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Media Coverage Links!

 Hi all, just real quick - some recent media coverage feature the GWB and myself as we continue to do our educational outreach and charity works: Writerly Things, a local media piece about our mission, first launch, coming sequel and showcasing some of my best pals from the GWB: http://celebrategettysburg.com/gburg-writers/  A quick media blurb and photo (see if you can find me!) of the GWB presenting our proceeds to charity: https://www.gettysburgtimes.com/news/local/image_e7d50765-3e58-5a0c-90a8-d14a3f33e073.html and  Our first press piece about the GWB I can remember where I was mad I looked fat https://www.gettysburgtimes.com/news/local/article_6acd2ac0-c1a7-5915-99fd-ef8d5aeba6dd.html Have a great day everyone, keep reading! 

Refocus time; June is PTSD awareness month

 Sometimes we get away from our core focus and skills. This blog is about the craft, but I'm not the expert or master, I'm still learning. I enjoy my work with the Gettysburg Writers Brigade (hereafter GWB) and I am an active contributor. My primary focus needs to be on my voice and my writing and my fans. Today at GWB we focused on branding. I think I write from a place of great hurt. My brand is dark, suspicious, subversive, angry, but it's also hopeful, healing, and even loving. My heroes overcome with great sacrifice, they succeed because of their hurt, they're limitations. Certain important ideals I hold dear shine through.  One of my compatriots in the GWB, lets call him Tumbleweed, said after reading Salem that the best part was the afterword (he enjoyed the story too). The message about my own hurt and experience with healing, the resources listed and my offer to help anyone who asks, anyone that finds them in those haunted places near death where that story cam

Long Absence Update!

Hello fans, friends and family! Guess what has happened? I just had my BEST sales month, for a month without a new book launch - thanks to all of YOU!!! Yes, word of mouth is driving sales. I have spent $0 on advertising these last three months, focusing on schooling and work. I've found suitable work for a writer who is slow in producing new tomes. Teaching. At least substitute teaching at the moment, but I'm back to work pursuing a second masters. This time, it's a teaching certification program in Pennsylvania,  The sales bump is all you, my readers sharing your kind words about my works, driving new and growing sales. So, THANK YOU ALL!!! I love my readers, I'm coming up with a promotional thank you give away to thank my kindest reviewers on goodreads and amazon, stay tuned for updates.  I do apologize for the delay in my postings, I am very sorry, I beg your pardon as I struggle with my disorders, the divorce, my growing kids (my oldest just had his worst year ever