I love it when my friends look out for me. The other day one of them pointed out an amazing documentary he was watching on YouTube. Have you ever heard of Lady Grace Hay Drummond Hay? For an hour full of the wonder of airships, the gumption of lady journalists, and a little heartbreak to…
Ah, titles. When authors get together to talk, it’s one of the subjects (like marketing and writing a synopsis) that can make us pull out our hair and offer each other wine. It seems so easy, doesn’t it? A couple of words and you’re done. If only it were that simple. Book titles have to…
Recently I posted the cover copy for The Bride Wore Constant White, which by the time it hit this blog, had already been through three rounds of revisions. Short they might be, but they’re harder to write than you’d think! Thank goodness for writer friends who can be trusted to see through my tendency to…
I’ve given up on New Year’s resolutions because I never keep them for more than a week. But my business and writing goals are a different basket of eggs–because when you make books your living, you can’t just give up when the going gets tough. Readers are waiting. The car payment is waiting. And plus,…
My writer friend Elise posted the other day about playing with her grandson—making up a script, changing it on the fly, having fun living the story without actually knowing where it was going from one minute to the next. It made me think about how we used to play when I was a kid. “Let’s play…