4 Indie Publishing Lessons
If you want to publish the tra ditional route, make sure you have donned your armor. It is rewarding beyond what you could have imagined...
A Substitute Valentine
It's been a while but I've been working on so many other projects. Then this came my way.... Susanna Hill (susannahill.com) put up a...
Sell the Fudgy Topping
One dessert. Two pitches. A - “Our Brownie and Ice Cream dessert has three cups of flour, two eggs, a stick of butter. Then we baked it...
Phineas & Ferb Taught Me How to Write for Children
I miss Phineas & Ferb. My children are older and I don’t watch the show alone. But I could. That’s how funny and clever the writing is....
Challenging the Slush
Ah, the slush pile. What is it? A) stacked 7-Eleven drinks B) defrosted snowmen C) a collection of drunk writers D) All of the Above and...
Submit & Persist
I think writers deserve battle pay. The rejections pile up. That’s if you’re lucky. Lucky? Yeah, because sometimes you don’t hear...
Start with a BANG!
One of the toughest things in writing: a first line. Because it matters that much. It grabs the reader and keeps them engaged to read...
The Fiercesome Writer
Okay, so I made that word up. As a writer, you should not be fearsome, as in causing fear. But one should be fierce. You should be...