Something horrible happened to me the day I became an author: I stopped being a writer. I spent six years…
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Here is my time-tested, foolproof method of not writing. If you follow these seventeen simple steps, you may never…
As a reader, I’ve always understood how important it is for the characters in a novel to suffer. If the…
I hate conflict, so I wasn’t surprised when I had trouble putting my characters into difficult situations. When I…
I have a confession to make. I love my day job. I’m a baker. And everything* I know about writing…
When my revisions were complete, and my novel was in my agent’s hands, I got down to the…
My fellow Debs have done an amazing job this week of demystifying the agent querying process. All have given stellar…
It was 2007 when I first set out to understand the query process with a manuscript much lighter than what I…
Yesterday, Louise gave some of the best advice I’ve read on how to research agents. She suggested going to conferences…
The thing I’m most proud of stemmed from my biggest failure. The first book I wrote and finished (before Chasing…