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- Desperate Times, Desperate Pleasures Paperback #Giveaway
- THE BRIDE TEST: July’s Romance Giveaway
- Want to Read an Excerpt from Desperate Times, Desperate Pleasures?
- Two Giveaway Opportunities + Free Book of Teasers
- One Giveaway, Nineteen Nearly Free Books
- Amazon Pre-order Link and Cover Art for My Upcoming Book
- A Fresh Story on the Way!
- Giveaways Galore, Reviews, and Happy Belated Pi Day
- Free Book (You Can Lead a Child to Broccoli…) Coming to Newsletter Subscribers
- This Blog is Aliiiive. And I Hope to Keep It That Way.
- Happy Birthday to COLD AND HOTTIE
- Invitation to Participate in Upcoming Changes to Tartitude
- Merry Christmas to Me: Kirkus Reviews Recommends Opposite of Frozen
- Finally Finish the Dang Book (Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Q & A & Giveaway (Opposite of Frozen) with Christi Craig
- Happy Birthday to AUTHOR IN PROGRESS
- The Thurston Hotel Series Writing Cooperative Explained
- Meet My Book Baby, “Opposite of Frozen”
- So…I Have Publishing News
- Solitary Babes + Writer Unboxed
- Gathering Writing Lessons from Ye Olde Spiritual Practices
- What Do Gorillas, Trout, and Struggling Writers Have in Common?
- Hair as Blogging Metaphor + Writer Unboxed Redirect
- What’s Your Metabolic Age + Healthy, Comfort-Food Recipe
- Writer Stuns World by Maintaining a Regular Blogging Schedule
- Two Drivers, Two Hip Fractures, One Perplexed Jan (+Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Jan, Blithe Library Destroyer (+ Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- The Three Kinds of Vacation (+ Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Why I Decided Not to Tackle the Strip-Club Metaphor (and Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Would You Bet on the Stylist, the Plumber or the Doc?
- Bee Situation: Resolved (+ Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Two Graduations and a Funeral (Plus Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Spring Sharesies (and Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- A Note to My Zesties (+ Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- I Should Have Been Australian (Plus Writer Unboxed Redirects)
- Firecracker Alert: Joshilyn Jackson on Writer Unboxed
- Houston, We Have an Irrepressible Youngster (+ Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Can’t Find Time to Write? Jennifer Walkup Has Six Solutions for You
- Bad Reviews? You Might Not Want Me in Your Corner (+ Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Game-changer: Why Amazon Will Rule the World
- If You Are Your Brand, How Do You Go about Distilling Your Value?
- Between Your Kids and Yves Saint Laurent, How Many Degrees of Separation?
- Maer Wilson Interview & Giveaway: Relics (The Thulukan Chronicles #1)
- Google Reader Dies in Two Days. Have You Made a Will?
- Happy Endings Plumbing (+Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Are You at War with the Ordinary?
- Not Dead Yet. Not Even Mostly Dead (+Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Ongoing Brain Wars (Plus Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Worried You’ll Have a Disappointing Book Launch? Meet LynDee Walker, Antidote (Includes Book Giveaway)
- It’s Only Paranoia if the Buddhists Aren’t Out to Get You
- Victim of My Own Social Media Sting
- When Did I Stop Wearing Animal Prints? (Deleting Automatic Mode)
- Think Your Partner Doesn’t Support Your Writing? Look Again
- Hello! (And a Vigorous Book Recommendation for Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad)
- I’ve Made It Easier for You to Share a Blog Link (and Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Who’s Got News? This Girl, That’s Who
- Another Instance of My Good Girl/ Bad Girl Dichotomy (Romance University and Writer Unboxed)
- Nobody Donates Better: a Blood-Transfusion Opera
- Dare to be Delighted (and Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- The Relationship Between Honeymoons, Eyes-Open Sex, and Writing
- Why I’m Dropping a Regular Feature of This Blog, at Least for a While
- Writer Unboxed Redirect AND 4 Recent Examples of O’Hara “Fun”
- How Have Your Free Ebooks Impacted This Reader? And Other Questions Answered after a Year of Going “E”
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #10)
- 50 Shades of Green: Fifty Proactive Alternatives to Being Sidetracked by Another Writer’s Success
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #9)
- A New Start for the Tart (and You, If You’d Care to Join Me)
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #8)
- Daggers Drawn in Your Critique Group? This Post Can Help (Writer Unboxed Redirect)
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #7)
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #6)
- My Son Survived a Freak Bicycle Accident, but He Could Have Used that Blood
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #5)
- “That’s Former Dr. Tart to You”
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #4)
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: What Has 31 Authors and 1 Vision?
- Can You Outsmart the Tart? (Visual Pun #3)
- Lisa Brackmann on Her New Thriller, GETAWAY: Interview and Giveaway – Part II
- It’s Sunday, So Time for a Tartitude Visual Pun
- Stalking Michael Hauge and Other Non-Psychotic Matters
- Lisa Brackmann on Her New Thriller, GETAWAY: Interview and Giveaway – Part I
- A Visual Pun for Those Who Like Those Kind of Things
- So I Have This Unsympathetic Daughter…
- 5 Things Made of Awesome That I Cannot Keep to Myself
- Yes, Therese Walsh, I Accept Your Noble Challenge
- And the Winner of the Rib-Fracture Contest is…
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: When Writers Become Caregivers
- An Open Letter to the Makers of Tag Clouds
- Now That I’ve Broken Two Ribs, Shall We Have a Contest?
- You Can Set Your Watch By My Family
- Babystepping Your Kid to Kitchen Competence
- Interview and Giveaway with Erotic Romance Author S.A. Meade
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Q and A with Justine Musk
- Gratz for the Laughs
- Of Absences and Announcements
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Lost Touch with Your Story World?
- I Got Me Some Booyakasha Learnin’s from Da Ali G Show
- One Reason I’m a Fangirl of Writer Unboxed
- 8 Kooky Money-saving, Time-saving, and Health-saving Tips
- Zoom Zoom Wah
- I’ve Been Gone but I Have a Doctor’s Note
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: What happens when Jan tries to be helpful
- Tell Me a Tale of Two Dreamers
- 2011 in a Nutshell: Fire, Ready, Aim
- Road-Worthy Fudge
- Two Tiny Triumphs and a Writer Unboxed Redirect
- Christi Craig: Brave Host or Outrageous Risk-Taker?
- If I Opened Wider I’d Have No Face
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: What Do Gynecology and Writing Have in Common?
- Guest Post: Victoria Mixon on Fueling Plot Momentum
- Who Said Rashes Aren’t Fun?
- Fetish for Writerly Goods Lands Romance Authors in the Klink
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Keith Cronin, Author of ME AGAIN – Part II
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Interview with Keith Cronin, Author of ME AGAIN
- If I Had a Moustache, and Other Too-Early Morning Ramblings
- Here’s what I learned this week:
- Reprisal: A Letter to My Daughter Upon the Beginning of Her College Career
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: More Erin Morgenstern
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Want to Visit a Black and White Circus?
- Three Things That Please Me Greatly
- Construction — both Familial and Structural
- Writer Unboxed Redirect and MISERERE Giveaway Results
- The Overdue, Untimely, Yet Unforgotten Phoenix Post
- Interview and Giveaway with Teresa Frohock, Debut Author of MISERERE: AN AUTUMN TALE
- Writer Unboxed Redirect and Miscellany
- Mosquito Coast – Minus the Coast and Harrison Ford
- A Minute New York City Post
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Must Love Cacti
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Author Interviews – Part II
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Conducting Author Interviews – Part I
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Interview with Nathan Bransford
- Results of the Mary Stewart-Worthy 1st Paragraph Contest
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Interview with Nathan Bransford
- Survey on Author Interviews
- More Deets on the Mary Stewart Contest
- Can You Write a Mary Stewart-Worthy First Paragraph?
- Name That Pig
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Talking about Envy
- Oopsie
- So, This Canadian Walks into a Ginormous City…
- Beats: Writing Lessons of the Health-Care Kind
- Tart Research: Are These Typical-Guy Things?
- Writer Unboxed Re-Direct: Oh Noes! We’re Back in School.
- I’ve Hit the Limit to My Obsessiveness
- The Pong to Her Ping: Neck-Stretcher Part II
- Rock-a-Bye Inbox
- Okay. I Admit It. She Was Right
- The Tart’s Japanese Photo Album and Results of Elizabeth Loupas’s Giveaway
- Bowling for Words – How the Number of Pins You Knock Down Might Just Be Related to Your Writing
- Because My Every Thought Is of You…
- Elizabeth Loupas, Author of THE SECOND DUCHESS – Part II of Interview and Giveaway
- Monday’s Writer Unboxed Redirect
- Project: Nathan Bransford
- Elizabeth Loupas, Author of THE SECOND DUCHESS – Part I of Interview and Giveaway
- Winner of “Possum Summer”, Red Cross Contributions, and a Japan-Affiliated Cool Link
- Writers: an Opportunity to Enrich Your Career and Help the Red Cross
- Interview and Giveaway with Jen K Blom, Author of POSSUM SUMMER
- Blog Cultures, Lexicons, and What the Heck Should I Call My Readership?
- Are You a Muppet-Hearted Writer?
- Does Visual Media Kill Print for You?
- Bookshelf Landmines – a Reprisal
- Liz Michalski’s Prize Allotment! Cover Art! Mommy-Writers!
- My Kingdom for Some Conflict
- Please to Be Sampling the Curried Fudge
- Interview and Giveaway with Liz Michalski, Author of EVENFALL – Part 2
- Love in the Time of Zombies
- The Internet Giveth and the Internet Taketh Away
- Interview and Giveaway with Liz Michalski, Author of EVENFALL – Part 1
- Announcements and I Might Have Committed Some Teasing…
- Relaxed Writer: The Importance of Staying Loooose
- Interview and Giveaway with Alice Loweecey, Ex-Nun and Author of FORCE OF HABIT – Part 2
- A Quarter to “Trust Me” Time
- Writing Friends Don’t Let Writing Friends [You Fill in the Blank]
- Interview and Giveaway with Alice Loweecey, Ex-Nun and Author of FORCE OF HABIT – Part 1
- Playing with Time in Tartitude’s Three Things Full of Win
- The Attention Whore Asks, Did I Take a Wrong Turn at Ascorbic Acid?
- On Grabbing Writerly Fear by the Throat and Making It Say, “Mama”
- Kim Michele Richardson on Promotion, Reading Guides and Serving Community
- Redneck Snowplow Ahoy!
- Maintaining Sanity in a World with a 24/7 Newscycle
- If You’re Inclined to Feel Sorry for Yourself about Your Road to Publication…
- My Secret Vocation is [insert your answer here]
- 4 Resources if You’re Trying to Manage Your Weight
- The Late, Silly, and Not-New-Years Post in Which I Wax Enthusiastic about Several Things
- Designer Home, Designer Writer?
- Want to Give Christmas Thanks for Mothers-in-Law?
- Writer Unboxed Monday: Eleven Ways to Become a Sucker for the Unfamiliar
- A Jan Christmas-Fail and I Blame Mr. Darcy
- It Was the Best of Gift-Giving Times, It Was the Worst of Gift-Receiving Times
- The Guaranteed, Fail-Safe Method to Create Fun and Amusing Blog Posts Every Time
- Five Things Full of Win – Including an Update on My Barista and Teresa Frohock’s News
- Want to Help Build My Upcoming Interview with Dr. Brené Brown?
- How Barry Manilow Almost Made Me Take on an Ex-Nun
- Can Student be Teacher?
- Hope at the Mall: Courting the Sad-Faced Barista
- Results of the Timothy Power Giveaway and Can I Haz Feedback?
- Awhooooo! Interview with Timothy Power, Author of THE BOY WHO HOWLED – Part Deux
- Not Your Childhood Peter Rabbit
- Want to Ask a Question of the Writer Unboxed Peeps?
- Date Night!
- Awhooooo! Interview and Giveaway with Timothy Power, Author of THE BOY WHO HOWLED – Part I
- Writing Across Cultural Lines, the Week’s Schedule, and Results of Kathryn Magendie’s SWEETIE Giveaway
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Interview with Lisa Brackmann – Part II
- Interview and Giveaway: Kathryn Magendie on the GRACES Trilogy, SWEETIE, and an Exciting Opportunity – Part II
- Results of the Kathryn Magendie Giveaway (Part I) and a Funny Video
- Eight Things Learned in an Odd, Tartish Kind of Weekend
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Interview with Lisa Brackmann – Part I
- Interview and Giveaway: Kathryn Magendie on the GRACES Trilogy, SWEETIE, and an Exciting Opportunity – Part I
- Ghosts of Halloween Future?
- Quitting the Label “Quitter”
- Er…Blog Award Part Deux?
- The Slow-but-Not-Forgotten and Turnabout’s-Fair-Play Blogger Award Post
- Dog Walk in Alberta
- The Pictures Wherein I Make Us All Jealous about My Summer Vacation – I Was Actually There, Right?
- Writer Unboxed Redirect: Literary Award Ceremonies
- When Wanting to Make a Change, Find Hope by Finding Exceptions
- Befriending the Imposter Syndrome Beasticle – a Strategy for Writers Whose Internal Editor is a Special Brand of Nasty
- Happy Canadian Thanksgiving
- Designing the Ultimate Writer’s Retreat
- Interview: Author Hilary Wagner on the Value of Persistence and NIGHTSHADE CITY
- Winner for the Dee Garretson Giveaway and Mah Drool-Worthy Present
- New Digs, Gratuitous Daniel Craig, and Hopeful Writing Links
- Hardcore Partying: Tartitude’s Apple Corrupts Its Mother Tree
- Interview and a Giveaway: Author Dee Garretson on First Children, Crickets, and WILDFIRE RUN
- Mwahahaha: Building the Tart Orchard One Author Interview at a Time
- Writer Unboxed Monday: Avoiding Career Self-Sabotage
- Twitterscaping: Why I’m Abandoning Follow Friday and Writer Wednesday Hashtags
- The Wait for Halo Reach: a Gamer-Mom’s Perspective
- I Surrendered my E-Book Virginity
- A Letter to My Daughter Upon the Beginning of Her College Career
- Doddering Tart Asks Your Advice
- What Genre of Parent Are You?
- Why Disney Won’t Be Hiring Me Anytime Soon
- Passin’ on the Funny Link Love
- I Want to Be One of the Anointed
- The Habit of Bravery
- Book Lust
- Your Apology Would Be Most Welcome
- Writer Unboxed Monday: Gossip!
- Writer Unboxed Friday: Mac Attack – Part II
- Ground Rules at Tartitude
- Writer Unboxed Friday: Mac Attack – Part I
- The Post Wherein I Begin to Eat My Words
- Announcement-Announcement-Icebox Behemoth
- Planning Jan is Planning
- An Unboxed Redirect
- Streamlining the Citrus: Tartitude’s Interview Application Form
- A Bearable Being of Lightness
- University of Fun: the Reading List
- Author, Writer, Adverb-Fighter: Let’s Talk Titles Today
- Smallish Reveal: A Website – I Haz One
- Curdled Awesome Sauce
- Picking a Blog Name: the Origins of Tartitude
- If You Give the Tart an Ultimatum…
- Urban Fantasy – Alberta-Style
- Business Cards o’ Doom?
- Writer Unboxed Monday
- Three Huzzahs from Tartitude
- Twitter Identity Change: Do You Rip or Do You Peel?
- Phlegm Song (aka If Dr. Seuss Had a Head Cold)
- The Real Reasons Why Housekeeping Matters
- Three Tarty Winners and a Roomful of BP Losers
- 5 Things to Know Before WordPress Freshly-Presses You
- Temper Tartum
- A Post from Deep in the Land of Chaos
- Happy First Anniversary, Tartitude
- Asking Doctor Dolittle to Do a Little More
- An Update on my Kitty
- For the Love of a Kitteh
- Seeking Internet Sobriety
- Tart Unplugged
- Tartitude Salutes Single Parents
- Fledgling Boxcutter
- The Riches of Embarrassment
- Get Yer Insults Here
- Death by Family Photo Album
- Guest-Blog Fail (a Nathan Bransford Rejection)
- Four Favorite Things – May 5, 2010 Edition
- Goldilocks and the Three Mares
- Book Review: Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path
- Behold My Dorkiness
- The Tart and a Taste of China
- Tartitude: Putting the “Super” Back in “Ficiality”
- The Perplexed Prom-Parent Post, in Which I Don’t Discuss Writer Unboxed (Much)
- Road Trip Math
- Tart Takes to the Catwalk
- Muse Is Not the Boss of Me
- The “It’s Up, It’s Up!” Post
- You Want Me to Wax What?
- A Genuine, for Real Announcement (Delivered in Pictorial Form)
- One Good Egg Makes a Bad Easter Omelet
- Bittersweet Announcement
- The Frustrating Incident of the Wine in the Morning
- When The Tart Gets Too Sour
- Hip-Hop, Don’t Be a Ho
- A Random Note of Gratitude
- ConstructionFail
- Tongue-in-Cheek Geek-Freak
- Fun Links and Hijinks
- Sandman Rubs Me the Wrong Way
- The Tart’s Opposition to Resistance Training Weakens
- I Am Introvert, Hear Me —
- I Loves Me British ‘umor, I Does
- The Tart Revealed
- How Well Do You Know the Tart?
- You Might Be a Writer If…
- vlogging – Writer Catnip or Future Hairball?
- Suction and The Boop: Unexpected Writing Friends
- My Husband Picked His Name and Other Stuff
- Once Upon a Label
- TartStretch – a Gift from my Brother to You
- Up the Writing Creek with a Dissolving Paddle
- Help Me Name My Husband
- One Voice Exercise and Two Questions
- Introduction to a Special Week
- Broad Hints, Zombies, and Mumblemumble
- I Reject Thee on Grounds of Thy Cadence
- Three Hunks and a Poll
- Results of the “Lessons in French” Contest Giveway
- Laura Kinsale on Writing, Sirens, and “Lessons in French”
- Life-Long Learner
- Something Un-Fishy’s Afoot
- The Tart Interviews the Amy Bai
- The Monkey Made a Rat Out of Me
- Best of Tartitude – 2009
- Don’t Cha Wish Your Critique Group Was Odd Like Mine?
- My Mister Fixer-Man
- A War on Repetitious Repetitions
- Shiny New 2010
- Your Father Is a Hamster and Your Mother Smells of…Chocolate?
- The Commiseration Post
- Naughty Santas, Nice Sentiments
- New Moon, New Moan
- Polls Galore at the Tartitude
- The Semi-Awake Ramblings of a Born-Again Reader
- The What’s-Going-on-with-Hope Post (Unveiled Threats)
- Six Reasons I Have the Best Husband in the World
- Lentil Soup with Lemon
- The Joys of Soup
- Thanks Be to Thanksgiving Memes
- The Hand that Stocks the Cradle
- SFWA Response to Harlequin’s Position
- Harlequin’s Response to RWA’s Decision
- A Lobstick Post
- Sarah Palin Redux
- Musings Whilst Hyped-Up on Cough Syrup
- How Do You Measure a Writing Year?
- Symmetry – One Writing Mom’s Appreciation for Story in Life
- Please Help Organize My Computer Files
- A Charitable Cause
- Happy Halloween Linkage
- No Longer Hostage to the Un-News
- Murphy’s Law, As It Applies To Writers
- Eleven Embarrassing Things about Me
- Old Friends, New Links
- Ending the Brain Wars
- Evolution of a Blogger’s Family
- In Praise of Good English Teachers
- Rainy-Day Blogging Strategies
- October Compost
- Bookshelf Landmines
- From Ripple to Tsunami – The Hope Series, Finale
- Achy Breaky Tart
- PicApp Application for WordPress- a User Report
- Writing Rollercoaster
- Vision Quest – The Hope Series, Part III
- Sales Job – The Hope Series, Part II
- Happy Hernia Tuesday
- From Agony to Epiphany – The Hope Series, Part I
- What Writers Do for Fun
- Ring the Bells – It’s PAGL Day
- Empathy, Compathy, and the Writing Life
- Incoherent Friday
- The Kinder, Gentler Generation
- Curricula Postings for the University of F.U.
- The Honors and Accolades Continue
- Mmm… Cupcakes
- Blog Monkey, Blog Beneficiary
- Ground Rules at the Tartitude
- Hope’s Mad PR Skilz – Part III
- Clipped Wings: Coping with Rejection’s Sting
- Braggadocio
- Your Apology Would Be Most Welcome
- The Fruit of My Loins Speaks
- The Kreativ Blogger Award Goes To…
- Shiny New Word Toy. And Mockery.
- Jasper Shenanigans
- A Cosmic Take on Urban Insanity
- No Staycations for the Hope Family
- Hello, You Coy Muse 🙂
- Sweet Videos
- Narcissists R Us
- Claiming a Charter for Tartitude
- If You Are What You Eat, I Am Furball…
- Hope101’s Mad PR Skilz – Part Deux
- This Book Brought to You By… Coke?
- Health Resources I Wish Every Writer (and Non-Writer) Knew
- Wordmares
- Hope Demonstrates Her Mad PR Skilz – Part I
- More Pixels Spent on the E-Book Debate
- Fear and the Blank Page
- Uh-oh. My Dad’s Visiting…
- Does This Blog Make Me Look Fat?
- Eleven Revelations for a Newbie at Nationals
- Shoemakers on the Carpet for Sizism
- Farewell, Dear 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine
- Guest Blog Fail (a Nathan Bransford Rejection)
- A Belated Happy Independence Day
- Sated by “The Hunger Games”
- An Act of Total Selflessness That Is Completely Typical of Me
- Algebra, Tartitude-Style
- Never Give Up, Never Surrender–Except When You Should
- On Dogs, Children, and My Sainthood Paper Status
- Getting Your Muse On
- Grating Expectations
- A Pledge for Tartitude Integrity and Update on the Internal Editor Search
- Rumor Confirmed
- Inaugural Post (and how do you like my ballgown?)
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