Kimberly Belle For the past few months, I’ve been making the promotional rounds for my second novel, The Ones We Trust. I’ve been talking to readers and touring on blogs, and one of the questions I keep getting is, how was writing this story different than writing the first one? My answer is always the […]

Susan Spann  Welcome back to the #PubLaw negotiation mini-series here at Writers in the Storm! The last post took a look at how to create a pre-negotiation plan. To re-cap: Now, let’s look at tips for increasing your chances of success in the actual negotiation: 1. Like flies, publishers prefer honey to vinegar. No matter […]

Marilyn Brant Thanks so much for inviting to me to Writers in the Storm today and for asking me to share a little bit about the group blog anthology I worked on this spring! A few months ago, I organized a writing/promotional project for one of my blogs, the Girlfriends Book Club, which is an […]

Scott Wilbanks You know you must be desperate when you find yourself Googling random word combinations in the hope that a book title will magically make itself known to you. To be honest, after a week  and an endless series of, “that’s good, but no thanks”, responses from my publishing house, I was grasping at […]

Marcy Kennedy   If I took a survey asking writers what the most important elements of fiction were, I’d probably end up with a few consistent answers—plot, characters, dialogue, showing rather than telling. We might not automatically think of including internal dialogue on the list, but we should. Internal dialogue is the heartbeat of fiction. […]