I’m happy to share very good (SQUEE) writing news today. My amazing, stupendous, superstar critique partner, Karen Stivali’s, first published novella, “Always You” comes out today. “Always You” is a great story about the value of being friends before you fall in love and discovering that the person you’re meant to be with is sometimes right under your nose. Karen is an incredible writer, which is the reason I am her critique partner (aside from the fact that we share a brain, but that’s a different blog post),…
Looking at music through the lens of youth is a funny thing. Whatever you liked can make you seem like a goof or a genius, depending on the band, and a lot of that comes down to sheer luck. Like everything that may or may not have gone your way as a kid, you can blame it on your parents if you want. My parents played me The Beatles and The Stones and Cheap Trick when I was a kid and I loved it all. Very cool. But…
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