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6/20/2025 Weekly Update

6/19/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write There was a meeting and things were done, but Sid is on her way to Cincinnati for the historical bike exhibit, so expect a more comprehensive update next week.

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DON'T MEET YOUR HEROES - OR MAYBE YOU SHOULD

(The names of the public figures discussed in this article have been changed. I do not want to color anyone’s opinions of these people with my own thoughts, nor do I want to be seen as besmirching any of their reputations.) I recently had a conversation about the problems and rewards of meeting authors one likes. The person with whom I was speaking said she would never, under any circumstances,…

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6/13/2025 Weekly Update

6/12/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write We met, we wrote, we Did The Things! Mickie worked on several chapters of her Charlie’s Web re-write. James is in the same boat, as he worked on his edits for Homegrown Murder. These are hard to quantify, as you’re tweaking and tightening – there really isn’t a word count to report. But, we can report that we’re getting closer to getting these two novels…

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6/6/2025 Weekly Update

6/5/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write: Monthly Meeting We met, we talked, we discussed all the things. First thing: I can finally reveal the mysterious secret project I’ve been alluding to for a while now! We are starting a newsletter! The first issue should be available July 25th (which means I need to figure out how to put a sign-up button on the website). The first issue will be an introductory…

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5/30/2025 Weekly Update

5/29/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write A two-for-one (because Sid didn’t get around to posting last week’s update due to taking an extra-long weekend). Last night was a Perfect Coven series bible update. Mickie has created a trio of interesting characters – hockey players for the GLU team – but they were only very generally sketched out. Sid and James are interested in using these characters, so…

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May2025 Blog Post: A Perfect Coven Short Story

Book Club Shelley and Jarvi walked into The Mug, hand-in-hand, as usual. Annaliese walked beside them, quiet as usual, though she’d been chatting easily on the drive over. The group stopped at the counter, placed their orders, then Jarvi said, “Go on back, I’ll bring our food and drinks.” Shelley nodded, gave him a quick kiss, then she and her roommate walked toward the back room where the book…

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5/15/2025 Weekly Update

5/15/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write Well, I was wrong, apparently. Tonight’s meeting has been canceled due to Mickie traveling (Sid was traveling last week), but Sid and James are doing series bible updates and/or writing sprints. I promise that the entire group will be back next week* with actual updates to report.  See you then! *Unless James suddenly schedules a trip, in some sort of odd…

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5/8/2025 Weekly Update

5/8/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write Tonight’s meeting has been canceled due to Sid traveling, though Mickie and James are doing writing sprints without her. We’ll be back (as a group) next week, so see you then!

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April, 2025 (I know it's May, hush)

To myself: Mickie sweetie, you have really put yourself through it. As I write this, today’s you is very unhappy and stressed out.  We know that you did this to yourself, and that you are the only one who can get you out of it.  (Barring a world destroying asteroid – which comes with an entirely different set of problems.) You are making the effort though, and that counts. You are determined,…

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5/1/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write: Monthly Meeting

Well, here we are, May already. I swear, I think someone stole an entire week of April. It went by entirely too fast. Still, stolen week or no, last night was our monthly business meeting. As usual, we discussed Graeae Publishing, what we’re doing, and what we are planning. Those updates are on the Graeae Publishing page, the monthly Happenings post (click the word “Happenings” to check it…

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4/25/2025 Weekly Update

4/24/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write Last night, we did something new. It was supposed to be our series bible update, but it’s actually pretty much up-to-date at the moment. So, we took last night to discuss social media, how Sid uses it currently, how we (as a group) could leverage it, and brainstorming some things we can do, individually and as a group. We did come up with several really good…

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4/17/2025 Weekly Update

4/17/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write Tonight’s meeting has been canceled because Sid has a visitor and there are shenanigans happening! Not to worry, we’ll be back next week with writing shenanigans. See you then!

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4/11/2025 Weekly Update

4/10/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write Last night was a pretty low-key meeting, fingers on keyboards, tapping away…except. LOL – always an except. Except – Sid couldn’t find her most recent version of Cursebreaker’s Dance (it’s probably on a USB flash drive; she needs to check), but James came to her rescue with the most recent version he has. He emailed it over and Sid was off and running. But…

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4/4/2025 Weekly Update

4/3/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write: Monthly Meeting Monthly meeting last night! We had a pretty hefty agenda, but moved through it and actually covered all the topics. Go us! The business portion was covered first, as always. More information on that is available at our sister site, in the April Graeae Happenings post. James is hard at work on our current Secret Project, which – barring Life…

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WORTHWHILE?

I recently came across a notebook that I had not seen in many, many years. I had thought (assumed, hoped, wished, prayed) that the notebook had disappeared into the void. In fact, when I opened the notebook I hoped it was something other than what I feared it was. No…it was as I feared. It was a novel I had written – in longhand – when I was twelve years old. Think about that for a minute. A…

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3/28/2025 Weekly Update

3/27/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write Last night was our series bible update meeting, but honestly, the series bible is pretty up to date at the moment. So we took the time to discuss our use of social media as a group and considered doing alternating months of series bible updates and social media content creation. We thought doing content creation together would mean we could do some group posts…

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3/21/2025 Weekly Update

3/20/2025 → Thursday Skype & Write Mickie canceled on our meeting last night because she has Cruise Crud and is coughing like a fiend. However, James had something he wished to discuss quickly, so I said I’d jump on and Mickie could go rest.  (She didn’t go rest.) So I did, and James logged on, and then I got a message from Mickie, also wanting to log on. I let her, but she was flushed and…