By Laura Drake We’ve talked about it in other posts. How learning your writing process is finding your way in a pitch black room, full of furniture. You can learn by banging your shins, but there are less painful ways. Hopefully, this post will help. I’m an organized person, and it would make me crazy […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine into Gold The waiting was over. My agent called last Tuesday with word about my submission for novel number three: my publisher had passed. (Read paragraph break as needed time for truth of this to sink in.) We strategized. Then my agent said, “Okay Kathryn, well, I’d better go get a […]

Ellen Meister Churlish. Mean. Difficult. Insensitive. When I first got the idea to introduce the acid-tongued Dorothy Parker to social media, I had no idea I would soon be using those adjectives to describe Facebook. It started in early 2011. I was working on a new novel that resurrected the great 1920s literary wit as […]

Susan Spann As a publishing lawyer, I often get asked about copyright in scenes and settings, and how the law of infringement applies when stories are set in similar locations. Like many other copyright questions, the answer depends on a number of factors. However, unlike many legal questions, the guidelines are straightforward and fairly easy […]

Holly Robinson I'm in a semi-comatose state after crashing through the first draft of a novel in six months to meet my editor's deadline. Not that I'm complaining. I've been struggling to get to this point in my career for over twenty-five years. After earning a degree in biology, I started writing fiction and went […]