Tag: Yellow Springs
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Season for a side quest
New year, new challenges, new goals – right? Well… If you’re like me, the annual rite of New Year’s resolutions leaves me cold. And that’s not just because Winter Storm Blair has buried us under 7+ inches of snow. It’s because motivation is hard enough to find when I don’t have to also find the…
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Fatál is alive!
I’m not sure I truly believed this day would ever arrive, but here we are – Fatal Errors is alive in the ether and in print! Launch day/pub day/book birthday…whatever you want to call it, today (August 13, 2024) is special for me. And “what a long, strange trip it’s been.”* My first draft of…
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How Fatál became a hacker
**includes excerpts from Fatal Errors – available for pre-order now! After the principle caught me snooping through personnel files – I just knew smarmy old Mr. D had some kind of record that needed to be exposed – Zigana, my grandmother, moved the two of us from North Dayton to dinky little Yellow Springs, Ohio,…
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A Romani Surprise for Fatal Errors
What can I say about Fatál Wood, the protagonist of my new novel (besides pre-order here!)? I’ve learned I have to let her speak for herself! She woke me one morning to introduce herself with what is now the opening line of the first chapter in Fatal Errors: “So I’m a hacker – get over…
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No “Errors” here – just excitement!
Thrilled beyond words (hence the short post) to reveal the cover for my soon-to-be released new novel Fatal Errors! First in a new series, Fatal Errors introduces Dayton, Ohio, native and now Yellow Springs resident Fatál Wood (accent on the second syllable, please!) – a talented hacker with an attitude, an ingrained sense of justice,…
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A glimmer of hope
With the endless presidential campaigning in the US and the politicization of any and every news item, media negativity has reached a tipping point – at least in my life. I can’t take it anymore. More than once I’ve considered a lengthy social media vacation, but the tentacles of a writing life require a regular…
CL Pauwels at Large 