Choosing a Setting
Today I randomly stumbled across FindYourSpot.com (it really was a random stumble - I was reading one thing that led me to another and so on and so forth -- really, isn't that what makes the Internet grand?) It intrigued…
Book Review: Heartbroken
Heartbroken by Lisa Unger is another fantastic novel by the author. I like her books - I will say here that if you've read something by her and disliked it, then you should just move along. Even had I not…
Editing via Kindle
I mentioned that I was doing a read through of my manuscript (gosh that sounds pretentious to me, I need to figure out what to call the thing. I guess WIP is better, though whenever I think WIP, I think…
Out of the Blue it Feels Real
I finished the rewrite of my novel's ending on Friday. I'm still in the midst of getting suggestions and edits from my critique partner, but with the new ending, I wanted to take a minute and read through the whole…
Book Review: Pandora’s Grave
I'm a sucker for a good spy thriller. I blame my dad, honestly, who used to toss his Len Deighton novels my way when he was finished. (I'm probably one of very few people my age who had read the…
Can You Be a Writer and a Reader?
There's been another fascinating discussion on the ACFW main loop (if you're writing Christian fiction and you've not joined ACFW, you might find it's worth your while. I'm finding it quite useful.) I guess in this case it's not so…
Two Questions From My WIP
So as I'm working through edits on Wisdom to Know (you can read the blurb under Books if you're so inclined), I've gotten two comments from my Critique Partner that left me scratching my head. So...am I the weird one,…
Bonus Book Review: Finding Our Way Home
In Finding Our Way Home by Charlene Baumbich we meet Sasha Davis, an injured ballerina, and Evelyn, a somewhat clumsy engaged-to-a-bad-boy nineteen year old who takes the job of Sasha's assistant. Though the snow globe is not prominent on the…
“Drive”, he said.*
There's a rather long (and it seems to be a teeny bit heated in some cases, honestly) discussion on the ACFW main loop right now about the use of tags in dialog. (Tags, for those not up on their writing…
On Being Social
Oh social media...how I have really mixed feelings about you. One of the things that new writers continuously hear is how you have to market yourself and get plugged in via social media. There's Facebook: Do I have an author…