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It’s Release Day for ALL THE LIES–Meet Julia Ford!
It’s October. It’s Thursday. That means a new BREAKDOWN novel is being released! Meet Julia Ford. Julia, like me, came to Shutter Lake for peace and safety. Being an investigative reporter, Julia was used to investigating brutal crimes and interacting with some...
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One Incident Changed Everything–Twice
One Incident Changed Everything--Twice Death and loss and grief impact us in different ways but the burden is always a heavy one. We struggle with healing, with feeling normal or even letting light penetrate the veil of darkness that enshrouds us. No one is...
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IT’s Release Day for SO MANY SECRETS
Sometimes the best laid plans get… well, waylaid. Vicki and I have been looking forward to the release of So Many Secretssince the end of March—truthfully longer, but that’s close enough—and during the time she’s supposed to be uploading my posts, her website goes...
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Meet Laney Holt–the dead girl has arrived!
Meet my friend, Laney Holt. Laney is a strong women haunted by a dark event in her past. We all have our trials, but she handles hers, and herself, with such discipline and grace. I love that. The USA Today bestselling author, Debra Webb had the privilege of...
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Giveaway
Readers of my blog and books: To celebrate the upcoming release of So Many Secrets, I'm giving away 5,000 copies of the prequel, her deepest fear. This Short Read (just shy of 60 pages) is about Dr. Dana Perkins, the protagonist in both this story and in my October...
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Making a Difference
Note from Vicki: This begins a series of articles--insights on Dr. Dana Perkins, the protagonist in So Many Secrets and Her Deepest Fear... Why Do What I Do When Other Things Are Easier? Making a Difference There comes a time in every life where a person starts...
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It’s Release Day!
Today the Short Reads release in the Breakdown series. I’m excited. These four women--Laney, Dana, Julia and Ana--are ones you come to know well during the course of the Breakdown novels. In these Short Reads, we (meaning, the authors), wanted to share the...
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Girl’s Night Out
What a week! Let me say, I love writing. I love books. I love creating whether it is a novel, a short story or a column or an article or a book cover. But this week… This week has been a trial in patience. We all have tough weeks. Times when other...
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You’re Invited…
Tomorrow night I have the pleasure of chatting with John and Jeff Ayers on Suspense Magazine Radio. We'll talk books and writing--and honestly, who knows what else? When we get do these chats, sometimes we veer into those life, death and universe chats I love so...
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Times of Trouble
TIMES OF TROUBLE By Vicki Hinze Troubles take many forms, but the simple truth is no one escapes them. There are times in life for everything. Joy and grief, success and failure, weariness and elation. Some call these cycles of life. Others call them seasons. Whatever...
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