have NEWS. 


In case you’re interested: My previous posts on AGEISM. Post 1 Post 2

David Wiesner is one of my favorite picture book writers, and I have three of his books. I decided to take a look and see 1) if he had any elderly characters and 2) if he treated them fairly or as stereotypes. Here’s what I found. In one book there were zero elderly, even the animals were young. In another there was one picture of adults, however, I couldn’t count them as elderly. They were reading while their son explored the beach. In the third book there were four characters that were pictured as elderly: round glasses, gray hair and facial lines. All were stern and, while not unkind,  they were stiff and all business. It didn’t look as if being older was much fun.

A writer friend, Cynthia Jaynes Omolou published this PB, so I took a look at it again to see what she’d done with elderly characters. Hurray for Omolou. She not only had three elderly characters ( two men and a woman), but they were of varied ethnicity.

Quote of the Week:  “Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.” Theodore Roosevelt

Hot August Nights Special Offer Winners, WEP Spectacular Settings, Hats Off Corner Welcomes Medeia Shariff

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I sent my subscriber-peeps my Hot August Nights Special Offer and I have two winners, chosen at random. Christine Rains and Mike Boyd will each receive $10 to add books to their libraries or their Kindles, Nooks or bookshelves. Congrats. And thanks for adding your name to my Special Offers Mailing List. Stay tuned for next month’s offer. 
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DENISE COVEY and YOLANDA RENEE

Anyone interested in joining Denise Covey’s and Yolanda Renee’s WEP Hop? HERE’S where you sign up. Not too late. I’ve already posted my contribution, and you might like to see what others have written.
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Hats Off Corner welcomes Medeia Shariff
HOT PINK IN THE CITY, Prizm Books/Torquere Press, 
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Ebook
Purchase from Prizm, Amazon (vendor links will be updated on the author’s site)

Asma Bashir wants two things: a summer fling and her favorite ’80s songs. During a trip to New York City to stay with relatives, she messes up in her pursuit of both. She loses track of the hunk she met on her airplane ride, and she does the most terrible thing she could possibly do to her strict uncle… ruin his most prized possession, a rare cassette tape.


A wild goose chase around Manhattan and Brooklyn to find a replacement tape yields many adventures — blackmail, theft, a chance to be a TV star, and so much more. Amid all this turmoil, Asma just might be able to find her crush in the busiest, most exciting city in the world.

Find Medeia – YA and MG Author

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Quote of the Week: “Life is like a lot of jazz-it’s best when you improvise.” George Gershwin

And that’s a wrap! Are you in the hop? Do you hop? (Just kidding.) Want to find out about that rare cassette Asma ruins? Improvise much? 

WEP Spectacular Settings

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Densie Covey, Yolanda Renee
I  wasn’t going to do this, but I’m always going on and on about how much I love description, so I caved. For me setting is very important when I read and when I write. If it’s not done well, it might as well not be in the book.

The idea of this HOP is to post description you found spectacular, and then post something of your own. (optional BTW)

This comes from Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Her setting descriptions are amazing. Here’s the one I’ve chosen for today.
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The store has been here only for a year. But already many look at it and think it was always.
I can understand why. Turn the crooked corner of Esperanza where the Oakland busses hiss to a stop and you’ll see it. Perfect-fitted between the narrow barred door to Rosa’s Weekly Hotel, still blackened from a year-ago fire, and Lee Ying’s Sewing Machine and Vacuum Cleaner Repair, with the glass cracked between the R and the e. Grease-smudge window. Looped letters that say SPICE BAZAAR faded into a dried-mud brown. Inside, walls veined with cobwebs where hang discolored pictures of the gods, their sad shadow eyes. Metal bins with the shine long gone from them, heaped with atta and Basmati rice and masoor dal. Row upon row of videomovies, all the way back to the time of black-and white. Bolts of fabric dyed in age-old colors, New Year yellow, harvest green, bride’s luck red.
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I loved this setting of Divakaruni’s because it did so much more than paint the picture of the shop located on a city street with the bustle of ethnic diversity. It captured a sense of the character’s dialect, the smell of her shop and the taste of the spices—all central to the story. To me, that’s great writing.

Now for my humble Spectacular Setting. You’re the first to read it-besides my wonderful critique group. This is from my latest WIP. Think about desert while you read it. Oh, and a motel just outside of a town called Rattlesnake. Sound like fun? Here’s what my characters see, driving along a hot, sandy road.

It sat between two gas pumps and a gift shop. Twelve motel doors, six up and six down, were painted with Japanese cherry blossoms, a failed attempt to disguise three tacked together, stucco buildings. Someone must have seen that the blossoms weren’t going to do the trick so they painted the walls and the roof pink. And it wasn’t a sandy desert pink; it was hot pink. It was like finding a huge pink whale in the middle of a desert.
(FCA)

Anyone interested in joining this Hop? HERE’S where you sign up.

I’ll be posting on my usual Monday, so hope to see you there.

It’s Green in Ireland and August Happenings

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My Friend on Inish Mor

 

I’ve had enough about Leap Castle and it’s dreadful history, and I’m sure my readers have as well. Ireland may be filled with ghostly places, but it’s also filled with lots of beauty and laughter. The Emerald Isle has my heart, and I think my ancestors must have either been desperate or nuts to leave it.  Here are a few places I love.

Howth (rhymes with both)-a hike you can’t miss.

Enniskerry-a village I want in a story.

Roscrea-one of my favorite inland places. Home of Leap Castle.

Hungry Author at The Thatch-300-year-old pub

Powerscourt-Very posh. Very beautiful.
Inish Mor-an island hike and my second time around it!
The Apre-Hike Guinness

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A few things happening in August

I’m sending my second SPECIAL OFFERS NEWSLETTER next week. Hope you’re on my list to have a chance at this month’s offer.
WEP August Challenge. The first Challenge is SPECTACULAR SETTINGS. Are you in? If not, here’s the sign-up LINK!
Eileen Schuh has corralled 12 UncommonYA authors who are donating everything from Sci-Fi to Gritty YA.  August 5-September 3 ENTER HERE. I’m offering up a choice of my eBooks. 
UncommonYA is celebrating TWO YEARS! They’re popping the champagne corks and offering up books galore. ENTER today. You can stock up on your winter reading and all for free.
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Quote of the Week: “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” Mario Andretti.
Have I interested you in visiting Ireland? Are you ready for August and all those freebies? Going fast enough?

Summer Hop and Farewell for a While

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I joined Lexa Cain’s Summer Hop because I’m ready for a vacation, and it gave me a great way to say goodbye to everyone for June. I’ll be around to your blogs, but probably as I make my way to Oregon. I’ll wave to M. Pax on my way through her beautiful state and keep an eye out for those Gangsta Cows she’s alerted me to. Then I’m off Ireland for a family wedding and a revisit to a few Leprechauns.

So on with the Hop. 

Lexa Cain

I’ve been to a lot of summer vacation places: Costa Rica, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Mexico, Hawaii (Maui, Kawaii, Lanai, Molokai-still my favorite island), Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Wales, Scotland (where the word isn’t in the dictionary because they don’t have summer) England, Turkey, Yugoslavia-interesting summer there-New York, Kansas (don’t ask), Alaska and someplace else I can’t remember. So what’s my favorite summer vacation spot? Here it is!

Welcome to my SECRET GARDEN.

My favorite summer vacation spot is this tiny dot on the map where all things are possible as long as I want them to be. Where I’m the mistress and the servant, and where peace settles inside me with a friendly purr.

This is where I kick back and think and wonder at my good fortune to have a place on this planet to just be.
This is where I plan my stories and plant my seeds and watch my peaches ripen.
 This is where I read and consider philosophy and magic.
This is where I wait for the new birds who find my umbrella a safe nesting place.
This is where I pull weeds, turn the dirt, pick fresh produce and savor the smells of summer.

This is where the fish live in the ponds, and Albert the Cat used to contemplate their world of water. He’s missed.

And, of course, this is where I come when everything around me crumbles and I need help.

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Hope you’ll visit all the others who are sharing their favorite summer vacation spots, and be sure to visit Lexa and her Co-Hosts: Melanie Karsak  T.F. Walsh 
Vanessa Morgan Jolie Du Pre  Stuart R. West


Bye until July!

Who’s Your Hero? And Hat’s Off Corner to Joy Campbell

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HOPE YOU ALL UNDERSTAND, BUT I’M SOMEWHERE THOUSANDS OF FEET IN THE AIR-THERE’S A PLANE INVOLVED.   IF I CAN LOG ON AND COMMENT, I WILL, BUT IF I’M KICKED BACK WITH A GLASS OF WINE AND A GOOD BOOK, MY COMMENTS WILL HAVE TO BE LATE. 

I could make a list that would go the length of my blog if I listed my heroes-men and women in my life, in history, and in stories I’ve treasured. Instead, I’m going with the generic hero, the unsung, the unwitting, the Everyman (in the most general sense of “man”) who rises from the humble to the heroic in that moment when man must either rise higher than he’s ever risen before, or succumb to the forces against him.

Flood
©C.Lee
The heroic heart lies
concealed within. 
Mysterious, 
Undetected;
then in one moment, 
Revealed.
Aftermath
©C. Lee

One image.
A trove of feelings compacted into light and shadow
No authored words.
Only the heart of the hero, beating.

Ouroboros 
©C. Lee

Day.
Night.
Another.
Year.
Decade.
Another. 
Hunger harvests. 
Hero 
Endures.
So I know what you’re saying: 300 words? Well, I’m going with the idea that if brevity is the soul of wit it’s also the best way to express an idea. Besides, I often find that if I’m brief, I’m also more likely to be read by others online. The problem is it takes me hours more to write short than it does to write long. 
Here are some others who agree with my thoughts on brevity. Am I in good company or what?
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” 
“Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.” 
To the Hero in all of us.

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HAT’S OFF CORNER
Ever heard the saying, ‘one hand washes the other’? Well, in my world ‘one story bleeds into another’. Although there are currently three novels and one novella in the Island Adventure Romance series, the stories all started with Hardware, a romantic suspense novel released through Wild Child Publishing.
You might wonder how that happened. Let’s just say one compelling secondary character, Anya, had such an interesting situation that I had to develop her story. Her sister, Celeste, proved to be a pain-in-the-butt that I did nothing about for a while. Then I wondered what would happen if I tied her to a troublesome secondary character from Contraband, my first published work. Long story short, these problem children lit the pages on fire with their personalities that are akin to the effect you get from striking a match close to gasoline.
The plot thread is still unreeling, because there’s one half of a twin—presumed dead—from Contraband whose adventure is next in line. For those of you who write stories that end up as a series, d’you notice how unresolved situations, snippets of information and back story help to form the basis for follow-up books?
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J.L. Campbell lives in Jamaica and writes romantic suspense, women’s fiction and young adult novels. She also writes non-fiction and is a certified editor. Visit her on the web at http://www.joylcampbell.com or at her Amazon page. She’s enjoys good company, so feel free to follow her on Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest.

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