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• Summer Writing on Florida Novels

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I’m still here even though I’m not posting as much. Summertime and the living is anything but easy around my house. The garden is starting to produce, the boat is in the slip, and the kayaks beckon every time I walk by them. Saturday we spent a portion of the day…

  P. C. Zick

  June 24, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick

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• Book Tour and Giveaway Continues

  I’m on a Virtual Book Tour this week with Trails in the Sand  – Visit tour stops to enter giveaway I’m on “tour” April 22-29 to celebrate the forty-third anniversary of Earth Day and to celebrate the publication of Trails in the Sand. At each stop, you’ll be able to enter a raffle for an…

  P. C. Zick

  April 28, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer, Route 66, Trails in the Sand

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• Enter Giveaway On My Virtual Book Tour

  April 22-29 – Trails in the Sand goes on a Worldwind Virtual Book Tour I’ll be out on “tour” April 22-29 to celebrate the forty-third anniversary of Earth Day and to celebrate the publication of Trails in the Sand. At each stop, you’ll be able to enter a raffle for an exciting giveaway at the…

  P. C. Zick

  April 21, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer, Trails in the Sand

  authors, blog, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, fiction, novel, Route 66, sea turtles, Trails in the Sand, writing

• Checking on 2013 Goal Progress

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick At the beginning of the year, I posted my goals for 2013. Here we are three months into the year, so it’s time to see how I’m doing once again. I highly recommend checking on the goals. I’ve never done it before this year, and I’m finding it’s a great motivator…

  P. C. Zick

  April 8, 2013

  Writing Ideas

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• A Writing Gift to Myself

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick In the past few weeks, I resurrected the first draft of a novel I began in 2006 and then left when I accepted a job with the state in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2007. It’s tentatively titled Safe Harbor. The protagonist, Emily Booth, and the antagonist, Julia Curry, are names from another…

  P. C. Zick

  April 1, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer

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• My Interview with Jennifer Donohoe

  Jennifer Donohoe is a fellow author and blogger (A World of Writing). She does a wonderful job of also promoting her colleagues. Yesterday, she posted a summary of my new novel, Trails in the Sand, along with the first chapter. Originally, she intended to post an interview with me for her Wednesday evening author interview…

  P. C. Zick

  February 21, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick, Trails in the Sand

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• The Next Big Thing Blog Hop

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Author Lynn Thompson http://www.lynnthompsonbooks.com asked if I’d participate in the Next Big Thing Blog Hop! Since I launched my Next Big Thing Novel (Trails in the Sand) yesterday, January 30, it seemed quite appropriate to participate in my second blog hop. This blog hop requires me to answer ten questions about…

  P. C. Zick

  January 31, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

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• New Release – Trails in the Sand

  Press Release Deepwater Horizon disaster and sea turtles serve as backdrop in new novel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – January 30, 2013 – In Trails in the Sand by P. C. Zick, environmental writer Carolyn Carlisle reports on the danger sea turtles face as oil heads to the Florida coast from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in…

  P. C. Zick

  January 30, 2013

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• Birthday Celebration – Giving it Away

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I decided the best way to celebrate another year was to giveaway my book during the holidays. I’m a Christmas baby (December 23). I’m grateful I made it through another year, and I’m extremely grateful to have published two book in 2012. Live from the Road went “live” on amazon in…

  P. C. Zick

  December 20, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

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• A Second Look at the First Chapter

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick One of my fellow bloggers at eternal Domination  gave me this idea for a first “look” at my current work. His post Kool Challenge: Look Back at Look gave credit to the blog Read Tom Lucas for this idea. I decided to follow and do the same thing, and I hope…

  P. C. Zick

  October 31, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

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