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If I Could Have a Do-Over

If I Could Have a Do-Over

Back when Sunshine Walkingstick popped into my head in September 2014, I seriously considered publishing her stories under my first pen name, Lucy Varna. Two years later, when the first Sunny novel was published, I decided that her stories were dissimilar enough from the Lucy Varna stories that I should publish them separately. Thus was the Celia Roman pen name born. Over the past few years, I’ve rethought that decision, often with a twinge of regret. How much farther along…

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Failing Forward?

Failing Forward?

I’ve spent the past year recovering from a hard burnout, something I discussed here along with my plans to recover from it. When I wrote that post, I hadn’t fully grasped the depth of that burnout or the causes. Gradually, though, I’ve come to realize that I’d been sliding into burnout for years, and not every factor of the burnout was within my control. Be that as it may, I’ve had to take a hard look at my life and…

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