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Category Archives: Guest blogs and bloggers

How to Survive Rejection
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How to Survive Rejection

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 74 Comments

An efriend writer originally published this as a guest post on their blog to help me launch my latest prehistoric fiction, Against All Odds. In case you missed it there, here are my anecdotal thoughts on how to survive rejection (something I know a lot about): *** I have a lot of experience with rejections. … Continue reading →

I’m traveling–How I’m Doing on LoN #5
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I’m traveling–How I’m Doing on LoN #5

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 1 Comment

This month, I’m joining Janet Rose’s Readers Circle where I will share my writing process, how my month of writing has gone, and a few ideas about the next book in the Dawn of Humanity trilogy, Laws of Nature. A boy blinded by fire. A woman raised by wolves. An avowed enemy offers help. A … Continue reading →

Seasonal Creativity
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Seasonal Creativity

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 88 Comments

Here’s a wonderful guest post from efriend, Cherie Dawn, author of Girl on Fire, on seasonal creativity. I haven’t written about this… well… ever on WordDreams so I’m thrilled Cherie offered to discuss it. It’s actually a big problem for a lot of writers. Season Creativity: How I Stay Creative in the Cold of Winter … Continue reading →

I’m traveling…
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I’m traveling…

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 1 Comment

  I’m over at Chrys Fey’s wonderful blog, Write With Fey, today, to discuss why readers give up on a book. Here’s the link. I’d love to have you visit! Continue reading →

Chatting with Liesbet About Her #1 Debut Novel
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Chatting with Liesbet About Her #1 Debut Novel

Posted on January 22, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 120 Comments

I have rarely enjoyed a memoir as much as I liked Liesbet Collaert’s, Plunge: One Woman’s Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary. Maybe because at my core, I’m nomadic. She does what I wish I would (and don’t). Here my review if you’d like to read more about this wonderful life story. No surprise, I … Continue reading →

Hello to Janet Glaser!
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Hello to Janet Glaser!

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Jacqui Murray • 85 Comments

Janet Glaser officially launched her latest memoir, Arranging a Dream. A feel-good story about successfully starting a business while raising an infant, moving to a new town, and not knowing the industry. Janet’s story is exactly what we need to escape for a few hours from the worries and insecurity in our lives. Blurb In … Continue reading →

Frozen Crimes by Chrys Fey–A Chilling Adventure
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Frozen Crimes by Chrys Fey–A Chilling Adventure

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Jacqui Murray • 38 Comments

So excited to welcome Chrys Fey to my blog for her book tour for Frozen Crimes, Book 5 in her Disaster Crimes series (which is amazing reading). I love this series. I’ve reviewed several of them on this blog–Tsunami Crimes, Lightning Crimes, and Hurricane Crimes (click for my reviews). Each centers on a natural disaster … Continue reading →

Welcome Patricia and her new book, Influenced
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Welcome Patricia and her new book, Influenced

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Jacqui Murray • 57 Comments

Welcome to Patricia Josephine and her new book, Influenced! Influencers are the voices that whisper in our ears. Tiny Angels and devils sitting on our shoulders and guiding our choices. They are sworn to thwart the other. It is their duty. Or so they thought… Nothing is as it seems and questions are piling up. … Continue reading →

What I learned from the characters in Against All Odds
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What I learned from the characters in Against All Odds

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Jacqui Murray • 70 Comments

When I wrote my first novel, To Hunt a Sub, I found out that I learned a lot about life from my characters. I wrote about that here if you’d like to check it out. That novel is set in the present day but my newest novel, Against All Odds, the third book in my … Continue reading →

I’m over at Ankur’s–Come Visit!
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I’m over at Ankur’s–Come Visit!

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Jacqui Murray • 1 Comment

Today, I’m over at Ankur’s blog, Dark Office Humor, to share my newest book, Against All Odds.   Ankur is the author of the ironically-humorous book, What Happens in Office Stays in Office. If you want to chuckle while nodding your head in agreement over the workaday world in large corporations, read his book. A note: … Continue reading →

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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy, the Man vs. Nature saga, and the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, blog webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice, a columnist for NEA Today, and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Laws of Nature, Summer 2021.

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