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In the Trenches: Editors, agents and trolls, oh my!
August! How the **** did that happen? Oh, yeah, family vacation. And, then just family. Oi. Ok, after an embarrassingly long absence, I’m back. The list of items that needs to be dealt with is staggering. And it also has me freaked out. There is a book that needs to be edited and then handed…
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In The Trenches: The Querying Ordeal of Silent Rejection
As a writer there is an intrinsic part of this journey that cannot be avoided – unless you are a frikin’ unicorn. The rest of the 99.999% of us must query. And querying is hard. No lie. As a writer, you hear ‘no’ a lot. And really – most, like 99% of the time, there…
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What is Complex-PTSD (CPTSD)
What is Complex-PTSD? Definition of CPTSD Complex post traumatic stress disorder is a psychological disorder that can develop in response to prolonged, repeated experience of trauma in a context where the individual has little or no chance of escape. That is the clinical definition of Complex-PTSD (CPTSD). Other resources will explain CPTSD as a form…