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Two Writers, Both Alike in Dignity — Not Much. Together, They Fight Crime.
December 17, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
The more attentive amongst you will have noticed that this website is run by two people. (Although Paul doesn’t post very much because he’s stinky. Or it could be that whole ‘finishing his doctorate’ thing. One of those.) In addition to being friends and co-website owners we’re also superheroes. (Okay, not really.) We fight crime. […]
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The Beautiful Part of Writing is That You Don’t Have to Get it Right the First Time Unlike, Say, Brain Surgery.*
December 14, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
I have been working on the same chapter for like two weeks. Well, sort of. The problem is, this chapter is the lead in to the latter part of the book and I keep staring down the line at the end and changing my mind about the approach. I mean, I know where I’m starting, […]
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This. This is What I’m Writing About
December 13, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
People keep asking me what the book is about. There are lots of different answers to that, but the core of the story — it’s about the friendship between these two guys.* Friendship, swearing, and alcohol. It’s at least remotely possible this book is not YA. * Just so we’re clear. The two guys […]
I Need a Conspiracy
December 11, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
I have spent the last few weeks trying to figure out how the last third of the book goes. My original outline for that part of the book was all of seventy words long, so you’ll understand it needed some expansion. I mean, my outlines at the best of times are usually a couple of […]
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Am Thinking of Skipping Christmas and Staging a Nerf War
December 10, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
Arkem: The present is for you and for Rick and Paul. Mostly for you. Me: Wait — if it is for them too I should wait until they are here. Probably. Arkem: It’s really three presents. So you could have your surprise. And then you could surprise them. Me: Ooh. That sounds like fun. I […]
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I Have Assembled the Tree and Am Gazing Morosely at the Decorations
December 7, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
I have been having a minor failure in sleep lately. I am working on it… If you accept ‘working on it’ as ‘grumbling about it, occasionally drugging myself, and contemplating in a not particularly directional way talking to my doctor about the headaches that have still not gone away’. It has a sort of interesting […]
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How Many Beta Readers Do You Need?
December 6, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
Someone asked me the other day how many beta readers I usually have for a book. I thought I’d share my answer since it’s a question I get fairly often and it’s a bit complicated. Fundamentally, it’s a fight between wanting as many people as is humanly possible to give feedback and the opportunity cost […]
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
December 5, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
So we’ve known for some time they were making a sequel to X-Men: First Class. It’s been given the disturbing? entertaining? kinda freaky? rather suggestive? title Days of Future Past. I have been excited/concerned/waiting to see how it’ll turn out. I mean, it could be good. The last set of X-Men movies only turned to disaster on […]
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Paul McLaughlan
platform thing 
December 18, 2012
by Kandace Mavrick
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