Developmental editor, Tiffany Yates Martin, offers seven clear steps for navigating editorial feedback and revising your story.

by Tiffany Yates Martin I’ve been thinking a lot lately about mental states—especially for writers.  I don’t just mean in the current divisive, angry atmosphere that seems to have taken over so much of our world events, politics, even snarky neighbor exchanges on NextDoor—although that’s certainly corrosive and omnipresent enough. But life often offers a […]

Super-editor, Tiffany Yates-Martin shares strategies for getting "un-stuck" when your writing stalls.

by Tiffany Yates Martin Author Liz Fenton—half of the writing team, with Lisa Steinke, behind bestselling novels like The Good Widow—recently told me about her fitness regimen at Orange Theory. “I hate working out!” she said. She dreads it every time she goes, and doesn’t enjoy it while she’s there. “But I love the way my shoulders […]

Tiffany Yates Martin   I had a blog post all queued up for this week, but I’m on a plane back from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ annual Colorado Gold conference and can’t stop thinking about the weekend and what it made me realize about this business—and the authors who are the soul of it. […]