DAN ALATORRE

  You finally worked up the nerve to ask a real, live bookstore to have you sign books at an event! Okay, you emailed them. But they replied and now you have a signing event! Woo hoo! Uh oh… A real live event.With people. Or worse, maybe with NO people. I can hear your heart […]

You can tell me. I’m good with secrets. 

This week’s writing challenge looks kinda hard, so a LOT of you are not gonna wanna do it, but you’re ALL gonna wanna hear about the SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. First, the writing challenge. Hey, no pain, no gain. Here is a road rage scene from the movie Marathon Man. Watch it… Okay, NOW what I want you […]

Don’t forget: BIG announcement tomorrow!! Be sure to check back! (Are you excited to see what it is? I am.) 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. It really is, isn’t it? Putting your stuff out […]

Can’t wait to tell you. You’re gonna be excited. But we hafta wait ’til Friday.   You can last two days.   But   If you want, you can guess.

  This is just a sample of the positive feedback Poggibonsi: An Italian Misadventure is receiving. Not ALL the feedback is positive, but most of it is – and I’m grateful for all of it. You need honest, candid input from your beta readers!   A typo here, a misplaced word there – stuff we need […]

Which is worse: to have a mosquito wake you by buzzing in your ear, which is totally annoying… or to stay asleep for another 30 minutes and wake up with like 5 mosquito bites???   I don’t know. This really happened, as you might guess.

I always get stuck when it come to a title for my latest story. Don’t you? Not any more! Create a book title: color of your underwear, food you ate last, and the city you visited on your last vacation: The (blank) (blank) of (blank). Substitute socks or pants for underwear if you’re shy; no […]

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. I really believe we bring our life experiences to our work, and we should do more of it. I do it, as some of you have seen, but not […]

A brilliant post by friend of the blog Evie Gaughan. TONS of stuff you need to know. I’m just glad to see somebody else out there is as wordy as I am. Click HERE for all the good stuff, but I’ll start it off… Remember when you first started writing your book and your overriding […]