But first let me remind you that you have until the end of today to leave a comment on my Wednesday Bits and Pieces blog post for a chance to win an advance copy of the Harlequin Worldwide paperback edition of The Desert Hedge Murders. Midnight tonight, U.S. Mountain Time, is the deadline. ——————– And …Read More
Archives for August 2010
Chat Amongst Yourselves Until I Return…
I’m out of the office today. Please feel free to hang out here and chat amongst yourselves until I get back. There’s plenty of Lindt’s 85% dark chocolate in the top shelf of my bookcase. For your entertainment and inspiration, I’m posting this link to The Miami Herald‘s reprint of Dave Barry’s 2008 column where …Read More
Lessons Learned… by J. E. Taylor, Guest Blogger
Today I’d like to welcome J. E. Taylor to the Thursday “My Writing Life” series. Jane’s experience with nontraditional publishers will be helpful to those still trying to decide whether to hold out for that agent/publisher deal or go it alone. ——————– Lessons Learned. . . Hi all! My name is Jane E. Taylor and …Read More
Wednesday Bits and Pieces
A Post on Twitter at The Blood-Red Pencil I’m at The Blood Red-Pencil today, showing how writers and bloggers can squeeze lots of information into, and maximize the reach of, a 140-character tweet on Twitter. Come on over if you can use a Twitter tip or two. Books to Win at Medeia Sharif blog YA …Read More
Local Blog Catapults Jake to Stardom
Maybe I’m obsessing about this “should a writer blog?” question, but it’s the fault of Cat Woods and her Words From the Woods post of August 6th: On a Blogroll: Do you have what it takes? She has a little quiz that has proved very interesting, since I totally flunked. So I keep wondering, should …Read More
Book-in-a-Week Online Community
I’d never heard of BIW until last week when I learned that two online friends had participated in this community set up for writers to state their writing goals and report daily on their progress. I can imagine it’s a powerful aid to developing a writing discipline, a great incentive to set up monthly writing …Read More
Excused Absence
I’m working on my book this weekend. I’m going to point you toward a couple of excellent blog posts by blogger friends: Cat Woods at Words From the Woods: On a BlogRoll: do you have what it takes? I answered all of Cat’s questions and reached the conclusion I should never have started a blog. …Read More
Killer First Sentences
You all know how much I love to talk about first sentences. I’m at it again, mostly because I’ve made the first pass through my WIP to change the point of view in about eight chapters, and now I’m doing the fine tuning on the first chapter. This is the deep, deep revision where I …Read More
How I Traded Needlepoint for Writing by Terry Odell, Guest Blogger
I’m pleased to introduce Terry Odell as my guest today. Many of you are already followers of her excellent blog at Terry’s Place. I first “met” Terry on an online authors group for one of our publishers. And we have something else in common — we both retired from Florida to Colorado. Now I have …Read More
Just Bits, No Pieces
First of all, let me remind everyone that tomorrow is guest blogger day, and guess who’s stopping by… Let me give you a hint–the schedule is over there in my sidebar. Yep, Terry Odell is going to tell you how she happened to become a writer. As you’d expect, Terry took one of those less-traveled …Read More