DAN ALATORRE

What goes on inside the writerly mind? Let’s sit down with Word Weaver Writing Contest 2nd place winner Anne Clare and find out.   Anne Clare lives with her husband in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where she spends her time chasing her three children, reading, writing, teaching, serving as a church organist and choir director, […]

It is my pleasure to present to you the second place winner from the March 2018 Word Weaver Writing Contest, Anne Clare’s “Dark Corners.” Anne Clare’s story was a blast to read. She hooked me from the opening and held me straight through to the end. Obviously, it was a fave of the celebrity judges, […]

What goes on inside the writerly mind? Let’s sit down with Word Weaver Writing Contest Winner Geoff Le Pard and find out. Geoff Le Pard started writing to entertain in 2006, and he hasn’t left his keyboard since. When he’s not churning out novels, he writes some maudlin self-indulgent poetry, short fiction and blogs at […]

  Time to step up your game! April 28, these brilliant ladies and I will be giving you the goods, directly, on what to do to improve your writing. Florida peeps: It’s a short hop over to the hotel! You can learn cool stuff and then buy me a drink afterwards. We’ll talk about how […]

… will be announced tomorrow. Just making sure everyone knows. Hope you didn’t think this was the announcement. It’s not. Didn’t mean to fool you. Probably. See you tomorrow.

We writer types aren’t always sure readers know what we’re talking about. As a result, we can explain things when we don’t need to. Check out this partial scene: “Alright, but you have to promise.” Lori held out her pinky. She was making him pinky-swear. Something they had done as kids. “I promise.” Jaxton held out […]

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Jenny sent me her scores! That means I can tally the votes. Saturday. Because I’m slammed today and tomorrow. I’m in the middle of publishing 18 books in the next week or so, and it’s a bit hectic. (It’s part of my deal with Great Oak Publishing Florida and the Young Authors Club I do […]

In the original contest announcement, it says winners will be announced “on or around April 20,” but I’m not sure why I did that because I always announce the winners on Sunday morning. Maybe I should learn to read a calendar. And even though I might know who the winners are by Friday, I might […]