My Journey
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New Release Announcement
Well. 2020 has been a hectic year in a lot of ways (I refuse to say unprecendented because, far out, that word gets used a lot). With all the time stuck inside I’m excited to announce I’m ready to release my new book baby, an urban fantasy/romance, Singular Focus. “When Freya loses her right eye…
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Let’s talk about why that isn’t a compliment…
Yesterday I attended an end of year picnic with some people from the Life Models’ Society. A person approached me: Them: You look like you’ve lost weight. Me: [laughing] I really haven’t. Them: Then why do you look like you have?Me: [awkwardly ignores the comment and goes back to my previous conversation] Let’s break down…
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NaNo-Success
Well, November felt like it took several years, but I’vecome out the other side with another NaNoWriMo successfully under my belt. Woohoo! For this year’s project I rewrote a story I started in 2014. I had done a full manuscript, 78k words with rewrites, but I didn’t like it; it was in several different points…
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Share-house Woes
I haven’t written here for a while, what with work, the pandemic, and everything else, I’m busy but not interesting. Earlier today, going for my government sactioned daily walk to a local coffee shop, I was listening to Josh Earl’s ‘Dont You Know Who I am?’ podcast and they were walking about crappy housemate stories.…
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Virtual conferencing
I bumped into a real estate agent in the supermarket yesterday who I had some dealings with about eighteen months ago; she recognised me behind my mask from my earrings. ‘How are you? Are you working from home?’ I asked. ‘Yes, I’m getting used to it now after a couple of weeks.’ ‘A couple of…
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Six Months Later…
Global pandemics, like grief, affects each person differently. Some people in my circle have been able to produce a lot of work during the pandemic, others have produced almost none at all. I completed a survey last night on the effect of the pandemic on mental health which included an array of psychological test scales. One scale…
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Das ist verboten
It’s been nearly four months since I was hit by a car. Some of you may be surprised to know that I’m still hobbling around on crutches, although I am rid of the moon boot as of last week. I need one further surgery to get all the metal taken out, it was supposed to…
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The end of NaPoWriMo and other iso-productivity
Yesterday, 30 April 2020, was the last day of NaPoWriMo and I managed to complete my thirty poems in thirty days, as I have in years past. WooHoo!! I didn’t manage to do a poem every day, there were a couple I missed, but I made them up the next day. Many poems were about…
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Cover Reveal and Pre-Orders
In addition to taking isolation selfies, I have been preparing my third novel for release on 1 June 2020. I can now reveal the gorgeous e-book cover, made for me by Charmaine Ross. ‘Cassandra Morton’s life is a mess; her mother just died, her ex is a nightmare and her sister’s in trouble. Jason Harding…
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National Poetry Writing Month
Now we’re all staying home and not leaving the house for reals, I would like to invite you all to join me doing National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). I’ve done it a couple of times before and while some days are harder than others to produce a poem per day, I’ve come out the month…
Fleur Blüm 