My plants are dying, and I think they may be reacting to my mood, though my sister says it’s lack of sunlight. But then what does my gardening, green-thumbed sister know? These are my plants after all, not some…
Whether you’re writing a literary novel or a plot-driven novel, your characters need to experience some kind of growth or change. This growth – as in real life – rarely happens all of a sudden. Try it and your…
The posts have been sparing this week. BUT I am working hard. Writing and working on some changes to my website. Oh, no. I’m not going to tell you what they are. Just know that the changes are taking…
Bria Quinlan at Luv Ya is running an amazing contest ala So You Think You Can Dance, except this contest has a writing twist. I have made it all the way to Round 5. I’d love to make it…
Certain readers have the ability to crush your ability to type another word. In the past, my sister has been that reader. This is why she didn’t get to read Touched until months after it was complete. See…
We have a new guinea pig…This week Alicia Gregoire volunteered to have eight writers beta read a single page of her urban fantasy “Phoenix Rising” so readers can…
Whatever stage you are at in your career, you will at some point fall into the vicious trap of comparing yourself to others. This person got a bigger, better deal. That person got a ton of offers. And that…
Another snip from my current WIP, Interior of a Heart, a YA literary novel about a girl treated as an outcast in her town when she keeps a secret for her boyfriend, a soldier fighting in Afghanistan. George is…
What is it? Writers aspire to describe things in ways that give readers an Aha! moment - a new phrase or word that flips our expectations and makes us go, “Yes, that’s exactly what an orange looks, tastes, feels, smells like.”…
Three big events are coming to San Francisco that authors and readers alike will want to know about.
1. The Big Book Sale (September 22-26; Fort Mason Festival Pavilion): The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library are putting on…