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September 10, 2015
Agents: Finding an Agent
At long last, I’m going to move beyond talking about finding an agent and actually do it. That’s why I’m posting here. Committing publically will help keep me honest, and let’s be real. Finding an agent will be every bit as difficult as finding a publisher. First things first, I’m going to pick three agents […]
September 9, 2015
Free Joseph Campbell Lectures: Myth and Mankind
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ve probably read something about Joseph Campbell. Campbell studied mythology and religion. In his work, he looked for common elements between the myths and stories that people have told for hundreds of years. Writers need to know about Campbell and his work because the […]
September 8, 2015
Criticism: Inner Critic Meet Inner Introvert
Recently I read a hard-hitting quote from the model, Iman. “It’s not the outside world, it’s your interior life, that critic within you that you have to silence. Find something to like about yourself and hold on to that. It’s a constant battle whether you are 16 or 5o.” I’ve heard a lot of creative […]
September 7, 2015
Fairy Tales: Fracture them to come up with something new
I have yet to successfully write and sell a fractured fairy tale but Tara Lazar has inspired me to revisit a Billy Goats Gruff retelling. Lazar is the author of Little Red Gliding Hood due out in October. In this spin off of the well known fairy tale, Red is an ice skater. There are many ways […]
September 6, 2015
Creative Energy
If you read my blog regularly, you’ve already read about my joyous encounter with FOX news. Needless to say, my creative energies have been a tad low. How ironic that this is my topic for Labor Day. I don’t really have time for burn out because I have three projects I can’t entirely ignore. I’ve […]
September 3, 2015
Inspiration: Writing Ideas
Inspiration comes from just about everywhere. Recently, I came up with a book idea while reading another author’s book, Pandora’s Mirror by Marella Sands. Normally, when inspiration strikes, I run with it. The way it works is something like this. I’ll be reading a book and something in the story grabs my attention. It might be a […]
September 2, 2015
Research: Source accuracy and checking your facts
One of the things that’s been much on my mind lately is source accuracy. A friend of mine once told me that her father, a lawyer, told her that whenever the media wrote about one of his cases, they were only 50% accurate. She thought that was an exageration before my recent experience with FOX […]
September 1, 2015
What Editors and Agents Want
Recently, I read a post by agent Scott Eagan on why some agents and editors are reluctant to tell writers what they want. At conferences, they give vague answers about voice and character. They do this because they don’t want 100 conference participants to go home and write a contemporary YA or steampunk simply because […]
August 31, 2015
Text book vs Educational book
One of the things that came up in the Black Lives Matter furor (read yesterday’s post) was what is a text book? FOX claimed that Duchess and I wrote a text book to indoctrinate 6th graders. Paul Abdo, our publisher, calmly explained that Abdo doesn’t publish text books. They publish educational books. So what’s the diff? […]
August 30, 2015
FOX News: Black Lives Matter and how to deal with bad reviews
This past week has been interesting. I mean interesting in that midwestern sense — I don’t want to say anything mean so I’ll just say “interesting.” It started last Sunday when a message popped up on my Facebook author page. I don’t remember the exact working but apparently I am racist and “he” is right about […]
