I am off to beautiful Star Valley, WY for the Thanksgiving holiday. This will be my first Thanksgiving down with Bubba’s family. I am excited to see if it is as relaxing as Christmas in Star Valley (really-I grew up thinking it was normal having five different places to run to on Christmas day. Spending [...]
As promised: Tuesday’s post. On Wednesday. Jessie Sin asked: What do you think are the top five obstacles a writer faces when first getting published? Well, Jessie, not only will I answer that, but I will also go over the top five obstacles for unagented, unpublished writers and the top five obstacles for agented, but [...]
Wow. Getting ready to leave town for the holidays is really taking a toll on my time! I actually wrote almost all of my post for today…then, when I got home I realized that I can’t post something off my work computer from my home computer. Duh. So, today, we are post-less. This is what [...]
Back to questions! I promised to answer them all, so I better get to it. Today, we have three more questions from Jessie Sin. First, she asks: What have you learned from your writing? Wow. That is a big one. I have learned more from my writing than I can fit in a single blog [...]
In case you didn’t know, Harlequin Enterprises (yanno, the romance publishers) opened a vanity press this week. No. Good. Why is this bad? I could rant about it here, but I have found that when I rant about it, eyes start to glaze over. Instead, I will share a delightful picture that makes me smile [...]
I give you mylifeisaverage.com. My life is average? How about my life is awesome?! Seriously, there are some clever, witty people out there. And let’s face it-most of these come from teenagers. Each one I read makes me laugh, and then immediately remember why young adults are so great. I love writing for them! Okay, [...]
In honor of today’s question and answer, here is a fabulous video: Jessie Sin asked, What are your thoughts and opinions on ‘ghost writing’? This is a difficult question to answer, because the answer depends greatly on the circumstances behind each book. So, being the total cheater that I am, I am borrowing from another [...]
…to bring some pictures to my friends in warmer weather. I woke up Thursday to a nice layer of snow. It is very pretty, but fairly destructive. The trees around Bozeman never got time to shed their leaves, so there was a lot more surface area for the wet, heavy snow to fall on. Tree [...]
Jessie Sin has a few questions on submissions. First, she asks: What will you be looking for in an editor? Hrm…this is an interesting one, mostly because it is so far in the future I haven’t given too much thought to it. Daydreaming is fun, but I prefer to live in the present, so I [...]
I got a few questions about my process before and during first drafts, so I thought I would address them all together. We’ll start with Jessie Sin, who asks: What is your prep process before you begin a novel? (Scene-by-scene plotting, character backstories, ensuring you have a month’s supply of popcorn, etc.) If there have [...]
