When going to a writers conference, you need to pack more than comfortable shoes. You need to pack your best pitch. Because when you get that face to face with an editor, you want to rock your pitch. Here's how to put your pitch together with all the right elements,...
Counting Down to 20 So when I got to this point in my writing, I decided I wanted to write about a collection of spinsters from a small village who had no hope of ever getting married. They weren't great beauties, they weren't fabulously rich, or well-connected. Just...
Today Heather McCollum, author of sweeping, magical Scottish historical romances, is visiting the blog. The answers to her "Five Questions" are fantastic! Welcome, Heather... Thank you so much for having me here today! What a fun way to learn about those of us behind...
When I use the app MapMyWalk for my daily walk, I love it because it says I climbed stairs rather than walked my 2 miles. The reason being I live in a very steep neighborhood. And my daily haul is nearly all uphill. So, stair climbing it is. And I realized as I was...
Every New Year each of us makes resolutions about our writing. “I’ll write 5 pages every day.” “I’ll sell my first book.” “I’ll snag that great agent.” And while each of these is admirable and there is nothing wrong with them, I think they miss the point of what it...
Time spent organizing a project before you sit down to write is always time well spent. Here are some ideas to incorporate into your writing routine: 1) Organize the chapters of your novel into individual sections in a notebook and keep it on your desktop, so it is...
