In just a few days, Book 9 of the Hot Dog Detective series, The Itchy Intruder, will be available to fans of Mark MacFarland. In The Itchy Intruder, Jerry Baker asks MacFarland to help him with his latest client, Ike Dawes, a hundred year old homeless man from South Carolina. Dawes doesn’t make it easy to prove his innocence. […]
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Some years ago, I tried Scrivener. Tried it and then shut it down. I don’t think I lasted more than a day on the free trial. Then, for the next several years, I lived in the Dark Side. Ignorant. Unknowing. Refusing to give Scrivener a try. Here were my complaints. 1) There were no instructions
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All writers have egos. That’s one of the things that drives us to write. We think we have something to say and no one is going to stop us! Some of us also have sensitive egos. While we fervently believe that what we’re saying is the most important thing ever uttered, we fear how others
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I met my editor! She is a real person! Not a computer algorithm or a heuristic writing/editing program! I was in California for a week and I thought I would actually go over my latest book, Desperate Druggie, with my editor, Tara Maya in person. “I have too many edits to simply discuss them on
How often does the average person sit around wondering why their social life sucks? I suppose if you are married, you don’t spend too much time thinking about this, though from what I’ve heard, most married people don’t have much of a social life anyway. Maybe I’m just talking to the wrong married people. When
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No, it’s not the musical group from Glee. It’s an idea for a new series of novels that I am working on. Don’t worry, it will remain in the mystery genre, but will overlap with the fantasy crowd and the humor crowd. I guess that makes the new series “the humorous fantasy-mystery genre.” The series