I can't tell you how giddy we are here at WITS.  We've been sitting on an announcement, dying to blab, but having to sit on it until today (well, okay, maybe that was just me-I stink at secrets.)   You ready?  We have a new crit partner, and full time WITS author/blogger! Orly Konig Lopez! You […]

By Laura Drake Here at WITS, we've discussed dealing with fear before - most notably, our Throwdown, which explored The Fear of Success, and The Fear of Never Succeeding. Today, I thought I'd share with you my latest goal - To Live Without Fear. Yeah, I know, it's ambitious, but you have to admit, it's […]

By Laura Drake I belong to the Women’s Fiction chapter of RWA.  We just completed a month-long Write-a-Thin (you’d have had to have been there,) and it was wonderful, on many levels (not for me, on the ‘Thin’ part, but that’s another blog altogether.) Since I’m so anal regimented in my schedule, I didn’t think […]

by Jenny Hansen You can thank my husband and his knee for this post. The wear and tear of fifteen years of football finally took its toll this last year and he hurt his knee working as IT Wonder Man at a conference in San Francisco. He came home limping and the pain got progressively worse until he […]

Writers In The Storm welcomes back award-winning author and RWA RITA-nominee, Shannon Donnelly. Last month she discussed 5 Quick Fixes To Make Readers Love Your Villains. This month's post is more philosophical. We'll be interested to hear your answer to the title question down in the comments! ******************** Money ~ by Shannon Donnelly The old joke […]