Last April, I entered the gates of Santa Monica High School in California – along with 20,000 teenagers, librarians, teachers, and parents – for YALLWEST, the young adult book festival. The main reason I attended for the second year in a row was because the event featured my favorite author, Rainbow Rowell. She wrote Fangirl, …Read More
Sweeten it up like you’re sending them a love package from their favorite bookish bae … by Jes Dory
Jes Dory’s thoughts on capturing and holding a Book Blogger’s attention. Hello my bookish friends! Here’s what I’ve recently learned when it comes to capturing and holding a Book Blogger’s attention. Believe it or not these days capturing the attention of a Book Blogger can be just as challenging as capturing the attention of a …Read More
It Takes a Team … by Nancy L. Reed
I never want to be solely responsible for all elements of the writing-to-publication process. Selfishly, I want to concentrate on my writing and leave the rest to folks who understand how to package my words and make them available to readers. Admittedly, I’d like to attain some modicum of success as a published author, but …Read More
Your Writing Journey Through Oz … by Rich Keller
Patricia, an infinite amount of thanks for allowing me to step onto the yellow brick road known as your blog. I have to apologize for all the apologies I’ve written in this space over the last few years. The blackmail, the threats … I’ve turned over a new leaf with this very post. By the …Read More
Using Haiku to Kick-start Your Fiction Writing … by Dean K. Miller
As writers, we get stuck. Plain. Simple. In the mud. Stuck. Words cease to flow from our brains to our fingertips. Whether we prefer a keyboard, pencil, or pen, the mojo dams up like the Colorado River behind Hoover Dam. There is no clicking of keys, scratching of head, or ink smears on your hand. …Read More
A June Lineup of Guest Authors from Northern Colorado
I will be featuring posts from nine Northern Colorado authors during the month of June. Their interests and works range from poetry to nonfiction to fiction. Tomorrow my guest is Dean K. Miller, haiku writer extraordinaire. He also writes other types of poetry, inspirational articles, and more. I never considered writing haiku until Dean offered …Read More
About Sleuthing Women — 10 First-in-Series Mysteries … by Lois Winston
Once upon a time I was published by what I thought would be my forever publisher. I was thrilled by the way they treated me and with their commitment to promoting my books. Then things changed—and not in a good way—and I made the decision to walk away, taking the rights to my books with …Read More
Writing to Publish … by Trai Cartwright
Between us writers, do you write to publish? For those who do, I’m jealous. You seem to have connected with the fundamental reason why we write: to tell others things, important things, playful things, things that entertain and challenge and change us. You’re an Author. And if you don’t write to publish, why not? Is …Read More
Learning e-format Publication … by Rex Burns
One of the most pervasive beliefs in American publishers has been that readers will not be interested in humorous novels or in novels about Latin America. So I wrote The Better Part of Valour, a comic novel set in Columbia. Again and again, American publishers turned it down; in fact, few if any of them …Read More
CRIME & CRIMINALITY: The Amateur Sleuth in Regency England … by Darcie Wilde
Ah! The English Regency. The romance! The dances! The genteel manners, the snobbery, and the witty banter! And, oh! Those clothes! It’s a lush, intricate and magnificent setting for almost any kind of story. For a crime writer, though, it’s got some interesting pitfalls, and sneaky advantages, especially when you’re writing a mystery with an …Read More
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