My name is Bree, and I’m addicted to the internet.


Written on December 7, 2011 by   · All Posts, The Writing Life · Tags:
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So my internet is down. It went out yesterday and the well-meaning but utterly unable to help me folks at AT&T told me they weren’t sure what was wrong but my phone and internet would be back on before Saturday evening at the latest.  I got all suspicious and annoyed because if they don’t... Read more

New Reissues, New Freebies, New Newness!


Written on July 5, 2011 by   · All Posts, Self Publishing, Southern Arcana, The Writing Life · Tags: , ,
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As rights revert to us on earlier works, we’ve been faced with the eternal question: what should we do with these stories? In the past, our answer was invariably to upload them as free reads. This was an ideal solution for everyone involved, and held us through 2009 and 2010. However, it’s... Read more

WTF, Dropbox? NO.


Written on July 2, 2011 by   · All Posts, The Writing Life · Tags: , ,
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Bree and I need to share files with each other.  It’s a simple, blatant fact–we write together, how can we not?  We’ve long searched for a service that would allow us to do so conveniently, and with a minimum of fuss.  We thought we’d found that with Dropbox, especially after... Read more

Plagiarism & other rage-inducing things.


Written on June 29, 2011 by   · All Posts, The Writing Life · Tags:
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Last night, a reader who’d been searching for something at Amazon emailed us. She’d been looking for more Last Call books after having read the first two (kind of– getting to that in a minute). When she found them in the Kindle store, she realized they had a different name attached... Read more

My Inner Zen for 2011


Written on January 9, 2011 by   · All Posts, The Writing Life · Tags: ,
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So here we are, in 2011. Hello, 2011! 2010 was a crossroads sort of year for me’n Donna,  and not just because Crossroads came out in digital in February and print in November.  Honestly, it is weirdly symbolic, though, since we spent most of the time in between in a weird flux where we couldn’t... Read more

Lending vs Downloading vs Pirating: The Fine Lines


Written on December 30, 2010 by   · All Posts, The Writing Life · Tags: , ,
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So kindle has lending now! Except mostly only for small press titles, as most of the big traditional publishers don’t allow for ebook lending.  My personal opinion on that is that it’s absurd, since “kindle lending” (like Nook lending) is so limited as to barely deserve the title. Here’s... Read more

Wheeee! And thank you! And yay!


Written on December 23, 2010 by   · All Posts, Southern Arcana, The Writing Life · Tags: , ,
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I don’t often post about exciting sales ranks, award nominations and the like because I don’t want to sit around going, “So, let’s talk about how cool I might be!”  That ranks somewhere between “Lets smack my thumb with a hammer” and  “Let’s chew... Read more

If I’d Had a Mentor…


Written on November 5, 2010 by   · All Posts, Recurring Features, The Writing Life · Tags: , ,
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…this is what she would have told me. A few weeks ago, Bree and I were talking on the phone about things we really wish someone had told us back when we undertook this venture, this writing for publication thing.  And I joked and said, “The kinds of things your mentor would have told you,... Read more

My secret weapon


Written on August 26, 2010 by   · All Posts, The Writing Life · Tags: ,
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I don’t make much secret of the fact that Donna & I are crazy jugglers.  There are two of us, and that makes it easier to multi-task.  We write a little faster than one person on their own, we can write on multiple projects, and when one of us is doing edits, the other is handling promo. ... Read more

Why I hate the word “gatekeepers”


Written on July 3, 2010 by   · All Posts, The Writing Life · Tags: ,
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There is one word that comes up again and again, whether you’re talking about traditional publishing or self-publishing or epublishing or pretty much anything in between: gatekeepers. Most of the time I see it being used by someone who feels like the gatekeeper is preventing them from doing something... Read more

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