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Author: Normandie

Thoughts

Finding Worlds through Words

27 July 2012By Normandie

Peopling worlds. That’s what we writers do, isn’t it? I’m no longer sailing Mexican waters or dropping anchor in some exotic spot. Some mornings, I

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Sifting through Blog Land

27 May 2012By Normandie

An interesting blogger decided to follow Sea Venture’s Journey (my sailing blog). Being the curious sort, I wandered over to see what I could see

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How To Sell Self-Published Books: Read This First

27 May 201223 July 2012By Normandie

This is not only very funny, but also very, very true. Now, I’m not self-publishing anything at the moment. But I do edit, and I

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A Marketing Revelation

21 May 201223 July 2012By Normandie

Fine, this won’t surprise the networking gurus, but as I commented this morning on a post over at Writer Unboxed called “Networking for the Cowardly

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Connecting with Folk: That Tribe Thing

12 May 2012By Normandie

In my last post, I wondered about tribes and finding one. Perhaps that sense of isolation came from so many years as a gypsy cruiser

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Tribes: Who Needs Them?

1 May 201223 July 2012By Normandie

  That fellow’s pointing at me. He’s a marketing guru (I’m sure), and he says that my next job is to make scads of social

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Becalmed No Longer

28 April 201228 April 2016By Normandie

Tadie Longworth wouldn’t stop poking at me. She was tired of her quiet, monochromatic life and all those breezeless days. I could sympathize. After all,

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Contests are great fun (although sales would be trump these)

18 April 2012By Normandie

Just a quick note to tell you that another of my stories is a semi-finalist in the Genesis contest. Can’t tell you which. Can’t mention

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Calling the Crew: Readers and Writers

26 March 201223 July 2012By Normandie

I’m a sailor — temporarily land bound — and I write stories of women who sail. Some of them sail small boats, some large ones.

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On Writing and Fitting in

2 March 2012By Normandie

Someone in the know recently said that few publishers want stories set in foreign lands. To fit in, I must be careful of the truth,

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