Years ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the best books ever, A Wrinkle in Time, speak. I brought my sister, a designer along. L’Engle was inspiring, gracious, and fascinating and when her talk was over, my sister turned to me and said, “She makes me wish I was […]
No snappy titles today, but I’ve got lots of great writing links for you. So let’s get right to it. Are you trying to ride the news cycle with your current novel? Might not be the best idea. I gotta admit, sometimes I wonder about this: is writing fiction a worthy endeavor? What is your […]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this Sunday November 1st? Why yes, yes it is, Charlotte. Thank you. So you know what that means: Drumroll, please…. It's time for Nanowrimo! What's that you say? You just crawled out from your writing cave and you haven't heard of Nanowrimo? Well, let me clue you in. […]
As I've announced at least fifty million times in every place I could possibly think of, I'm busy rewriting my novel for my new agent, Erin Niumata, which is why things have been quiet around here. But as I've been concentrating fiercely on my rewrite the last couple of weeks, I've realized some things that […]
I was talking to my friend Janet yesterday, and I told her my story about acquiring my agent. "Wow, when the time is right, things happen fast," she said. Yes, they do. And, when the time is right, things happen a bit differently. I do NOT recommend this, but I ignored lots of the advice I routinely […]
Okay, guys, Nanowrimo is on the horizon, swiftly approaching…just four more days! I know many of you like to torture yourself with the task of writing a 50,000-word novel in a month. And even those of you not participating this year (I'm sitting it out) still would like to know the magic formula for getting […]
I am so excited to introduce you to debut author Kayla Dawn Thomas and to have the privilege of showing off her new cover! Kayla Dawn and I met and made friends on Twitter (see? It is much more than just a waste of time) and I've loved reading her tweets about the progress of […]
Hi. Hope you had a great Christmas–I did. Okay, so we've got that done with, let's get to it: announcing the winners of the Christmas 2013 giveaway. Here we go: Dani wins the 25 page critique. Leigh wins the Moleskine journal. Mary wins a copy of my novel. Okay, but that's not all. I've […]
I'm all over Steve Chandler these days. I have no idea where I first heard of him, but I've been reading his book on time management, Time Warrior, and I've learned a lot. Since I subscribed to his newsletter, I also got a free PDF (which I sent to my Ipad to be read on […]
Travels In Elysium by William Azuski I was asked to review this book and I readily accepted because, well, there's nothing I like better than receiving random books in the mail and diving into them. Here's the blurb the publisher and blog tour folks asked me to include: Literary fiction blends with Plato’s tale of […]
