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The movie Forrest Gump was released almost thirty years ago today. Is it still too soon to use the “box of chocolates” metaphor? For the sake of this post, I hope not. Imagine it’s Valentine's Day, and you’ve received a box of assorted chocolates (someone loves you!) – with coconut cremes, bon bons, almond clusters,
In 2018, I launched Les Stone Cold Killers, the lazily-titled first book of my campy Cold War YA adventure series Perilous and Sparks. At the time, Jack was occupied with renovating our old sailboat, and I was keeping the family afloat financially with my income as a copywriter. Read: we didn’t have much spare cash
In the past year, Carteret Writers has advanced our technology tools - created a new website, produced a weekly blog and built a forum to assist writers with their technology questions. All this is thanks to our unstoppable Secretary Autumn Ware (and husband Jack). I was privileged to spend the afternoon with Autumn for some
How is a plot born? Does it spring from the ghostly image of a pretty girl peering through a rain-pebbled window? Does it rise from the low rumble of a night train straining up the last long slope into a sleeping town? Perhaps it grows from the echoing laughter of a child long lost to
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing my friend and Carteret Writers President Melissa Kelley. Our fearless leader has done a fantastic job of gathering our crazy ideas and implementing the not so crazy ones all while being supermom to two great kids. Let’s start with a fun question, what was your favorite book
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