“You have a book coming out. Aren’t you excited!” “Excited” is not the word that I or anyone around me…
Category: writing tips
If you hadn’t guessed already, I’m a little bit of an extrovert. That’s not always a plus in the writing…
We can discuss pitching and pitch letters till the sky turns green, but what would probably be more helpful is…
After I’d put my novel through dozens of revisions over the course of many years, I felt confident enough to…
Hey, let me tell you what I’m trying to do at this very moment: prep for my author marketing meeting,…
I read once that air traffic controllers must be able to concentrate in a room where multiple conversations are going…
Well, I’m glad Halloween is over. Now it’s time for more prosaic fears. Myself. Yup, it’s that time of year…
Halloween is a spook-tacular occasion, what with ghosts, goblins and ghouls ringing the doorbell and phantoms roaming the streets. If…
Maybe you don’t know this about me yet, but I’m a big procrastinator. I mean BIG. So when I ship…
I’ve had a lot of really, really good editors in my career. The student news editor at my high school…