Here’s the gist–Dan is a writer and Vanessa makes films. Dan and Vanessa used to be best friends. Now Dan and Vanessa are dating. In last...

I am working on a new novel and wanted to find out about the current market for my book proposal. My book could be classified as an ...

In junior high (aka middle school to some) I did a project on Ray Bradbury and ended up reading all of his short stories that we had in...

#1: Practice, practice, practice Tip #1 is fairly obvious. You don’t make it to the olympics without practicing your skills, and the same...

Writer and Blogger Shelli posted a great blog post this week with some lessons on handling rejection from American Idol. #links #tipsfromtv

So last time I talked about finding sources. This time I’ll talk about how I incorporated the research into my novel. Here is kind of how...

My twitter followers will have seen this link already to writing rules from famous authors, but I just can’t help sharing some of my...

Last time I talked about how I came to write a historical fiction novel and how I chose a time period. Next, I’ll talk a bit about how I...

My second novel, Necklace of Tears, started off with an idea: a girl, stranded in the middle of the ocean. How did she get there? Where...

After racking my brain for blog ideas this week, I’ve decided to answer a question that I get asked all the time by fellow writers as...

Hooray! I successfully figured out how to completely screw up my manuscript! I hit command-k thinking it would bring up keywords on...

(yes, it’s been a while since i sat down to work on this project) I implemented some of the suggestions posted by someone at Scrivener to...