In My Own Words
thoughts on writing, books and life
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Hey, What's Your Book About?
An intro to The Myth Maker – Coming to shelves July 2025 Introducing Detective Cassidy Cantwell The Myth Maker will be available 2025! Cassidy Cantwell has devoted her life to…
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Hello World! I'm Alie!
A new spot for my old blog Hi, Peep! Welcome to my new Substack! I’m replacing my blog with this page, but don’t fret! You can find all of my…
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It's Really Happening!
It’s been a full week since I was able to announce that my first novel, in what I am hoping turns into a series of novels, will be published in…
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From Fool to Forgiveness
When she dies, I’m going to write a story about her. I made the threat a million times. I’d write it as a work of fiction to cover my ass,…
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Magical Places
I don’t know who first showed me my magical place, but I know I was quite young. It’s a free place, open at all hours, with a vast amount of…
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The Morning Argument
I don’t want to get out of bed. The silk sheets have warmed to me, the dogs are in their beds, content. There’s nothing that says I have to get…
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Dark Matter
Dark matter lives inside of me.It’s a midnight colored spiral that moves from mind to heart to bowels.It is a staircase for the dark set of emotions that travels with…
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New Year, New Course, Old Memories
The new year has seen the start of a new writing course with Laura Lentz, and tonight we touched on memories. The prompt I followed was about flashbulb memories. The…
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Spinning
A little something from a 2 minute exercise. I can’t go on, I go on. What other choice do we have once we enter onto this Ferris Wheel called life?…
