USA Today bestselling author Dan Alatorre has 50+ titles published in more than 120 countries and over a dozen languages.
Don’t forget to enter my Word Weaver Writing Contest! Win valuable prizes! Winning stories featured here! First 25 entries critiqued by ME! Enter NOW! Click HERE! Okay, now our regularly scheduled post… Each week we’ll take five, maybe ten, of YOUR writerly questions and set about answering them for you. When this post appears, get […]
I just found out school starts even earlier this year than last year. August 10th. August 10th! That’s practically still July! Part of me is happy because a semblance of a routine will be restored to our house, and part of me is… well, kinda sad. I hated the end of summer when I […]
OMG! Thanks so much for your extremely detailed critique. It is so valuable and I’ll definitely be going over it (several times, I’d say) to add in all those emotional flavors you so rightly suggest. Thank you again for all the kind words that came through along with the suggestions. – HH 2. Great […]
Don’t forget we have a writing contest going on… How can we forget? You tell us every day! Yeah, well… We are already tracking to have more entries for the July contest than we did for the April contest, and some of our prior champions are returning, so you better bring your A Game! Don’t […]
I’m gonna start doing a series of 3 MINUTE VIDEOS discussing writer topics you guys struggle with – and explaining my solutions to common writerly problems. Dialogue, pacing, marketing – you name it, we’ll attack it here. Together. To launch the series, I did a longer than 3 minute interview with my friend Lucy Brazier, […]
I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation. . You really do. Hunt it down and wrestle it, don’t wait for it. Life is full of distractions and next thing you know it’s three years and you’re […]
Each week we’ll take five, maybe ten, of YOUR writerly questions and set about answering them for you. When this post appears, get your questions in QUICKLY via the “comments” section below. Simple enough, right? Ask Dan ANYTHING Well, maybe. See, a lot of you don’t know what you don’t know, and some of you […]
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I was very honoured to be the first guest on my chum Dan Alatorre‘s new show, Writer Rants, to talk about PorterGirl books First Lady Of The Keys and The Vanishing Lord. Here are some edited highlights; whilst almost two hours of Daniel talking about how great I am might…
This book is a blast! When I read First Lady of the Keys, the first book in Lucy Brazier’s PorterGirl series, I was really impressed with how good the story was. It had humor and action and lots and lots of mystery and suspense. It was fast paced… It was about as well done as […]
One of my favorite quotes about my country is from someone from another country – one of the greatest Brits of all time, Winston Churchill. But first a commercial about the most awesome writing contest you’ll see this year. Probably. Prizes, Fame, Glory – and a critique of your work by ME. What more could […]
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