By Lesley L. Smith There’s a stereotype of the writer hammering away on her typewriter late into the night in a cold lonely garret in Paris. Okay, nowadays, she’s stereotypically hammering on her computer keyboard. Maybe she’s wearing those gloves with the fingertips missing. Maybe she’s drinking bourbon or scotch or rye. In pretty much…
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Is It Worth It?
By Lisa Brown Roberts Last fall, I participated on the RMFW First Sale Panel. We had a great time talking about our books, and taking questions from the audience. One question has stuck with me ever since. Someone asked, “Is it worth it?” Essentially, all the blood, sweat, and tears getting to this point of…
Enough with the resolutions. It’s time for a revolution.
By Terri Benson I’ve been reading blogs and articles, seeing TV advertisements, and generally being inundated by the need for New Year’s resolutions. Lose weight. Go back to school. Start a new job. Everyone must strive to be better. Because clearly, I’m not as good as I should be, according to “them.” Well, I’ve had…
Writing a reader-friendly historical romance
by Janet Lane For thou with me while iuel shall I not dread… My first inspiration to write fiction involved a thought that flashed through my mind when entering rather boring sales data into date fields. I inadvertently entered something like 1798 instead of 1998, and a “What if?” idea flashed above my head, just…
Running a Kickstarter – Is it for everyone?
By Guest Contributor Mason J. Torall The Internet, in all the craziness that it’s added to our world today, has done some amazing things. Chief among them is definitely the power to network with damn near anyone around the globe. The whole world has been opened to us in the past two decades, and I…