Good Morning and Happy Monday. I'm so excited and looking forward to a great week. I believe I sold another book this weekend! I can't give out the details until all the T's are crossed and the i's are dotted--but stay tuned. It's killing me not to give out the details because this one is [...]
Good Morning and Happy Monday. I'm so excited and looking forward to a great week. I believe I sold another book this weekend! I can't give out the details until all the T's are crossed and the i's are dotted--but stay tuned. It's killing me not to give out the details because this one is [...]
Here is an excellent resource on writing point of view, Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View. I would highly recommend it to any and all writers. Point of View is one of those areas that a writer can really stumble--badly. From a reader's perspective, it's doubtful that anyone ever notices how an author [...]
I'm at the Houston Writers' Guild conference this weekend. Nicole Flockton, one of the talented Crimson authors will present today and I look forward to her presentation. It has also been a great opportunity to socialize with agents, editors, and publishers. I've met some really wonderful and talented people. While here, I ran a weekend [...]
At the San Francisco Writer's Conference this weekend, I attended a session called "Meet the Fiction Agents". It had a panel that included Kimberley Cameron, Liz Kracht, Jill Marsal, Taylor Martindale, Laurie McLean, Michael Neff, Rayhane Sanders, Ken Sherman, Nephele Tempest, Becky Vinter, and Gordon Warnock. These Agent gave information on what they were looking [...]
Today I'm back to Texas after a fast paced few days at the San Francisco Writer's Conference. It was a wonderful experience and very informative. One of the sessions I attended was presented by Constance Hall (I will link to her information in a moment). The session was titled "Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: How to [...]
This weekend I'm attending the San Francisco Writer's Conference. Why? Well, it's SAN FRANCISCO, one of the most romantic cities in the country and it started on VALENTINE"S DAY. My brain said take the hubby, go to the conference and have a romantic weekend for two. Unfortunately, the daughter ended up with a sporting event [...]
Adding conflict in your manuscript is the key ingredient to keeping readers involved. No matter what genre you write, this is critical. Sometimes, though, you get stuck and just don't know what to do next. So, just for grins I've thrown together a list of suggestions. These aren't necessarily geared toward any specific genre and [...]
I've been in front of the laptop for a couple days tweaking and editing my current manuscript. I've done all the scenes I planned to do and really fleshed out my bad guy, hero, and heroine. These are the big three in my writing. I really love books that get into the head of the bad guy or [...]
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