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Greenwood Cove (Sunshine Walkingstick, Book 1) by Celia Roman
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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Sunshine Walkingstick Book 5 by Celia Roman
The Great Thing about Sunshine

The Great Thing about Sunshine

A while back, I wrote a blog post about how difficult Sunshine Walkingstick (Celia Roman) can be to write. At the time, I was completely burned out on Sunshine from pushing myself to write and release three books in the series back to back (common advice in self-publishing circles). I was certain I would never work on Sunny again. And yet again, I proved myself wrong. I ended up adding a third short story and a fourth book to the series,…

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What Sunshine Walkingstick and the Cullowhee Witches Have in Common

What Sunshine Walkingstick and the Cullowhee Witches Have in Common

It’s fairly common knowledge among my readers that I write under multiple pen names. What isn’t so common knowledge is that some of my stories across those pen names share the same story world, in this case the Sunshine Walkingstick Series (Celia Roman) and the Cullowhee Witches Series (Lucy Varna). The Cullowhee Witches Series came first and began life as the Witches of Cullowhee Series, which never generated much enthusiasm. I rebranded the covers for both books and republished them…

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The Problem with Sunshine

The Problem with Sunshine

I was just reading the (mostly favorable) reviews of the Sunshine Walkingstick Series over on GoodReads, and it occurred to me that some of the frustrations I had while writing Sunny were the same frustrations readers had with her. Let me back up a bit and add some background on the series and why I wrote it. During the first year or so after I began writing fiction, characters would pop into my head on a regular basis. Some were…

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Dreaming of a Dark Christmas

Dreaming of a Dark Christmas

I’ve finally finished all four stories in my “secret” project, a collection of dark Christmas stories which will be published under each of my writing names, Lucy Varna, V.R. Cumming, Celia Roman, and C.D. Watson, one story per name. I conceived of this idea after stumbling across information on chapbooks, and had thought to produce four super short stories and have them published either individually or collectively as a chapbook. Now traditionally, chapbooks are rather small in size and length,…

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