writing and publishing

Drafting off NaNoWriMo

By lindacollison|2015-11-01T15:17:34-07:00November 1st, 2015|Looking for Redfeather, writing and publishing|

Hats off to Chris Baty, founder of the wildly successful [...]

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Halloween book giveaway

By lindacollison|2015-10-30T09:58:21-07:00October 30th, 2015|books, Looking for Redfeather, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing|

Painting by John William Waterhouse, 1886, via Wikimedia Commons. [...]

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Shining Light on our Ladies

By lindacollison|2015-10-27T22:49:52-07:00October 26th, 2015|Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, women sailors, writing and publishing|

I'm delighted for Patricia MacPherson, my 18th-century cross-dressing protagonist, to [...]

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Strong Female Protags Wearin’ the Pink

By lindacollison|2015-10-11T21:52:58-07:00October 11th, 2015|How We Write; a series of essays by guest authors, writing and publishing|

The days of the stereotypical helpless heroine of the romantic [...]

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Writing Prompts: A single sentence can keep you afloat

By lindacollison|2015-10-04T13:58:19-07:00October 4th, 2015|writing and publishing|

Message in a bottle: Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! I'm a writer, [...]

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Water Ghosts

By lindacollison|2016-01-26T16:05:44-07:00September 12th, 2015|adventure, audiobooks, nautical history, ships and boats, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing, YA|

Chinese ghosts... I have an abiding fascination in the long [...]

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The death of Creativity?

By lindacollison|2015-09-07T08:59:30-07:00September 7th, 2015|writing and publishing|

My Labor Day reflections on creative writing: Creativity is not [...]

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Bad choices make good fiction

By lindacollison|2015-08-02T22:35:24-07:00August 2nd, 2015|coming-of-age fiction, what inspires me, writing and publishing|

Bad choices -- we've all made them and they can [...]

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Teenaged eunuchs

By lindacollison|2015-08-01T18:10:24-07:00August 1st, 2015|history, Water Ghosts, writing and publishing, YA|

Water Ghosts took a long time to write, mostly because [...]

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Go Set a Watchman

By lindacollison|2015-07-25T13:48:13-07:00July 18th, 2015|books, coming-of-age fiction, history, writing and publishing|

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird influenced me greatly as [...]

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