Ann Aguirre – YASH! (go team PINK)
Interview with Clay from Like Never and Always 1) People want to know why you cover for your brother so much. Why don’t you set the record straight, so people
STOP APOLOGIZING
I see people apologizing for their genre, what they write, where or how they’re published… Or, maybe apologizing isn’t the right word. The right word is dismissing their accomplishments. STOP
Edit Rounds, Typos, and the Finished Project…
This meme has been floating around, and got my re-thinking about something I think on often… HOW DO TYPOS SURVIVE? For those traditionally published, you KNOW that typos make it
Four Letter Word
FOUR LETTER WORD and what it takes to get a story right. I met Christa Desir sometime in 2012, and I feel SO incredibly lucky to know her for about
YAY! I made it! Oh, wait…
A frenzy of self-publishing followed Amazon’s program to allow authors to publish their own works. A bit slowly at first, and then an explosion in 2011 and 2012, which is
Things We Forget
I remember a moment of time before I signed my first publication contract when I would hear published authors say – All of you newer writers, enjoy this time of
Hone Story-Telling Skills Without Writing
I’m going to start this post with a short personal note. Over the past week I put a house on the market that I designed and built. I had my
Manuscript Isn’t Selling?
The thing I hear most often at writing conferences is the following : I’ve edited and edited. Worked and worked. And I still can’t get an agent or publisher interested
How to be Your own Beta-Reader
I’d like to begin this post by contradicting myself – YOU NEED BETA READERS WHO ARE NOT YOURSELF. But really, there are a few things you can do to be
A Little Late for an Intro.
Yeah, it’s a little late for an intro, but I’ve rarely been good at following rules. I grew up with the kind of dad who used a lighter to detect