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Monthly Archives: December 2015

In 2014…no 2015… I resolve to… okay in 2016 I resolve to…

December 30, 2015

A new year is about to start and that can only mean one thing. (Or two things if you include trying to figure out WTF “Auld Lang Syne” means…) All over the world, people are about to go to a lot of time and trouble to come up with New Year’s resolutions and then they will actually try to keep those resolutions. This is so wrong in so many ways:

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Ten things I loved about you, 2015

December 27, 2015

What’s the best thing about renting a house for the holidays? Between my jeans with stretch lycra and the fact that …

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Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 8 – Charity Christmas Tree Topper Challenge.

December 24, 2015

  As part of Hugh’s Charity Christmas Tree Topper Photo Challenge, the incredibly generous Hugh will donate £1 to The …

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How to write #fantasy? RAINING EMBERS #RBRT #Bookreview #TuesdayBookBlog

December 22, 2015

So… you want to write a fantasy novel? I know! You could have a medieval-type world where the Dark Lord, once …

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All I really want for #Christmas is… #Sundayblogshare

December 20, 2015

While I’m travelling this week, here’s another Blast from Barb’s past — originally published in Champaign Urbana News Gazette, December, …

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#dejavu2015: Tap-Dancing on a Wire

December 19, 2015

Before cashing in all my karma vouchers to reach this enlightened plane of existence where I’m a writer and all my days are Saturdays, I headed up human resources for a series of technology companies. (Translation: I fired people.)

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Naughty & SO nice: #Bookreview of ADDICTION, #paranormal #romance by Sofia Grey

December 19, 2015

You might have heard me mention a time or twenty that I enjoy tropes. [Hey! that’s a rhetorical question—don’t think I can’t see you rolling your eyes…]

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Thank you so much Donald Trump for ruining my Christmas

December 16, 2015

I wish I could explain to Donald Trump what I told them. “There’s no such thing as Politically Correct. It’s just your way of saying that a big issue doesn’t exist because you don’t value it. So you deflect the debate onto what constitutes humor, or workplace camaraderie, or whatever else you want to call it. But to paraphrase the Bard—A turd by any other name would still smell like crap.”

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ANNOUNCING winners and runners-up in the 2015 Rosie Amber Golden Rose Book Awards #TuesdayBookBlog

December 15, 2015

Hooray! I’m so thrilled that Null City won the Golden Rose. Thanks so much to all who voted, and congratulations …

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Coffee with Barb & Sally Cronin ~ Oh, the places you’ll go, the people you’ll meet

December 13, 2015

I‘ll admit it. The only reason I started this blog was that I’d written a book and a trusted advisor …

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Superpowers suck? Try Null City. After one day there, imps become baristas, and hellhounds become poodles. But someone should have told them the angels were all on the other side.

Each morning, hope flares in the tiny flash of a second before I touch that first thing. And destroy it.

Warden Carey Parker's to-do list is already long enough: find her brother and sister, rescue her roommate, save Null City, and castrate her ex-boyfriend. Preferably with a dull-edged garden tool. A rusty one.

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