Cassandra Chandler

Author: Cassandra Chandler

  • It’s Official!

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    Wandering Soul is now the first of “The Summer Park Psychics” series! Samhain Publishing and the lovely and talented Holly Atkinson will be working with me on the sequel. I’m so excited to share it with you! …In 2016 🙂 You can pre-order Wandering Soul on Amazon.com now so that you don’t miss it when…

  • Blooming

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    Last month, we enjoyed the Wind Moon—a time for clearing and letting go of what we don’t want. I let that thought be a meditative focus and cleared out two closets and a room that had fallen into entropy. All of those spaces are now being put to much more useful effect! May’s full moon…

  • A Novel Use for Planners

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    I try to be careful about keeping track of when things occur in my stories. This is especially important when writing series with books that contain overlapping events. Wandering Soul is actually the first of three books that will hopefully mark the beginning of such a series. The next two occur over the same three-day…

  • Columbia’s First Voyage

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    A while back, I wrote a post called Write What You Know. In it, I mentioned watching Columbia launch and that I needed to tell that story. Here it is. My dad was an avid astronomy fan. He had a 4 inch Unitron refractor that his dad built from a kit. Great for planetary viewing.…

  • Patience—Revisited

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    One of the skills I’ve been really building lately is patience. Every step of the way in the publishing process, waiting is involved. Get an idea. Patiently type out each word until the book is done. Set it aside, even though you want to edit it NOWNOWNOW. Realize edits will take much longer than you…

  • Happy Birthday, Dante!

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    On April 2 of the year 1881, in the world of Wandering Soul, Dante Lucerne—the hero of the book—celebrated his 36th birthday. He spent the day in quiet reflection, wandering through the theatre where he worked and lived. Rather than give in to the feelings of isolation that sometimes plagued him due to people’s reaction…

  • April Fool’s

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    I’m not a fan of April Fool’s Day. I don’t like pranks and am always sure to let people know if I suspect they have shenanigans in mind. A particular birthday comes to mind where a friend decided to prank me incessantly even after I expressed my displeasure about it. That was the end for…

  • Thick Skins

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    I have been blessed by having friends with very differing tastes in books. Some of them love romance novels and some don’t. I’ve had friends with both outlooks beta-read my works, and all their feedback has been helpful on my path. The ones who read romance have a wealth of knowledge about the genre. The…

  • It’s Alive… ALIVE!!! (on Amazon)

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    I just found out that Wandering Soul is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com! I am ridiculously excited by this and have been scrambling to get my author page set up while telling everyone I know (and some people I don’t) about it!!! The timing couldn’t have been better—I had already taken the day off…

  • Adaptation

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    I love Oxford commas. I really do. On the printed page, they help my brain process the words I’m reading. In official correspondence, they help to make my meaning absolutely clear. In an ebook? They can really slow things down. That doesn’t mean I can just skip the commas and hope for the best. It…