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McKenzie Lynn Tozan

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There may be construction going on down the street

There may be construction going on down the street, but a lady could get used to this! 😎
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A big balcony where the kids can play, a place to write, a strong-enough internet connection, and lovely, fall-like weather. 🧡
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I have less than two weeks until my client's book is published, and then I have some of my own work to do that's been put off for FAR TOO LONG (like... querying agents for my debut novel and/or my YA series and/or two poetry chapbooks... 👀).
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Every year in September or early October, I feel t

Every year in September or early October, I feel the same call: to go back and reread Annie Dillard's THE WRITING LIFE. (I read this book for the first time in my sophomore year of HIGH SCHOOL to give you an idea of how far back this tradition goes.) But it's become an integral part of my fall, almost like a welcoming home, and most certainly a readying for the winter that I'm never really ready for.
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Reading late tonight, including this incredible po

Reading late tonight, including this incredible poem by Cameron Awkward-Rich. Enjoy.
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Good morning, friends! To start my day off on the

Good morning, friends! To start my day off on the right foot, I'm having coffee and breakfast with my kiddos, and I wanted to share one of my latest successes: my first article with the Digital Nomad Writing Club.
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I am nowhere near 40, but I love articles that work as a bookend for a decade: what you should read to wrap up a decade, what you should read as you're preparing for the next one, etc.
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I also think there are some high quality titles here! What would you include on a list for someone turning 40?
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LINK in the comments! Thank you for reading!
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Hi friends! I haven't posted (again) in a while, t

Hi friends! I haven't posted (again) in a while, thanks mostly to the times we're in... But I at least am here with fun news!
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I've been working on and off on the first novel in my GIRL TO MOON series, and I've also been writing a series of short stories that I plan to publish as a collection early in the new year.
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I'm planning to release one of these, "The Duplex," in anticipation of the full collection AND the new year, which follows a mother's grieving of her late husband and her child who has gone missing. But after a series of psychological turns and chilling bumps in the night, she begins to wonder if her child is really missing, and if there was really anyone to grieve at all...
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We all may miss trick-or-treating this year (I know I will), but this story is going to be available to read by the light of your creepy Black Flame Candle on Halloween night, with a few days and "ch-ch-ch-ch" and "ah-ah-ah-ah"s to spare. 🖤🎃📚
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More details coming spooky-soon...
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It's finally here! My review of Angela Voras-Hills

It's finally here! My review of Angela Voras-Hills' LOUDER BIRDS from Pleiades Press is live at Green Mountains Review.

If you enjoy stellar, subtle poetry with lyrical and imagistic turns, the dangerous and the creepy, taking chances and the beautiful---then I can't recommend this one highly enough. It's a beautifully-wrought, difficult, and highly memorable collection. It's still on my mind almost daily.

The LINK to my review is in the first comment! Thank you, GMR, for having me; I can't wait to read more for you soon.
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