Category: Books
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Furlough Preparation: Paying off Car Loans with Ebook Sales
This post on paying off car loans with ebook sales is post #5 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. In my last post, I talked about using near-zero-interest-rate savings to pay off a big chunk of my car loan. With a safe cushion in the bank and all but the last 9 months…
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Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing
I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d done more academic research into empathy, narcissism, and evil before beginning my novel, I might have tried to fit Lilah…
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Channeling Insights: Signs of the Real Deal
Most people hear the term channeling and immediately think eitherfraudor nutcase. Or maybe both. Sometimes they think possession, which is probably the scariest impression. Channeling, from what I’ve observed, is a way of tapping into deeper insights, whether the person doing the channeling interprets them as being from the Higher Self, a dark but highly…
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Art as an Act of Faith
Art, I am discovering, is the ultimate act of faith. Do you see this photo of the path through the woods? I cannot see where this path ends. As with Life, I can see only a few steps ahead. In places where the path is straighter, I can see farther, but what’s around that next…
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How National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Is Like a Diet
My NaNoWriMo project–one that was loosely plotted ten years ago in NYC after a writer’s conference when I was on a roll. In fact, I loosely plotted a whole series with the same characters. Life has intruded, and many other books have been written meanwhile, but it’s time to jump back into the fun of…
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Writers, Rejection, and the Law of Attraction
The last book I wrote for Silhouette’s now-defunct Bombshell action-adventure line, with the fabulous Natashya Wilson as my editor. Loved this story, loved my editor. And yes, it’s very dark for anything Silhouette has ever produced. This article is from the upcoming book, 23 Ways I Screwed Up My Life with the Law of Attraction—and…
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Shoe Fetishes, Crazy Writers, and Escaped Mental Patients
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Separation. My car smells like Dragon’s Blood. Dragon’s Blood incense, that is. I took some to a New Age friend’s house recently to burn in a blessing that needed a little extra boost of power for something she was writing. I forgot to take the…
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Expanding Knowledge, Painlessly
Balancing work with play at Grayton Beach State Park. Photo credit: Aislinn Bailey Balancing work with play at Grayton Beach State Park. Photo credit: Aislinn Bailey Have you ever discovered that your intentions came true, just not in the way you planned? Happens to me all the time. A little over a year ago, I…