I was over visiting and checking out the current CORA Diversity Roll Call over at the Color Online blog.
This week is covering food and memoirs so the first book to come to my mind was a memoir that I read last year.
Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love, and Spain by Lori L. Tharps was an intriguing [...]

Your protagonist realizes something about himself/herself.
Questions to ask about this scene spark:
*What is the epiphany?

*Is your protagonist happy or sad about the realization?

*What actions does your protagonist take with this realization?

Whew, it’s been 10 weeks. Seems like 10 years, LOL.
Only 3 more weeks to go in the Challenge. Although it’s August, I’m still on Act 2 scenes, which is okay. I don’t know if I’ll make my personal goal of 60K words, but since I broke the 40K barrier, I’m definitely going to make the [...]

I’m the kind of writer who must have noise in the background. Writing in absolute silence is creepy. So I must have some kind of noise—whether it’s the sound of a bookstore or a cafe or music.
I can’t listen to music with lyrics though. I find them distracting for some reason. Unless I’m revising—it doesn’t [...]

Publisher’s Weekly broke the news the Bloomsbury has decided to change the cover for Justine Larbalestier’s novel, Liar.
Based on my previous post, Judging a Book By Its Cover, it’s interesting that Bloomsbury invested money to change this book jacket and not keep the “whitewashed” cover.
I must say that I’m surprised that they chose to go [...]