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Pam on May 23rd, 2010

It’s not writer’s block. I’ve never really experienced it to any degree. What I do experience is the inability to write due to guilt. Good old-fashioned shame over wanting to write when I have other stuff going undone. Trivial, unimportant stuff like paying the bills. Making dinner for the family. Moving the laundry along. Taking [...]

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Pam on April 5th, 2010

So what’s going on in the world? I’m feeling good. Like some positive vibes are at work, downloading in the background. Can’t really explain it. Planets aligning or some such malarkey. When I feel this way, I want to share it. So here, have a slice! Been hard at work making decisions about my career, [...]

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Pam-Anne on February 25th, 2010

For those of you not “in the know” – “La-La Land” is the not-so-affectionate nickname of our City of Angels (originally El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula or The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion); some just call it “Smell-A” (nasty, ain’t it?) Why [...]

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Pam-Anne on August 21st, 2009

CAPE SEDUCTION is slated for a November 1st release in electronic format. Fourteen formats, to be sure. And you can bet LOTS of people will be getting digital readers, iPhones and Kindles for Christmas this year.

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Pam-Anne on August 6th, 2009

It’s going great. A LOT more fun than I thought it would be! And it’s forcing me to write on-the-fly. I offered these topics, now I must make good on them. (What was I thinking??? LOL). Monday kicked off at Life of a Publisher. Confession, my actual article got lost in cyberspace and never made [...]

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Pam-Anne on August 3rd, 2009

This week’s spotlight lighthouse is Admiralty Head on Whidbey Island, Washington.

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Pam-Anne on July 24th, 2009

I’m blogging all over the place anyway, so why not hand pick a variety of entertaining spots to visit while I’m at it? The entire schedule can be found on the Book Tour calendar on my website…

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Pam on June 18th, 2009

This is about electronic books, or “ebooks” as they’ve come to be known. I’ve had books available in this format for ten years now. For ten years, I’ve been waiting for this manner of reading to come into its own. It’s getting closer, just not there yet. There is a lot to write about with [...]

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Pam-Anne on June 15th, 2009

Was murder on Jerry Lambert’s mind as he stared out the bus window on that scalding, sweat-soaked L.A. morning? Does Los Angeles have its own particular brand of crazies, just scratching by amidst the daily roadblocks of urban life, the scorching summers, shaky seismic plates, potholes and panhandlers? Sisters in Crime of Los Angeles is [...]

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Pam-Anne on May 17th, 2009

I didn’t think I needed to write any more about John. I wrote 6 pages of tribute and delivered them in front of 150+ yesterday at a memorial celebration in his own backyard. But here I am, still thinking about him and his life and his untimely passing. Death affects us in a myriad of [...]

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