Dear Fiction Writer, Despite what everyone else has told you, you don’t actually have to start a blog. In fact, you…
Category: M. Molly Backes
Confession: I find the idea of posting my agent query letter to be completely mortifying. I wrote it more than…
I never really thought about turkeys too much, not until one almost killed me. Before that, I liked eating turkey…
I wouldn’t let my mother read my book. I let my friends read it from draft one. A couple of…
To continue the, ahem, tradition that Debs Joanne and Erika started by talking about their writing traditions — or, in…
Writer Mark Baechtel once told me, “If you’re not scared when you’re writing, you’re not working hard enough. You must be…
I wrote the first draft of The Princesses of Iowa in a very methodical way: I made a chapter-by-chapter outline,…
Since the children’s book world has been the center of a crazy story this week, I thought I would talk…
You know the end of When Harry Met Sally, when they say, “We were friends for a long time. And…
I spent most of last week curled up in a cabin in northern Wisconsin, staring at Lake Michigan’s white-capped waves,…