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Archive for December, 2008



What Julie Leto had to say on Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Friday Winner and Christmas Funnies!

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Congratulations to Cindi, #63 for Friday’s Bath & Body Works contest and Gillian, #17 for Saturday’s writer’s winner of the Believable Characters book!!! Please write to Julie: julie at julieleto dot com (put it all together, you know what to …

What Janelle had to say on Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Writing Themed Giveaway (Building Believable Characters)

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Since we don’t have a writing related blog today, I’m giving away a writing related book on Building Believable Characters by Marc McCutcheon. This is from my personal library and is chocked full of some great information and topics on …

What Julie Leto had to say on Friday, December 19th, 2008
Julie’s Friday Jungle Madness Contest

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It’s that time of year…the time to pamper yourself! The winner (US residents only) receive the following from Bath & Body Works!

Aromatherapy
Making Spirits Bright
Our Aromatherapy gift set offers the best of our essential oil benefits. In Sleep, …

What Carly had to say on Thursday, December 18th, 2008
SECRET FANTASY

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On sale January 1, 2009
(or the Tues. before Dec. 30, 2008)

What’s a runaway bride’s secret fantasy?

Juliette Stanton is ten minutes away from vowing to love, honor and cherish a scheming mobster-connected liar. For the rest of her …

What Julie Leto had to say on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Rant of the Pirated Writer

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WARNING: SOAPBOX ALERT!

Yesterday, my friend C.L. Wilson wrote a fabulous blog at Writers At Play regarding book sales in this difficult economy. Please go read it. Really. I’ll wait until you come back.

:boxer

One of the topics she …

What Leslie had to say on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Snow!

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Yesterday someone mentioned a funny email that circulated some years back, about a couple who moved to somewhere snowy and how their opinion of the white stuff changes over one December. I remember it well and remembered loving it. So …

What Janelle had to say on Monday, December 15th, 2008
All I Want For Christmas (Holidays)

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Normally, my husband and I don’t exchange Christmas gifts. We figure that we usually get whatever we want/need throughout the year, and there is already so much stress involved with Holiday shopping (not to mention all the money we spend …

What Leslie had to say on Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Sunday Winner

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The winner of Leslie’s Snowman Jungle Madness Friday is…

Comment # 84: JACK MISHLER!

Congratulations, Jack! Please write to me at author@lesliekelly.com so I can order your prize for you.

And now, in honor of what we’re doing right now …

What Julie Leto had to say on Saturday, December 13th, 2008
The Writing Process, A Primer

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A few months ago, I did a workshop for my TARA chapter about the process of writing. The workshop covered all of the various processes I’d used, both successfully and not so successfully, since my first book. I’m planning on …

What Leslie had to say on Friday, December 12th, 2008
Leslie’s Friday Jungle Madness

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I have a lot of new decorations this year, stuff I picked up on clearance last year after Christmas, a few odds and ends from this year, and I realized I’ve got some kind of Snowman obsession. I honestly hadn’t …