In today's publishing world, there are more options than ever, and honestly, navigating them has proven challenging. As I've been mulling over my next step with my current WIP (which is finished...so is it just a W now?), I've finally…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
So, you remember how I was going to try and re-write my novel, starting further along in the story? Funny thing...I played with it for several days. I tweaked here. I tweaked there. I added and subtracted and all other…
In the year 2000 (that sounds like one of those ominous sci-fi prologues, doesn't it?), when my husband and I realized that adding kids to our family was going to have to take a different route than is traditional, we…