This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 318th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

Thanksgiving is this week.

This week, these last few months have blown by so quickly that it's hard for me to get my head around that.

So let me wish you a wonderful holiday full of friends, family, food, football, and lots of time

to reflect on the blessings in your life.

As always I have to take a moment myself to reflect on the blessing that you, the word

players who listen to this podcast and read the blog and my books are to me.

I'm honored to get to be a part of your day and thrilled when you stop by the site or Facebook or Twitter to be a part of my day.

I feel very blessed to be a part of the global writing community

and to be sharing art and craft with all of you every single day. So, Thank you.

In other news, don't forget that this entire month

is a wind-up to the release of my diesel-punk novel Storming on December 4th.

And you can still enter this week's giveaway the... my diesel punk novel storming on December 4th.

And you can still enter this week's giveaway.

The winner will receive a beautiful custom hardback book cover

for their e-reader.

You can also hop by my website at KM-Y-L-A-N-D.com

slash news for a fun peek at the various elements of inspiration that

serendipitously combined to create storming.

The latest post in the video series on my blog is busting six strong female character stereotypes.

It kills six of the prevalent but misguided notions

of what makes up a strong female character.

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