I'm taking a break from first page critiques this month, because something is bugging me and I have to get it out. Continue to send your pages, though, I'll be back next month with a crit!   I traveled to speak at a writer's group last weekend (I do that, you know. Contact me if […]

Sarah Cy According to the old adage, "practice makes perfect." For a writer, reading and writing is practice. So the more you do it, the better a writer you should be, right? In reality, reading and writing every day does not a great writer make. Not if "reading and writing every day" means browsing news […]

Colleen M. Story As part of one of my recent freelance projects, I read an interesting survey about how women and men differ when it comes to setting and achieving goals. You can read the full report at Leadership IQ. For this post, I’m zeroing in on one result that sort of surprised me. The […]

Amy Impellizzeri Before I was a novelist, I was a corporate litigator for 13+ years. When I left corporate law in 2009, I didn’t leave to write novels. I left for what was supposed to be a one-year sabbatical intended to treat a bad case of professional burnout. With three small children under the age […]

Tina Ann Forkner There is a lot of buzz around town about a new business that recently opened in my community. From what I hear, it’s already booming just a few weeks in. This new business is a cocktail lounge, and while I’m not familiar with what it takes to open a lounge, I couldn’t […]