My friend Kelly Abell sheds some light on the advantages book clubs offer to new writers. I love Book Clubs and Reader’s Groups! Last week, I was having a conversation with another author and the subject of Book Clubs came up. He asked what I thought the advantages were to being connected with a book club, and […]
I know some of you feel this way. Don’t worry, you’ll get there. Baby steps.
We’ll be working on a blurb for The Navigators soon, and I thought I’d get in some practice. Figured you could use some, too. Practice? For a blurb? Yeah. See, just like we had to learn to steer clear of adverbs (per Stephen King, “The road to Hell is paved with adverbs” – […]
I have a gift for all you wonderful moms. Use the Contact Me button to contact me and I’ll send you an ARC of Savvy Stories, my hilarious and heartwarming collection of stories about parenthood. Yes, it’s mostly about a dad and a little girl, but so what. If you had kids, you’ve been there. […]
Some say writing is a calling. What do you think? Why do you write?
Well, somehow when I went in to thank KatieComeBack for suggesting Word Weaver for the name of my writing contest, I DELETED THE WHOLE POST. Ugh. Also, some nice anonymous person suggested this as a image. Isn’t that nice? I’d thank them but I don’t know who it was, and if I go edit this […]
Okay, I did this. Somebody out there can do a better job. I was thinking of a tag line like, “$25 and bragging rights – what more could you ask for?”
Books are intimate because when you read a book, the color of the woman’s dress is whatever shade of red you imagine it, not whatever color the director picked for the movie, or the quality of lighting in the theater. When you read a book, the car chase happens as fast or as slow as […]
What genre do you enjoy reading the most?
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