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…
My Inner Editor
When I sat down at the start of November last year and decided that this year, finally, I was going to well and truly finish a novel (I have several novels in various states of unfinished heaped on my hard…
Two Mini Book Reviews
I was pondering what book to review this week and realized that I haven't been reading much that has just screamed, "Hey, review me!" They've been good, but what I've managed to type up has been similar to a 3rd…