Your book launch is like a ship christening, right? Pomp, circumstance. The whole bit. You invite as many people as you know, including every stranger you encounter in the weeks leading up. You bash yourself a little bit for not doing a better job of keeping your email lists tightly organized over the years. And,…
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Curing White Room Syndrome: How to Ground Your Reader
This is my second year serving as a judge for the Colorado Gold contest (which I highly recommend, for a number of reasons—but that’s a story for another blog post). After judging a dozen or so entries, I noticed I was making the same comment on almost every single manuscript: I didn’t feel grounded enough. Lack…
Writers: Learn to Love Revision
When you look at some of the writing advice out here in the great etheric wonder that is the internet, what you’ll see is a lot of the same information repeated over and over. This is because writing isn’t a science, it’s a very subjective process which looks similar to lots of different people, but…
Writing Decisions That Affect Readers and my Reader/Writer Hats…
First, this article is for Working Writers WHO WANT TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES BY WRITING. My Reader Hat: I buy books that sound good, mostly romance (all sub-genres), fantasy (most genres), some mysteries and YA. Less often I download a sample. And I rarely read something NEW when I’m far behind deadline, as I was from…
On The Road
This year I decided to try something different with the launch of my new book and attended the American Library Association’s Annual Convention held in Chicago, June 22nd to 27th. My goal this year was to try and get the word out about RED SKY to those living outside our region. When Sisters in Crime…