Tag Archives: Penumbra

Wednesday Words – The Wisdom of Coffee

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Silver James

As I’ve been mentioning a lot lately, I’m reading contest entries so no book quotes catching my eye–at least none I can share yet. So, I’m falling back to one of my favorite topics. COFFEE! And I figure at least … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Tease – Sade’s New Orleans

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Silver James

I finally got around to downloading the photos I took in New Orleans back in December so I thought I’d share a few of them with y’all today. I have them in thumbnail to save room and band width. You … Continue reading →

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First Friday Forensics – Blood Types

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Silver James

Uhm…my bad. I forgot that I’d planned on doing a blog about forensics on the last Friday of the month. I blanked that out last Friday. I blame it on the cough medicine. But…since I am the owner, curator, writer, … Continue reading →

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Wednesday’s Words – Opening Lines

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Silver James

Studies show that readers have short attention spans and a writer has to grab them within the first few pages if not actually the opening paragraph. With that in mind, I thought I’d share the openings of some of my … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year – 2014!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Silver James

Happy New Year from me, Iffy, and all the characters living in our imagination! May 2014 find you healthy, wealthy and wise. And surrounded by family and friends, your life full of merriment and joy! But most of all, I … Continue reading →

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Inspiration–or Lack Thereof

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Silver James

The subtitle of this post should be: SO MANY STORIES, SO LITTLE TIME. “But…but…?” you ask, pointing at the title. My lack of inspiration had to do with a topic for today’s post. I remembered a comment I made about … Continue reading →

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December Fun!

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Silver James

Ooh! Look at the calendar. It’s December 1st. Do you know what that means? It means I’m participating in two very fun “parties” for readers. See the two pretty invites over there on the right? The top one–all blue and … Continue reading →

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Writing Stuff, Nonsense, and Other Stuff

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Silver James

Writing Stuff: Thanks for your patience in my not posting yesterday. Because I was so focused on finishing and then editing, CHRISTMAS MOON is now in the hands of a very capable editing team. Final count came to almost 31K … Continue reading →

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The NaNoWriMo From Hell

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Silver James

I’ve mentioned before how competitive I am, right? Well, I am. Not quite obsessively so but…well…pretty darn close if I’d be honest. I was first introduced to the cray-cray that is National Novel Writing Month in 2006. I’d discovered a … Continue reading →

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New Week, Old Work

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Silver James

How was everyone’s weekend? My OSU Cowboys won. Crossing fingers they can keep it up but they’ve got a hard schedule coming up. It’ll be a fight. I started reading DEADTOWN by Nancy Holzner, based on B.E.’s recommendation. I’m not … Continue reading →

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