Writing Things #1
Writing Things #1: Updates, Sneak Peeks and Bookish Thoughts 6 March 2022 Welcome to the first in a (hopefully regular) series of updates, sneak peeks and bookish thoughts related to my writing projects. I have a few of those because, like most authors, I have a bunch of shiny, sparkly ideas ringing their bells in my head, and it takes a will of steel to tell them over and over again, "not now". To appease the most insistent, I give up real estate on my list of projects in exchange for a little silence, because even when my…
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