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In Praise of Libraries

Today’s post is a video. Join me in celebrating National Library Card Sign Up Month. We’ve got just over a week left! Make a trip to your local library or check something out online to celebrate! –SueBE

Book Covers: Go Basic or Jazz It Up

Look what has arrived! I now have my author copies for PLUTO AND THE DWARF PLANETS. Since I just saw the cover design for THE MOON, it is interesting to see how two different publishers approach similar topics. BrightPoint is the publisher for PLUTO AND THE DWARF PLANETS. Honestly, I feel like my dad designed … Continue reading Book Covers: Go Basic or Jazz It Up →

Write Till Christmas: Picking a Project

Are you looking for a fun supportive writing program to wrap up the year? Check out Write Till Christmas. My writing friend Kelly Sgroi started this program two years ago. She needed something to help her finish a draft by the end of the year. Like many of us, she found NaNoWriMo unmanageable. For me, … Continue reading Write Till Christmas: Picking a Project →

Mystery Tropes

I just finished reading A STUDY IN SCARLET, the first Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mysteries sure have changed in almost 150 years. After Holmes snaps the handcuffs on the suspect, we get several chapters that seem to be another story altogether. It turns out that it was the backstory on why the … Continue reading Mystery Tropes →

My Newest Covers

I’ve been checking Amazon for my new covers. Apparently I should be checking Barnes and Noble. I have to admit that my first thought was “that’s a lot of pink!” But I had to laugh a bit when I saw the cover for The Moon. Somehow I suspect the art director told the designer to … Continue reading My Newest Covers →

Singing While You Work

Normally, I am one of THOSE writers. I want things to be nice and quiet while I work. Shh. I’m worse than the ghost librarian in Ghost Busters. I had completely forgotten how much fun it is to do layout. At several points I was singing rather robustly to the soundtrack of Guardians of the … Continue reading Singing While You Work →

Don’t Wait to Write

So many people tell me that they will write when they have time. Can I make a suggestion? Don’t wait. Find time now. I say this because my mom was my age when she died. I’m sure that there were things she and my father wanted to do but didn’t get around to. She was … Continue reading Don’t Wait to Write →

What to Do After You Meet a Deadline?

I remember when I was a new writer, unpublished, and I thought I would have these amazing rituals to celebrate sales and meeting deadlines.  Hey!  Back off!  I majored in anthropology.  We spent a lot of time discussing rituals. In my mind, I knew that I would celebrate like this . . . I’d go … Continue reading What to Do After You Meet a Deadline? →

Fiction Based on Fact: Ron’s Big Mission

I think we’ve all experienced this. We read about something and think, this would make a great picture book. But then as we dive into it, we realize that no, no it won’t. Not if we try to write a nonfiction picture book anyway. Ron’s Big Mission is a fictional story based on a childhood … Continue reading Fiction Based on Fact: Ron’s Big Mission →

The Importance of Setting

Not sure what happened to yesterday’s post. There it is checked off my to-do list. And all that posted yesterday was a title and a link. Go figure. The post that you may have briefly seen a link to was this one from Janice Hardy on fixes for blah scenes. The problem that I want … Continue reading The Importance of Setting →