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This blog is for readers of Maggie Lynch fiction. It covers themes, characters, books and the writing journey for Maggie’s fiction

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How Do You Build a Fantasy World?

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Fantasy Books, Writing Journey
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Cora has the question for today’s blog. Here are her words: “I love your fantasy series with the Chameleon. You’ve built a unique world I’ve never seen before. It’s not like a lot of fantasy with vampires or mages or sword and sorcery. Yet it still has that flavor of epic fantasy. What made you come up with this world and how did you decide what that rules were for the Forest People and the…
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Why Writing Retreats Are Necessary for Me

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Writing Journey
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Preparing for a Writing Retreat For those who have been following me for a while, you know I take fairly regular writing retreats. I shoot for one per quarter, but the last couple of years it’s ended up to be two or three a year depending on all that is happening and how my budget is looking. They are almost always at the same place, a log cabin home built by Henry Steiner, a self-taught…
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PTSD and Writing Expendable

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Romance Books, Suspense, Writing Journey
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This one is from Sherri, and I think it is particularly appropriate for today’s date. She asks a question about my book Expendable: “Before reading Expendable, I never thought about PTSD. I heard about it from my Dad who was a soldier in the Vietnam War. But he didn’t really talk about it. I just remember him and my mom getting in fights, and when I asked her she said it was because of his…
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What’s up for 2019 Books?

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Romance Books, Science Fiction, Suspense, Writing Journey
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I mentioned in a post to my Reader Group on Facebook, that in July I was planning my 2019 books release schedule. I know it’s hard to imagine I’m already thinking about 2019. If I don’t have a finalized schedule by late October, I tend to start the year discombobulated. 🙂 I also find myself accepting too many joint projects (boxsets, short story anthologies, novella series) with other authors and not have enough time to…
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Themes Behind Sweetwater Canyon Series

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Romance Books
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Todays question comes from Evie Bohn. I’m going to quote her email to me so I don’t mess it up. “I love your books because they deal with real issues that women have. I’m kinda surprised though that you talk about fears and trauma around having sex in a romance book. I always thought that was a no no and I haven’t seen it in other books. Why or how did you decide to include…
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Trying Something New

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One of the things that writers need to always do is keep checking in with their readers. I do this primarily via my Facebook Reader’s Group, and through polls or postings I do in my newsletter emails. I’ve tried a number of different things on this blog and some worked well, while others not so much. One thing that seems to be liked is when I post about an author who may be new to…
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Featuring New Adult Author Kevin Berry

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Today, I’m featuring author Kevin Berry, who lives in New Zealand. Kevin writes stories that you rarely see in fiction. He writes about characters with a variety of mental and physical health challenges. This is very close to my heart because I have several siblings who have lived their life with these challenges. I have a brother who is on the Autism spectrum (now 50 years old) and 50% deaf; another brother who is non-verbal…
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Stephanie Berget, Western Romance Author

Stephanie Berget–cowgirl, barrel racer, romance writer

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This month I’m featuring a person I’ve only met once but knew she lived a life I have only seen on TV. As I grew up in the city (greater Los Angeles) my knowledge of horses was learned ONLY when our family visited Mountain Home, Idaho and my father’s best friend who had thousands of acres and mostly ran cattle. The first time I was put on a horse, I think I was 10 years…
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Accepting I Can’t Do Everything

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Author Marketing, indie publishing, self-publishing, Sundries, Writing Journey
I’ve often talked about my parents in my blog or social media posts. I am very fortunate in that, despite not having a lot of money, I was brought up to believe I could do anything, be anything, if I worked hard enough. That’s the American dream isn’t it? And I did work hard. I worked my way through college–all those costly degrees, even returning at age 45 to pursue a doctorate. I always worked…
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Featuring Author Jana Richards

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I have a real treat today for my readers. I’m featuring author Jana Richards! Just looking at her book covers makes me want to run out and buy the books right now. And this week she is running a countdown deal on her most recent release Truth and Solace. the third book in her Love at Solace Lake series. TODAY it is only .99cents!  Tomorrow it goes up to $1.99, then $2.99 on June 8, and back…
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