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How to Prioritize Your Writing

Am I the only one who has noticed this? With things opening back up, I am finding it more and more difficult to prioritize my writing. It isn’t just family things that are getting in the way. Writing related things are as well. Last year, when everyone was in lockdown or social distancing, we discovered … Continue reading How to Prioritize Your Writing →

3 Ways Subplots Function In Your Story

If you’ve ever drafted, or attempted to draft a novel, you know how tricky it can be to weave together a cohesive plot that rises and falls in all the right places and doesn’t feel contrived. For a novel with natural flow, something that feels realistic and lifelike, you may need to introduce a subplot. … Continue reading 3 Ways Subplots Function In Your Story →

Wooftastic Books interviews Sue Edwards …

Originally posted on WoofTasticBooks:
Kids love facts. They especially love it when they know something an adult in their life doesn’t know. Tell us a bit about yourself and your books … I am a nonfiction author who writes for the school library market.? This means that the majority of my books are series titles…

Rewriting, Revising, and Polishing

The first draft of my cozy has been waiting and waiting and . . . yawn . . . waiting for me to get back to it. But I haven’t felt compelled. Fortunately, I’m in a mystery writer’s group with several other accomplished writers. Or perhaps I should said several other writers who are all … Continue reading Rewriting, Revising, and Polishing →

PBPitch June 2021

I’m not sure how PBPitch (Picture Book Pitch) managed to sneek up on me. I thought had seen something about a Twitter event in mid-June but when I checked the various lists . . . nada. Then yesterday I saw an announcement. PBPitch is today. Fortunately, I have three picture books polished and ready to … Continue reading PBPitch June 2021 →

Restrictive Legislation: Beyond Banned Books

As you know if you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, I have an issue with book banning. For those of you who don’t know the ins and outs of the term, book banning is not telling your child that they cannot read a book. Right or wrong, that’s parenting. Book banning … Continue reading Restrictive Legislation: Beyond Banned Books →

Blog Tour for Hugh Fritz’s Public Display of Aggression

I’m excited to get to participate in the blog tour for Hugh Fritz’s Public Display of Aggression. My post won’t appear until June 23rd, but you can pop over to the Muffin to see the opening post, an interview with the author. Be sure to enter the Rafflecopter drawing for a copy! You can see … Continue reading Blog Tour for Hugh Fritz’s Public Display of Aggression →

Taking Classes

Online classes pose a problem for me. There are so many and I want to take them all. They are my way to recharge. Or, at least, they used to be. I’ve dropped the last two that I enrolled in. They just weren’t fun! The first is a foreign language class. Daily lessons. Trick questions. … Continue reading Taking Classes →

4 Ways to Get Your Manuscript Through the Door

I hate that feeling. You know the one. You’ve finished multiple drafts of your manuscript. You’ve written the query. Everything is posh, polished and ready to go. So you pull up the agency/publisher’s website. And they are closed. You feel like a door has slammed in your face. Fortunately there are ways to get your … Continue reading 4 Ways to Get Your Manuscript Through the Door →

3 Tips on Conducting an Interview

Yesterday, I spend the better part of the day writing interview questions. That’s one of my jobs as a blogger at The Muffin, the WOW! Women on Writing blog. I interview writers who have placed in flash fiction contests. I’m also interviewing Sioux Roslawski. Her book, Greenwood Gone: Henry’s Story, is going to be featured … Continue reading 3 Tips on Conducting an Interview →