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She’s a Winner!

Congrats to my lovely friend Susan Scofield, who won the Dixie Dunbar Studio drawing on Small Business Saturday. She now is the proud owner of a fabulous pair of earrings AND her very own advance reading copy of ENCHANTED! Want a pair of Dixie Dunbar original earrings for yourself? Click over to the online store, or give Soteria a…

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Hey, Baby, What’s Your Sign?

Author C. C. Finlay posted a link to this article on Facebook — “A Message to Women from a Man: You are Not Crazy.” The author tells women not to fall victim to emotional abuse (he calls it “Gaslighting). Charlie added the comment that the article should have been addressed to other men, with an emphasis on how to…

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Princess Alethea’s Magical Elixir

Also on my to-do list: New Princess Alethea reviews are up over at IGMS! (It *says* October, but they really mean November.)   Title: The False Princess Author: Eilis O’Neal EAN: 9781606840795 As a Princess, I am always drawn to books with the word “Princess” in the title. I’m usually disappointed when I read the jacket copy. I was…

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Adam Ezra’s ENCHANTED Easter Egg

If you’re one of those folks who likes to know little background DVD-extras for novels, this one’s for you. At the end of the acknowledgments for ENCHANTED, I thank the Adam Ezra Group because I wrote most of the acknowledgements while waiting for their show to start at the 8×10 club in Baltimore, MD. I told the guys that…

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Maryland Renaissance Festival

Things got busy and the to-do list got longer, and this item sat up at the top, happily ignored until the Fairy Godboyfriend said, “Hey, did you ever upload those pics from the Maryland Renaissance Festival?” So now I have. And I’m glad I did, because there are some really great pics here. Hooray for iPhones! We went on…

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Spec the Halls!

It’s never to early for Christmas, right? (Unless it attempts to encroach on Halloween, in which case, Christmas can go STICK IT.) But now that it’s almost December, it’s time to start thinking and planning those upcoming holiday festivities…and holiday gifts. Assuming you have money left over after purchasing a pair of earrings from Dixie Dunbar Studio, I have…

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Enchanted Conversations

I had the good fortune of stumbling across a tweet a few months ago, advertising that Enchanted Conversations was accepting submissions for a “Little Red Riding Hood” themed anthology of fiction stories. It was a wonderful discovery, because not only did I have a new place to submit to, but they also have a bunch of great stuff in…

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Knight Saves Princess

I meant to post about this back during Capclave, and I kept forgetting. I meant to post it again when Scott Edelman passed the video along to me…and I forgot then too. Then a few days ago, someone linked to the article about how Terry Pratchett was signing a contract with Dignitas to lead his own assisted suicide. And…

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On the Importance of Turkeys

Thanksgiving weekend’s not over yet! And before it is, I have a quick message I would like to say to my beloved little sister, in front of the whole world. My next video should be about the story behind this, or why we called Soteria “Sami” all those years…but for now, I’m just sort of hoping this prompts a…

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