Chuck Sambuchino GIVEAWAY: In two weeks time, Chuck will pick three random commenters from this post to win his book, 2016 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market. Simply comment to win. Good luck! I love talking to debut authors. They’ve just been through the difficult process of getting a first book published, and are oftentimes full of knowledge concerning […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine into Gold My writing gratitude list, today: Wow. I am so full of gratitude this morning it’s hard to stop at three. That was not always the case. Eighteen years ago, after my first husband’s suicide, I made many trips to the bookstore, seeking the advice I needed to patch my […]

The good news is I survived eight days of hiking in Yosemite. The better news is I got great pictures of a setting for some important scenes in my WIP. The best news is that I had a wide range of deeply emotional experiences that will help me write with a deeper understanding of what my […]

Aimie K. Runyan When I began writing, my children were very young—4 months and 2 years respectively. Each day at 2 PM, I would tuck them in for their naps and I had three to four hours of uninterrupted writing time. I luxuriated in it, and looking back, I’m glad I did. I would pour […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine Into Gold “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in 1877, in the memorable and beloved opening to Anna Karenina. But lately I’ve been wondering if perhaps the opposite isn’t true—that people are happy for all sorts of reasons, but unhappy […]