Writing Tips: Handling Rejection
As a writer, you’re going to be submitting a lot of material to a lot of publishers and agents. It could be weeks, months, maybe even years before you get your written work accepted, which...(Keep Reading)
Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
1. Write more. Find the time to invest in your writing. There is a myth of creativity that you need the perfect time and space to create perfect words. But you write about real life, so find time in...(Keep Reading)
Writing Tip: Nouns and Verbs Are Your Friends
The wearily handsome, nervous, stubble-chinned man slowly and carefully got out of bed when he heard the soft, mysterious sound of footsteps in his apartment. OR The ex-con bolted up, rubbed his...(Keep Reading)
Be Trendy! Start a Book Club
Book Clubs are Trendy! Thanks to Oprah and her cult like following, book clubs and reading groups are all the rage. And why not? For those who love to read, what could be more fun than discovering a...(Keep Reading)
Book Review: The Parlor House Daughter by Joanne Sundell
Nevada City in the 1880′s was fast, rough and dangerous, particularly if you were a prostitute. Class of prostitute figured greatly into the comfort, treatment and survival potential of a...(Keep Reading)
Book Review: Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is the first book I read in the Dark Hunter series and it got me hooked. Julian of Macedon has been cursed and imprisoned into a book for all eternity by a jealous Greek god. He can only be...(Keep Reading)
Holocaust Memoir Book Gets the Axe and Other Tidbits
Angel at the Fence Gets the Boot Publication of Angel at the Fence by Herman Rosenblat has been canceled by it’s publisher Berkeley Books. This memoir has has been in the news quite a bit...(Keep Reading)
7 Steps to Developing Real People Who Bring your Fiction to Life – Part Four
Part Four: Getting Down to Work If you’ve read the first three articles in this series (part one, part two, part three), you know that the time investment in fiction character development pays...(Keep Reading)
7 Steps to Developing Real People Who Bring your Fiction to Life- Part Three
Part Three: Let Your Characters Live Character development for fiction is an essential step in the writing process and can mean the difference between a work that is welcomed by a publisher and one...(Keep Reading)
7 Steps to Developing Real People Who Bring your Fiction to Life – Part Two
Part Two: Creating the Past and Shaping the Present The quality of your characters will form the foundation you desire for a strong story. In this four-part series, we’re looking at ways to...(Keep Reading)
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