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🥄 A Pinch of Yesterday: The Bryan Kitchen Archives, Blog Two: Correction, Connection, and a Gold Star.
Oops. It turns out I misread the name. It wasn’t Mary A. Bryan after all. It was Mary A. Ryan . And honestly? I think she would’ve...
Misty Hayes
4 days ago3 min read
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A Pinch of Yesterday: The Bryan Kitchen Archives
Somewhere between the frayed cloth cover and the yellowed pages of a 1928 edition of The Settlement Cook Book , I found a life. Tucked...
Misty Hayes
Apr 123 min read
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Writing a Soul-Stealing, Scythe-Swinging Supernatural Series as a Coping Mechanism: 10/10 Would Recommend (Maybe)
Once upon a Kindle Vella, I set out to write a story about a girl who could see and speak to ghosts. It was supposed to be a fun, eerie...
Misty Hayes
Apr 82 min read
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⚔️ Weapon of Choice: What My Characters’ Weapons Say About Them
Not every weapon glints under moonlight or sings through the air like poetry. Some are forged in flame. Some are holy relics with the...
Misty Hayes
Mar 253 min read
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How I Wrote 70,000 Words in Under Two Weeks (and Barely Survived to Tell the Tale)
There are book drafts… and then--what happened to me... I don’t even know where to begin. Somewhere between the caffeine haze, emotional...
Misty Hayes
Mar 212 min read
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The Morally Gray Antihero: Why I Love Writing Gabriel Stanton
If there’s one thing I love more than a hero who wrestles with their conscience, it’s a villain who doesn’t think they need one. Enter...
Misty Hayes
Feb 273 min read
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It's ArtsGoggle Time!
JOIN ME SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 FROM NOON TO 10 PM Mark your calendar for the biggest day of the year in Fort Worth's (Texas) Near Southside...
Misty Hayes
Oct 9, 20241 min read
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A Renegade Curse So Fourth Wing
Okay, so maybe I took some liberty with the title: "A Renegade Curse So Fourth Wing." I combined titles from three spectacular...
Misty Hayes
Aug 19, 20244 min read
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Halo & Horn is HERE!
"Readers are advised to remember, the Devil is a liar." - C.S. Lewis I can’t begin to tell you how appreciative and amazed I am at having...
Misty Hayes
Aug 8, 20241 min read
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Love is in the air…try not to breathe.
If you're anything like me, you try as hard as you can NOT to celebrate Valentine's Day. Let's normalize Palentine's Day instead....
Misty Hayes
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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Together More in 2024
I apologize for disappearing. I've been working hard on the second book of the Ascended Guardians series, a YA Supernatural thriller...
Misty Hayes
Jan 11, 20242 min read
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Listening to a book is not only just as good as reading it, sometimes it's even better.
The incredibly talented Cliff Miller (@onemoremiller on Instagram) doing his narrator thing reading the part of Alastair in SHIELD &...
Misty Hayes
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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"When you’ve got the right voice on a particular text, it’s just magic to listen to."
Audiobooks bring another layer to the reading, or should I say, listening, experience. Being read to goes back to the days of parents...
Misty Hayes
Jul 5, 20222 min read
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Shield & Shade Audiobook is COMING!
Guess what's almost here? The audiobook for SHIELD & SHADE! I am so flipping excited to share this with the world. COMING JUNE 10, 2022,...
Misty Hayes
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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The New Year Stands Before Us, Like A Chapter In A Book, Waiting To Be Written.
I wanted to let you all know I am working on finishing A Spirit Within. It has proven a lot harder to write than I first thought it...
Misty Hayes
Jan 11, 20221 min read
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Kindle Vella Has Arrived
Squueeeee!! Look what's finally here!!!!! I am so flipping excited to share this with you. Also, just a note, I wanted to thank you for...
Misty Hayes
Jul 21, 20211 min read
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Serialized Book Episodes, YAY or NAY?
We live in a world where waiting has become a thing of the past. Bingeing movies, TV shows, books, and even comics are included. A little...
Misty Hayes
Apr 22, 20213 min read
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SHIELD & SHADE GIVEAWAY!
Young Adult Fantasy author Misty Hayes is giving away three (3) exclusively signed copies of her hardcover (with awesome dustjacket!)...
Misty Hayes
Apr 14, 20211 min read
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SHIELD & SHADE IS HERE!!
IT'S HERE, FOLKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIELD & SHADE!!!!!!!!!! EEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
Misty Hayes
Jan 21, 20212 min read
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New Year. New Reads. Better 2021.
Hello there! Did you go screaming into 2021 like a crazed banshee? Or did you quietly tiptoe into it, like a church mouse? I was the...
Misty Hayes
Jan 12, 20212 min read
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