Author: Chris Jansmann
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New Year, New Books
Not to give out too many of my secrets here, but I usually try to write for my website fairly early in the week on what I like to call “Marketing Monday.” As a (very) small independent author, I wear many hats when it comes to getting the word out about my novels; from crafting…
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Life Imitating Art
“I’m the last person to tell you to tone down your workout,” I said as I pulled into traffic. “But I love you too much not to worry you might be doing real damage to that muscle. Did you see that sports medicine doctor I recommended?”Alex shifted uncomfortably in the passenger seat.Despite the heavy traffic…
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Special Moments
December always feels like the busiest month of the year, almost as though I’ve avoided eleven months of work so I can try to squeeze them the four paltry weeks we have left before the calendar changes to the new year. It happens to me every cycle, and in most cases, it’s just a psychological…
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Wintry Feelings
There’s a bit of a nip in the air these days in Arizona, a reminder that the seasons do, in fact, change here in the desert. A beanie and lightweight thermal gear have come out of the cupboard for my early morning runs, and more often than not, the water in my bottle is well…
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Website Blues
There aren’t a ton of overlaps between my day job and my secret life as an author, but the one that seems to tie them inexorably to each other is the work that goes into maintaining my website. I’ve probably selected a path that is atypical for most authors in that the solution I chose…
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Novembers with Sean
It’s kind of ingrained into me now to be up to my eyeballs in writing during the month of November. While NaNoWriMo may no longer exist, the patterns I developed when it was in full swing continue to this day, though I have to admit, the accountability the little word counter their website offered during…
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Coasted
At the risk of paraphrasing a classic song from the late 1970s, I’m back in Arizona after a whirlwind long weekend running through various parks at Walt Disney World. I’m still a bit tired – it will take a few more days to recover from putting that many miles on my body – but the afterglow of…
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Wine & Dining
As I write this entry, I’m wrapping up some final items at work and preparing to jump on a plane so I can complete the back half of the coast-to-coast challenge I blogged about a few weeks ago. It’s a bit hard for me to accept that the Fall has zipped by as fast as it has;…
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Finishing Touches and What’s To Come
I spent part of this past weekend putting the finishing touches on Belie, due out in a few weeks. Most of this effort was spent tweaking the cover art and then scanning the manuscript for any last-minute, egregious errors that might come back to haunt me later in the series. I have long lived in fear of accidentally…