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Anyone Up for a Swim in the Lake?
FACT: Sometimes, Lake Michigan looks like this. Got your sunscreen?
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Arctic Blasts and the Reason for Fiction
Thanks so much to so many of you who downloaded free stories yesterday. What took me by surprise was that the overwhelming favorite of the day was “Beneath the Winter Weeds,” the story I wrote last...
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Celebrating Five Years of Gut Check Press
Recently my husband, author Zachary Bartels, and our good friend (and Zach’s indie publishing business partner) Ted Kluck realized that their micro press, Gut Check Press, was turning five years old....
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Michigan Gets Under Your Skin – the Jeff Daniels Edition
Most of my lifetime, Michigan has been bleeding population, largely the result of the collapsing manufacturing sector as factory jobs were outsourced to other countries (this largely as the result of...
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Camp Lake Louise 2016
The weather was hot and perfect for waterfront activities. The kids were engaged, generally nice to each other, and most had pretty good attitudes. The campfires were fun (I was the “fire guy” for the...
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