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with Drake The Duck Muse
Multi-Genre Author ~ Editor ~ Book Designer ~ Writing Coach

The Blog Thingy
Where Emotion and Information are Dispensed Inconsistently... Sometimes
You'll find some interesting stuff here...
a few Op Eds, some Writing Craft Information, Book Reviews, and More. Poke around the categories and see what ruffles your feathers... in a good way!​



The Road Not Nearly Traveled Enough
July 2021 For the past week, I’ve been on a Writing Hermitage at our cabin in northern, lower Michigan. My husband and I acquired this...
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Reflections On My Time In A Bookshop
January 2019 It was an interesting eighteen months at The Grey Wolfe Scriptorium; filled will joy, chaos, and good friends. I learned a...
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I Love The English Language... But...
January 2019 I love the English language. It is by far my favorite thing about having a brain. It is my soap box when I am feeling...
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Finding The Right Key... A Perspective On Rejection
January 2019 When I was a youngster, in our utility room pantry lived an old five-pound coffee can filled about three-quarters of the way...
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Be Prepared... Scar Wasn't Kidding!
January 2019 For many years, I believed that the energies of Fate ad Kismet were far more important than the energy of Preparedness. I...
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Memorable Books From Childhood
December 2019 There's been a trend in recent years to gift books at a baby shower in lieu of cards. I think it's a fantastic idea, and...
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Three Wishes: My Encounter With A Book Genie
December 2019 It was near midnight on a night in late December. The madness of the holiday season was nearly over... just the ball drop...
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An Open Letter To The Publishing Bigots* Of The World
June 2020 An observation from my writing desk while perusing writing forums on the Internet… It seems to me that many writers are engaged...
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A Ship In A Harbor Is Safe, But...
December 2020 One of my favorite quotes is from Albert Einstein... "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."...
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What If They Erased Pooh?
March 2021 After spending the past few days nearly suffocated in the news that Dr. Seuss Enterprises (a foundation that I thought was...
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Who Is In Your Tribe?
September 2021 I'm not sure this happens in other "industries", but we hear the word "tribe" tossed about a lot in creative circles. ...
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The State of Returns... We Should Be Sharing The Risk
October 2021 Since I published my first book in 1993, I've been confused about the return policy our industry seems to accept. Now,...
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Indie Publishing: Is There Too Much To Lose?
November 2021 This morning, in one of the Facebook groups I follow, I saw a post, reminding authors about the (primarily monetary) risks...
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Tears In The Reader... and A Moment of Wow
December 2021 I've been working on the new edition of my romance novel, A Tryst of Fate , lately. I'm tightening the prose, reformatting...
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The Power of The Pen! Community Service and the Written Word
January 2022 For any who take the time to get to know us, they will find that Community Service work is extremely important to Drake (my...
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