Tag: novels
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2,000 Words a Day and Dirty Laundry
By Patricia Zick @PCZick One of my fellow bloggers, Doug Oldfield posted on his Writing Fiction Blog reminded me that November starts the National Novel Writing Month or as it’s more affectionately known NaNoWriMo. The goal is for authors to write 50,000 words on a novel during the month of November. A novel averages 80,000-100,000…
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Tortoise Stew on Kindle
By Patricia Zick @PCZick As promised, I’ve now released Tortoise Stew on Kindle (by P.C. Zick). It’s a real deal at .99 cents. It was originally published in paperback in 2006 under my former name (Patricia Camburn Behnke). The new e-book version has been updated and edited. Here’s a review of the book from 2006.…
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5* for Live from the Road
I just received 5-star review from Alle Wells for Live from the Road. Ms. Well’s 5-star review blog supports Indie Authors such as myself. She states, in her blog that she will “only post books that I enjoy reading and that meet the standard requirements of a good read.” Her standard requirements include “strong characterization,…
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Writing my life
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works” -Virginia Woolf This quote struck me this morning, and hits on something I’ve believed for a long time. As a writer, I’m often asked if a novel is autobiographical. It’s an annoying question…
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Free Book May 23 and May 24
Live from the Road is now published and on May 23 and May 24, the trip is free. All you have to do is go to my amazon.com page, and click to order the novel for your Kindle, i-pad, i-phone or PC. Get the book now for a great Memorial Day read about how the…
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Write that Novel
“If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.” — Dashiell Hammett June 1924 Love this quote. Rachel Carson once said the writer…
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