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Fiction writer, coffee addict, cat owner...doesn't every "about me" say that, usually with a cutesy photo? I don't do cutesy. So I'll add to the list: I'm short, stubborn, very unfashionable, clumsy (typing this with a wounded wrist, always have bruises), opinionated, and a humanist. BS degree in Journalism '83, certificate in technical writing, addicted to reading, can't boil water without setting off the smoke alarm, non-skinny, politically active (and annoyingly loud about it). Love comfort, hate camping, wouldn't want to live in a world where chocolate and caramel hadn't been invented.
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Review: Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

Review: Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart February 14, 2020 UncategorizedLeave a comment

I received an Advance Reading Copy of Smoke Bitten via a contest. This is my non-spoiler review for those who won’t get to read it until March 17th.  Mercy is at it again. And so is Patricia Briggs — she’s putting Mercy through stress and pain, torturing her with life …

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January Reading & Book Reviewing

January Reading & Book Reviewing

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart January 22, 2020 UncategorizedLeave a comment

Here in Salem, Oregon, we have a wonderful program called “Salem Reads” that encourages all library users to read the same fiction book and then attend a variety of talks and presentations on the subjects that book touched on. I’m behind reading this year’s official book and talks are coming …

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Goals and Options

Goals and Options

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart January 6, 2020 Personal / Planning/Organizing / ReadingLeave a comment

Can you believe it’s the first Monday of 2020 already? It feels like my brain is still stuck back in November or so, and hasn’t really caught up. And yet part of me is already thinking ahead to next Christmas and making lists of possible gifts for people. I think …

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Alternate Versions

Alternate Versions

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart September 19, 2019 Non-Fiction Writing / Opinion Essay / PersonalLeave a comment

I submitted a short (3 paragraph) writing sample today. The content mill I submitted to wanted a short writing sample but didn’t want a first-person POV. So, of course, instead of working on the paragraphs I needed, I first wrote a first-person POV short essay on the subject. I find …

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Great vs. Good Writing

Great vs. Good Writing

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart September 16, 2019 Fiction Writing / WritersLeave a comment

I’m 1.5 chapters into Illona Andrews’ book Iron and Magic and I’m already finding it to be 10 times better than the cozy mystery I’m half-way through. The characters are stronger and because of that the world feels more real (and the Andrews’ book is a fantasy while the cozy …

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It’s a Draft!

It’s a Draft!

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart July 3, 2019 Featured / Fiction Writing / PersonalLeave a comment

It’s been more than a week and I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that I finished an actual draft of a book. 70,000+ words — some of them well written, and some thrown blindly at the page in hopes that the round 2 edit can actually …

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Neighborhood Garage Sales

Neighborhood Garage Sales

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart June 25, 2019 Non-Fiction Writing / Opinion Essay / PersonalLeave a comment

Summer to me means the rubbery taste of hot dogs, the whir of room fans, the smell of cut grass and gasoline…and the chaos of our annual HOA garage sale. I live in a house that’s part of a Home Owner’s Association, and have been on the board and on …

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Salem Reads Review

Salem Reads Review

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart March 4, 2019 ReadingLeave a comment

Salem Reads is an annual event (this is the third year) coordinated by the Salem, Oregon library. The Salem Public Library Foundation selection committee picks a book for each year, and creates a series of events around the book’s subject matter. This year the book was “Good Morning, Midnight” by …

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Copyright, Stolen Work, and Angry Authors

Copyright, Stolen Work, and Angry Authors

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart March 1, 2019 Fiction Writing / Reading / WritersLeave a comment

If you keep up with Writer Twitter (the area of twitter posts dominated by #amwriting and similar hashtags) you know about the latest upset about a Kindle author who plagiarized a whole group of romance writers, and used ghost writers to whack the stolen passages into a single (bad) book. …

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What I’m Reading: Feb 19 2019

What I’m Reading: Feb 19 2019

Tamra Heathershaw-Hart February 20, 2019 ReadingLeave a comment

I finally read the books I got for Christmas. I meant to read them in January, but the cold that I caught in October came back again in January, so I saved the books for when I felt better. Here are the xmas books: Hazard, by Devon Monk. So cute …

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