After eighteen years of writing, submitting and garnering a plethora of rejection letters, I finally received my first publishing contract on April 20, 2005 from Loose Id. When I saw the e-mail I read it at least three times before it sunk in. Then I jumped up from my desk and danced downstairs to tell [...]
Today’s tip is to organize your bookmarks/favorites. I save things all the time and if I don’t have a folder for something, I just save it without a folder. Which means that my bookmarks are really unorganized. And there’s nothing more frustrating than wanting to visit a link but being unable to find [...]
Over the last few weeks several messages have popped up in my RSS reader (like this, and this, and this) concerning the tightening of the publishing industry. It was bound to happen. Things are tightening up all over the place.
I’m not one who likes to harp on problems. It doesn’t do anyone any good, certainly [...]
Join us the first two weeks of December for a wonderful workshop by Susan Meier.Goal Setting…Have you set a million New Year’s Resolutions that you never made happen? That might be because you haven’t really figured out the difference between what you think you want and what you really need. Join Susan Meier and discover [...]
Kathryne Kennedy will be joining us for 2 days this week to give a talk and answer questions about love scenes. As Kathryne says, let your characters write your sex scenes for you. She’ll start with some ideas about how the uniqueness of your book and characters means that your sex scenes can be just [...]