Story excerpt

Hi, all– Here’s an excerpt from a longish short story that will be posted tomorrow on one of my Yahoo groups (if you’re a member of the Virtual Living Room, you can read it there). I’ll also be posting it on my website. In the meantime, here’s a bit of it. (or, if you’d like, [...]

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Andi’s at the Bar Rag…

Hi, all – Here’s a podcast of a fun convo I had with Andy (yes, Andies abound! I’d make some crack about the Andes, but whatever) over at the lesfic chit-chat venue the Bar Rag. The convo ranges from writing to reading to women in film and movies to…well, go see. And when I talk [...]

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Work in Progress Excerpt

Hi, peeps! Hope you’re groovy. So here’s another chapter of a work in progress. It’s a romance. WHAT? Andi Marquette is writing a romance? Is she HIGH? Now, now. If you visit my website, you’ll see that 4 of the freebie stories I offer are romance. I’ve just never written a book-length romantic kind of [...]

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Another Book Giveaway?

That’s right. I’m offering up a copy of my newest novel, “Maye’s Request”, hitting bookstores January 18. All you have to do is offer up a comment before January 17. I’ll put all entries in a hat, close my eyes, and pull. Good luck! Here’s the blurb: Freshly out of college and possibly in love, [...]

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Excerpt from book 2, Far Seek Chronicles

Hi, folks! All right, before we get into this excerpt of the forthcoming second installment of my science fiction series, let me preface it with a previous blog I did here that explains space opera. Here’s the thing. If you are expecting lesfic in space with this series, that’s not what you’re going to get. [...]

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Excerpt from a work-in-progress

Hiya, kids! Hope this week has not kicked yer butt and that you have enough energy to have yourselves a faboo weekend. Some of you may remember that I posted Chapter 1 of a work-in-progress here last month. HERE IS THE DIRECT LINK TO CHAPTER 1 OF THAT EXCERPT. In case you didn’t read it. [...]

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Work in progress excerpt!

Hi, kids! Hope your week is treating you well. I’m usually working on a whole bunch of different projects at once, and this is a new one. Here’s the first chapter. Hope it doesn’t suck for you. Yep, it has a working title but it’s a secret. I generally don’t formally out a title until [...]

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post-GCLS and other fine stuff

Hiya, folks– Plumb tuckered out, yep. Had a great time at GCLS, and as I’m sure most of you have discovered, there are numerous reports, photos, and goddess help us all, videos of the panels, authors, readers, and events. So I’m just going to say that my panel on editing went faboo–but then, I was [...]

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The List

Like many folks I know, I signed up for the 50-books-in-52-weeks reading challenge. This past weekend, I finished book 21–right on pace to finish 50 this year. I’m not bringing it up because 21 is a special benchmark. Nor do I hold the number 21 in high superstitious regard (but I do think blackjack is [...]

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And just cuz I can…Chapter 3

Hi, Kids–I was going to post some handy dandy writing tips, but Jove provided some groovy links this week. Thanks, Jove! So maybe next time. And then I was musing about the fact that the game Pacman turns 30 today. Holy crap. And yes, before you ask, I played it like a fiend and had [...]

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