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Minor update to Sapphire's Place website.

Just a Minor update to my website. Links to the four new kindle books are now associated with the authors.

Sapphire

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'Turn,' An AMC series about Revolutionary War spies

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The new AMC series 'Turn' is the story of a Revolutionary War spy ring based on Long Island. It is describe in Verity as follows;

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Drew's new story entitled Two Weeks at the Last Firefly Inn

Greetings avid authors and readers of Bigcloset,

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Stolen Stories

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A few years ago there was an issue with Authors on this page having their stories stolen. And, sure enough, when I went searching, I found "MS Frankenstein" on a pay site. When I confronted them, the story disappeared, probably just to another pay site.

So, the issue is in the news again. It just makes me shake my head.

http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2014/03/pamela-wray-and-wordwo...

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Name Change

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Over 13 years after I posted my tg fiction story, I'm changing my writing handle. Danielle J is now Daniel Thomas. There are a couple of reasons for this.

My wife approves of this writing name.

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Taking a break

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Later on today I will post my story "The Stranger at the Table" and then I am going to seriously cut back on the time I spend online. I am going to be starting Phenom later today (the fourth book in the God Bless the Child saga) and also working on a biography, so it's not like I'm taking a break from writing.

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Bike

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Sorry folks, it's got too late for me to write tonight - fell asleep in the chair after doing a long bike ride today (long for me that is) with several climbs. I didn't sleep very well last night either, so hopefully, things will be back to normal tomorrow and Bonz can dictate the next exciting episode of Dormice in Space, or whatever it's called.

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And another I couldn't resist

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This I find a very clever caption - very clever indeed.

And in reply to the photo, I would say that I expect "Fowl Play" was involved, probably using a "Crow Bar".

Have a great weekend.

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La Donna é Mobile, or I changed my mind (again)

I was never happy with the title of one of my recent stories. I've fussed over this for quite a while. I changed Howard, His Friend, and their Wonderful Journey to Howard and the Completed Pass. I think that's a much more fitting title, and it's a lot shorter. If you haven't read the story, please do. For those that have, nothing was changed in the content, but it's okay to read it again.

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Lost Girl - Girl Found - New episode

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Hi folks.

It's been nearly a year now since Penny and I moved to France and over a year since we got married and I have to say, it's been brilliant - but for a couple of minor points:

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Descriptiveness in stories

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So, I've resumed working on two Sci Fi stories right now that have been in the oven for three plus years. I've been preoccupied with other activities that are both thankless at times and hard work, and now I feel worn out and bitter.

I've returned to writing full time, and want these tales to be wonderful. In College when I was taking creative writing there were lots of admonishments to describe, describe, describe. And I can only think of a few authors here who do a passable job of that, though many of the stories are entertaining, and fun.

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Just to let you know...

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This is just an fyi to let you know I am ~650 words into the next chapter of 300 Rains. Trying to get to the end of this so I can focus on the professional work more without it hanging over head. Besides, I so totally want to know how it ends just as much as some of you do.

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What's your writing song?

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Everyone has heard of 'thinking hat' or 'writing desk', but has anyone heard of 'writing song'? Basically it's the song that you hear to get yourself upbeat and in the mood to write something. Or it can also be a song that inspires you to do more than without. As for me, while I have plenty of imagination, I can't get in the mood to write if I don't have my writing songs on.

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Musings about reviews and reviewers.

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In between visiting my father in hospital (he's not at all well. we got a call last night to prepare us for the worst) and rushing hither and thither, I spent an hour or so writing and checked my Amazon page for any more reviews. It always staggers me that so very few people ever bother to review a book they've read. I mean, I've sold 21,938 kindle books in the last three years and have received only 258 reviews (178 on Amazon.com and 80 on Amazon.co.uk). That's just over one percent. That means 21680 people couldn't be bothered to leave a review - even an anonymous one.

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Jessica's Revenge Chapter Breaks.

Due to what was likely a brain fart, I neglected to include chapter breaks in part of the story that I edited for Barbie. I have since corrected that error and I hope the story will be easier to read for everyone now. There are also a couple of spelling errors that snuck in under my radar. They were pointed out to me by a kind reader, but I have left them alone. They are very minor and do not really affect the telling of the story at all.

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Shameless self-publicising

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This is a shameless plug, yet again. Following a chat with a trans friend who is also an author, I looked up her work on the net and found the website 'goodreads', which is mostly a place for readers to comment on published works. It also gives authors a chance to put up a little about themselves.

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looking for a fantasy story

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Looking for a story didn't mark as a favorite after reading it. In the story there is a kingdom where on the birth of the prince he is given blessings by the daughters and is cursed by their mother after she wasn't invited too attend his celebration of birth birth birth. Her curse is such that he can't see any women until the are married and he must be married by a certain age yet he isn't able to see any female but a boy dressed up as one of the girls at a morning prayer he sees and falls for.

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Some helpful apps for writers

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In my daily foray into the 'interwebs' I ran across a rather helpful blog post listing 22 apps for writers which I thought I'd share here for those interested. I only personally use two of those mentioned, Scrivener and Evernote, but the others definitely seem to be worth a look.

22 Apps and Tools Every Writer Should Know About

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an old tale

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There's a story over at Nifty that has for years been one of my favorites, maybe because it was one of the first TG stories i ever read. It's epic in length totaling at 3,421 KB, a monster story far as size goes. I go back about once every 2 years or so and spend about 3-4 days re-reading it. But for all these years...I've been trying to contact the author so that i can get permission to re-write/edit and repost the tale. I've of course e-mailed him, no dice... and i've tried tracking him down to no avail.

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Additional pictures

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Just to let people know, and I don't even know if people realized this, but the 2 missing pages of But, I am not a boy have been added. I hope that people take a look and comment and maybe leave a review on Amazon (I have absolutely none) of this important work. It is the first and only children's book written on a transgender subject by a transgender author (no offense to Jazz, but we know an adult wrote that).

So take a look and enjoy. There will be another post about something different tonight or tomorrow. I am sick and tired so I am going to hide in my bed and get well.

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150,000 thank yous

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I nearly gave up on posting tonight having spent an hour or so trying to get on site. Still my readers, though perhaps not as numerous as some authors have, are important to me, so I tried one last time...

It appears I now have 150,000 kudos, as I'm not allowed to give them to myself, then they must be given by others. My thanks to all who have clicked on the little button at the end of my story postings. Thank you x 150,000, please continue clicking on them, it's the only way I know readers like my stuff, unless they choose to comment as well.

Hugs to all,

Angharad

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Bike

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Sorry, too late home tonight, and then I watched the David Hare play, 'Turks & Caicos'. Bill Nighy was brilliant as the understated Johnny Worricker, gentleman spy or should that be spy who is also a gentle man.

Will endeavour to do better tomorrow.

Angharad

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Editor needed...

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Hey all, I'm still working on System, but I've found myself distracted lately. I've also been working on my "real life" story, but wound up scrapping most of it and starting over. After working on these stories (and other scrapped stories) alone, I've realized that I could really use some editing and creativity help (especially for the real life story). If you're interested, please message me

Danielle :)

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For thems that like the paper variety....new book

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I know that for many of us paper books represent the past, too much expense, too little room to keep them and subject to too many elemental disturbances.

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One Year Ago

It was one year ago that I posted my first story hear, God Given Face. I'd really intended to have my next story ready to go for today, but I'm afraid I missed that deadline by a country mile. As I mentioned, I changed jobs and moved, and that cut out a lot more writing time than I'd originally planned. So, at best, next story will be late next month.

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