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Behold the BANE

January 11, 2012
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Ow.

So that thing. That thing there. Is ruining my life.

I’m only half-joking. As for what’s wrong with it and why it’s wreaking revenge upon me, I honestly do not know. Neither do my doctors – yet. All I know is I’m in pain the entire month, and bleeding so much I’m anemic.

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Writing Links Roundup

September 9, 2011
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Grandma, dancing at her 95th birthday party.

Grandma, dancing at her 95th birthday party.

Not a lot of time to post today! I’m working on my trunk novel, tweaking websites for various awesome authors, and preparing for the Big Family Meeting at the end of September. Grandma’s memorial service is going to be a rough time, emotionally. We’re going to Lake Carmel, which her husband built (my grandfather was one of “the Smadbeck Brothers”), and where her heart really was.

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Oh, Bloody Hell

August 26, 2010
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Yeah. That picture there? Of the computer blowing up? Yeah.

Maybe I should stick to clay tablets.

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Wild Times

April 27, 2010
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Today brought a slight existential crisis, an hour or two of freaking out, and – at the end – a frightening realization: there may be circumstances in which I will not accept an agent’s offer of representation.

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