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The Nintendo Book Tag with Missy DeGraff — Rogue Skies Blog

Welcome! Every Tuesday the authors of Rogue Skies will be bringing you some fun book/author tags! So what are tag posts? A tag post is a series of questions that we will answer and then challenge our readers or other blogger and authors to do too! It’s just a fun way to get to know…
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Fun Summer Activities To Do With Your Dragon

  Hello, it’s Emma here at the Rogue Skies pet line, ready to answer your questions about how to cope with those special family members during the summer holidays. No, I don’t mean your in-laws. I’m referring to that cute little dragonet you gave the kids for Christmas. Yeah, the one currently charring the back…
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Traveling Dr. Who Style

Do you love traveling? No matter where you fall into the spectrum of answers to that question, you can be sure there are some things to learn from Dr. Who. Now, there’s someone who knows about traveling! He’s been everywhere, in every time frame, with a number of different companions, in a multitude of cultures…
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Five editing tips to save a sinking story

Editing advice is depressingly easy to come by, especially when our work in progress is circling the drain. That’s when the armchair editors come out to play, usually with a sympathetic shrug and sad eyes. Then they gingerly toe our story as if it were a roadkill raccoon. Once we get past the impulse to…
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8 Must Read YA Fantasy & Sci-fi 2019 Releases

If there’s one thing I get excited about, it’s new books! I may have a small obsession with them! I particularly love YA Fantasy and Sci-fi books and right now is a wonderful time to be a YA reader! So many wonderful titles are coming out every week, and I’m here to let you know…
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How Will and Grace is the new Friends – but better

  Yes, I know it’s Will & Grace, but WordPress won’t let me use an ampersand in the post title. I recently finished watching the end of the most recent season of the Will & Grace reboot. At the end of it, Grace, who’s been dating Noah – played by David Schwimmer – gets on…
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Meet The Rogues — Cecilia Dominic

Author Cecilia Dominic   When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? According to my mother, I wrote my first story when I was two years old. I, of course, don’t remember this. I’ve always delighted in stories, though, and I remember being in elementary school and loving those pieces of paper…
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6 Skills You’ll Need in a Robot-Run World

It’s not that farfetched to say that one day in the not too distant future robots will be as commonplace as cell phones are today. Do you remember when phones didn’t work without a cord? It was a big deal when cordless phones could be operated as far as fifty feet from their bases. Then…
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Fatal Fashion

We think of clothing as a means of self-expression—fleeting or classic, occasionally silly, and frequently entertaining. Rarely do we think of adornment as dangerous, but history is filled with literal fashion victims. Rewind to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Clothing was dyed by natural sources, so unless one’s wardrobe was exotic and very expensive,…
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Changing History: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Alternate History

I love the steampunk genre, especially the alternate history aspect. The Art of Piracy, my story for the Rogue Skies box set, is set in the same alternate timeline as my Aether Psychics series. How can you change history to work for your own fiction? Here are some ideas. First, figure out your why. Some people…
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