Author: P. O. Dixon
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Triple Treat: New Release, Relaunch, and a Giveaway You Won’t Want to Miss!
Autumn is nigh, and it’s by far my favorite time of the year. This autumn is especially delightful, as it heralds the release of my new book, Estranged. Here’s an excerpt: Want more? Visit my recently relaunched Patreon page for the enticing conclusion to Estranged, Chapter 1 and an intriguing start of a heart throbbing,…
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Suspended Pleasures and Other Diversions
Cliffhangers. They’re the bane of many readers’ existence, yet we writers keep using them. So why do we do it? Why do we insist on ending a chapter with a nail-biting cliffhanger? First and foremost, cliffhangers are meant to keep you engaged, creating tension and excitement, and giving you a reason to keep turning the…
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Past, Present, and Future Felicities
More often than not, my search for the perfect Jane Austen quote to serve as the epigraph for a new story begins during the pre-publication stage. I always find something Austen wrote that perfectly encapsulates my book’s underlying theme. In the case of Simply Beautiful, I chose the following: “Think only of the past as…
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Something to Celebrate: A New Audiobook on the Horizon
June is Audiobook Appreciation Month. Hooray! I’ve celebrated the occasion in one form or another since June 2013, when it was simply June is Audiobook Month. Today just happens to be a Thursday. In the spirit of #throwbackthursday here are some of my favorite audiobook graphics that I shared way back when. My audiobook creation…
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Spirited Pursuits
I have happy news! Spirited Pursuits: Tales of Passion and Perseverance is my latest book bundle. It’s available only on Amazon and enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. Here’s the cover and contents: Take special note of the eBook in the middle of the titles featured in Spirited Pursuits. It’s a Sampler Edition of my upcoming release,…
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A Hopeful Endeavor: Bringing Quotes & Drabbles to Life
Besides sharing full-length audiobooks on my YouTube channel, I have also created and shared YouTube shorts. If you’re familiar with YouTube, you know shorts are video clips, ideally under sixty seconds long. Here’s one example: I also created and uploaded a YouTube short that features a favorite quote from one of my books: In continuing…
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Arts & Allurements: A Cunning Duo
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, we see how Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas’s friendship evolves throughout the story. While they may have different views on love and marriage, they share a bond that is unbreakable. The same may be said of their relationship in Her Spirits Rising to Playfulness. Here’s the book blurb, which…
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A Peculiar Endeavor: Spreading the Delights of my Audiobooks
Those of you who have known me for a while know I am an ardent audiobook lover. My first audiobook, Bewitched, Body and Soul, narrated by award-winning Pearl Hewitt, was published in 2013. It continues to rank among my favorites. Since then, my catalog has expanded to include twenty-two professionally narrated audiobooks. In early 2022,…
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The Weather Prognosticator & On a Winter’s Day: A Vignette
Today is Groundhog Day! How could I possibly resist writing about the occasion? Groundhog Day has its origins in the religious holiday of Candlemas, celebrated on February 2nd. It was believed that if the weather was sunny enough on Candlemas to cast shadows, winter was not over, but a cloudy day was a sign that…