by Karen Duvall It’s been very busy in our household lately and our pets sense a change is coming. My husband and I will be leaving for our much-anticipated trip to Colorado next week and of course our fur babies don’t want us to go. To top it off, my husband just had minor hernia…
Category: General Interest
Getting Physical: Ways to Make Your Characters Come Alive
By Lori DeBoer Whether you write genre or literary fiction, you must be able to bring your characters to life. When characters are first conceived, they invariably seem a little wooden, too recognizable as constructs of the author’s imagination. The people that populate your stories need room to grow; they do so by going out…
Interview with Agent Pam van Hylckama Vlieg
By Jeffe Kennedy Since the Colorado Gold Conference is coming up, pitching and querying seem to be on people’s minds. So I thought I’d interview my agent, Pam van Hylckama Vlieg. You’ve been an agent now for about two years, right? First with Larsen-Pomada and now with the new agency you helped form, Foreword Lit….
Talk to the Paw: Fighting Tooth and Claw
By Karen Duvall Kinsey was very sad when I told her we didn’t have a guest for her this week. She’s super friendly and loves meeting other dogs even though she likes people better. I told her she might have someone new to talk to next week. If there are any writer’s pets out there…
Are You Serious?
By Trai Cartwright Part Two of a Six-Part Monthly Series Am I misguided or perhaps a tad, a bit, a dollop delusional, or are the forces behind the world of storytelling building like a Gangnam-style viral video? Have you felt it too? I’m convinced this groundswell of creativity has been coming on for the last…