Top Dogs: Writing that Shaped Me as a Writer–“Once More to Reavis” Part 2
This week, I am writing about my own writing and how it has changed me. Check out Part I where I explain how I thought my…
Filling the Creative Well: Finding Inspiration–Part 3
Photo courtesy of Stephen West and West Design This week I’ve been talking about my own creative inspiration via knitwear designers and filling the creative well.…
Filling the Creative Well: Finding Inspiration–Part 2
Image courtesy of Kieran Foley and Knit/Lab Designs This week, I’ve been talking about filling the creative well as a writer and my own source of…
Filling the Creative Well: Finding Inspiration–Part 1
As I’m always telling my students, as writers we need to keep filling the creative well within us. Filling that well is different for everyone. I…
Why I Hired an Editor–Part 3
Image courtesy of digitalart and digitalphotos.net At the beginning of the week, I wrote about how I met editor Chris Roerden (see Why I Hired an…
Why I Hired an Editor–Part 2
Earlier this week, I explained how I met editor Chris Roerden, and how I felt when she told me what was wrong with my mystery manuscript…
Why I Hired an Editor–Part 1
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Depending on what day it is, I will give you a different answer. If you ask me on Monday…
Guest Blogger John Gurney: Setting a Scene…Without Being There—Part 1
Vacation! Writing a novel is a great excuse for travel. “Honey, we need to check out the beaches of Fiji for my book’s frolicking sex scene!”…
The Murderee Du Jour: When Characters Take Over
One bright spot in last week’s writing disaster (The Grass is Always Greener Part 1 and Part 2) was that I felt drawn to a new…
Guest Blogger: Deb Gaskill
A dear friend Heather Hutchins has asked me, to talk about my self-designed promotional tour for my latest book, LETHAL LITTLE LIES . One of the…
