I’m thrilled to share my book deal announcement (above) from Publisher’s Marketplace! Because book deal announcements don’t show the long and rocky…
Take a look at this photo. The people in it are high school students on their way to make professional presentations at a business competition.…
I first heard about Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (1992) in a writers’ workshop a few years ago. It…
I woke up this morning knowing I am a loser. November is over, and with it, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Every November, people all…
In August I spent two weeks in the UK with my friend Jennifer, mainly doing research at the British Library in London and attending the…
It’s been a crazy busy summer so far, and it shows no signs of letting up. As exciting as it’s been to buy a new…
I freely admit to being a control freak. I’m not proud of this, and it certainly makes life difficult in some ways, but there are…
Not long ago I faced an unusual task: shifting my novel’s time period from 1897 to 1907. I won’t go into all the reasons for…
My blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been immersed in a major revision of my latest novel. When I start a major revision I…
Inspired by a blog post written by my agent, Laura Crockett, I decided to put together a top five list of my own. On average,…