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Critique Groups: Choosing the Right Partner

Posted: 21st October 2012 by jazzdog in Critique Group, Writing
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  Choosing the Right Critique Group So far we’ve talked about the importance of knowing what we want from a critique group and clarity about what a group wants from us.  So how do you know what group is right or wrong for you? How do I know if I’m in the right critique group […]

Critique Groups: What Do You Want From Me?

Posted: 14th October 2012 by jazzdog in Critique Group, Writing
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What does a Critique Group want from me?  In my last post I discussed clarity about what you want in a critique group. Today let’s look at the other side of the story — what does a critique group want from you. Honesty — yes, it’s subjective, but honest feedback stripped of any agendas (see […]

Critique Groups: You Get What You Ask For

Posted: 7th October 2012 by jazzdog in Critique Group, Writing
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What do I want from a Critique Group? One of the most helpful or hurtful things for a writer is a critique group.  Helpful when the group enables you to learn, to grow, to stretch.  Hurtful when the group either pulls you down into the muck or stalls you out.   I’ve had a taste […]

Author Chat: Debra Easterling

Posted: 1st October 2012 by Richard Hacker in Author Interview, Creativity, Interview, Novel, Writing
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I Want to Thank Debra Easterling for joining us today.  Debra has a thriller coming out in October from Champagne Books called TWENTY MILES NORTH OF LVOV. And she’s currently working on a chic lit mystery, which I’m hoping we’ll find out about in our interview. Debra, before we get to TWENTY MILES NORTH OF […]

Blog Tour Week One

Posted: 17th September 2012 by jazzdog in Author Interview, Blog Tour, Book Review, Giveaway, promotional giveaway, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, Writing
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For the next four weeks, I’ll be on a blog tour sharing Toxic Relationship with readers.  There will be interviews, excerpts from Toxic Relationship, book reviews and at a number of stops along the way, we’ll have a promotional giveaway for readers of the blogs — a $10 gift certificate for Amazon.  Yeah, cool.  So […]

Author Chat: January Bain

Posted: 9th September 2012 by jazzdog in Author Interview, Creativity, Novel, Publishing, Writing
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January, thanks so much for being with me today. You’ve had quit an exciting few weeks with the release of your first novel, FOREVER MAN. At the end of the interview readers will get a chance to win a free copy, but more on that later. We all want to know more about the novel, […]

Lights, Camera, Action: Creating a Book Trailer for TOXIC RELATIONSHIP

Posted: 27th August 2012 by jazzdog in Marketing, Publishing, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP
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Seems like everyone puts out a book trailer for their novels these days, so I decided I’d add a trailer to my promotion plan.  First step — gather all of my Hollywood insiders to put together an incredible team of producers, directors, videographers, all the way to a caterer using only locally sourced, organically grown […]

Writing in the Raw

Posted: 20th August 2012 by jazzdog in Creativity, TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, Writing
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With the publication of TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, a phenomenon has occurred which I suppose I should have expected and yet, I feel surprised.  I have written in one form or another for years.  Those first short stories I read during “show and tell” in Mrs. Meredeth’s third grade class, my bitingly witty (to a 13 year […]

Author Chat: Cathy Coburn and Duaine Neill

Posted: 13th August 2012 by Richard Hacker in Creativity, Interview, Novel, Writing
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I want to thank Cathy Coburn and Duaine Neill for joining me today.  These writing partners have an adventurous streak — zip lining, scuba diving and oh yes, doing jumps in four wheelers off sand dunes!  When they aren’t risking life and limb, they’re writing.  Their novel AFTER THE MIST released by Champagne Books is […]

A Starting Point

Posted: 28th July 2012 by Richard Hacker in Aviation, History, Writing
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A few days ago I did one of my favorite things about being a writer — research. In the middle of the week and the middle of the day, I hopped on my scooter, riding through downtown Seattle to the Museum of Flight. My goal: tour the interior of a B-17. This aircraft had a […]

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