When I first started this novelist journey, I wasn’t consistent with my writing. I would go in spurts and stop literally for months at a time. I learned that for me to finish a novel and get it ready for submission, I would have to get organized.

I learned the value of making writing “to-do” lists. [...]

Last month, I posted about the current struggle I had with balancing writing with my day job.
When I came to the conclusion that my novel wouldn’t be done as soon as I had anticipated, I was disappointed but then also a little relieved. I now had realistic expectations. Even more importantly, I wouldn’t be [...]

A couple of months ago, I posted about Seth Godin’s book The Dip.

Last week, one of his blog posts really hit home for me because Godin used a novelist analogy. So I wanted to share it with you all (if you haven’t read it already):

In his post, Hope and the Magic Lottery, he made this [...]

Do you remember your first *paid* critique?

You know, the one with the agent/editor/published author? The one where you just *knew* they would be blown away by your genius and offer you a book contract on the spot?

Okay, so maybe that was just me but I do remember my first paid critique. Back in 2004, I [...]

I’m not quite sure that I can slay query letters, but I did work on one this past weekend in preparation for the 2010 SCBWI Florida Mid-Year Workshop.

I wrote a query letter for my first novel, a middle-grade ghost story. After some tweaking, I started to get requests for partials, fulls, and ultimately an agent [...]