Who doesn't have fond memories of childhood summers? Sure, you may remember that time you got a blistering sunburn, but I bet you had fun getting it.  I'm coming down to the last edits for my debut book. And I'm digging deep to make my characters memorable. I've discovered myself thinking a lot about the […]

Susan Donovan Do you think I’m sexy? Well? Do you? This is not some rhetorical Rod Stewart question. I’m totally serious. Do you think I’m sexy? Perhaps not. So let’s move on to the next question. Do you think I’m funny? See where I’m going with this? The truth is, “funny” is a lot like […]

Jamie Raintree Chances are, if you've spent any amount of time around other writers, you've heard of National Novel Writing Month, an online writing event that attracts hundreds of thousands of writers from all over the world each year. The event takes place in November and each participant pledges to write 50,000 words of new […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine Into Gold Our society as a whole, and publishing as a subculture, rewards action and achievement. The Holy Grail seems to be a book a year, and you can’t pull that off while sitting on your hands. Yet I would maintain there are at least four times in your writing career […]

Cathy Lamb I recently started golfing.My husband (nicknamed “Innocent Husband”  because the poor man can never be held responsible for what his wife says or writes), made me. He has been hoping I would golf with him for over two decades. I have resisted. Even thinking about trying to put a tiny white ball into […]