I was over reading R.L. LaFevers blog post, Quirks and Foibles, and I thought it was interesting what she believes can contribute to the seeds of a writer:
“It seems to me that the best writers, the ones whose books really stay with me, are connoisseurs of human nature. Being proficient at craft, or excelling at [...]

After a late night of wrestling with the beast known as my novel, I didn’t even realize the sad news until this morning.
Patrick Swayze has passed on.
Dirty Dancing is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. I still remembering seeing him in The Outsiders and Red Dawn and so when I saw DD, [...]

Today I’m hosting author Paula Chase Hyman on her Del Rio Bay Blog tour.

Paula Chase Hyman, writing as Paula Chase, is the author of the Del Rio Bay series, which includes So Not The Drama, Don’t Get It Twisted, That’s What’s Up!, Who You Wit’? and Flipping The Script.
Her series helped launch Kensington Books [...]

I was reading the wonderful blog, A Chair, A Fireplace and A Tea Cozy and found this link to an essay by Mary Pearson. She’s the author of the sci-fi YA novel, The Adoration of Jenna Fox. A book that I read last year and really enjoyed.
Her essay, What YA Lit Is and Isn’t, talks [...]

Last night, I started to look at my draft and the revision(s) ahead of me. I so want this novel to be done. After throwing away two different versions and hundreds of pages, I want to just be able to be done with it.
But if I’m honest with myself, just like I knew those two [...]