Wordle weasels

It looks pretty sazzy, eh? Below are the highlights of my upcoming book, Haunted Stuff, using the web-based program Wordle. I'm using the program to catch the weasels in the book: the words that are overused, extraneous, or make me wonder how it wiggled in there in the first place.

Quite a pickle: What to leave in and what to take out

There are worse problems to have. The blog has been essentially dark (I apologize) as I write the new book and now that I'm in the last round of edits before it heads off to line edits, I'm faced with a conundrum: do I add in another great story and take one out before its August 1 deadline so that I don't go over wordcount? Or put the story on the website to flesh it out a little more? Hmm.

What say you, Internet? MOAR haunted goodies on the website or keep them for yourself in the book?

A seance with cocktail weenies? Why not?

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Excerpt:

“Get the lights, Betsy.” Marge needed her ambiance, she also needed a vodka martini but the chance of getting that with these gals dwindled with each serious look and dewy bosom attributed to the excitement of raising the dead. Marge suspected it was due more to the heat and lack of oxygen in the room than nervousness since Bernice hadn’t stopped smoking her Lucky Strikes after seeing that ad with Sophia Loren. Now the woman tramped around the room in low-cut gowns pretending to have an Italian accent.