For my fourth week mentoring in the Afghan Women's Writing Project, I'm giving my writers a prompt for a personal essay or short story. I've found that it can …
Publishing Tips
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published #14: Very Superstitious, Writing's on the Wall…
Seven months till publication of The Four Ms. Bradwells! Seven months. Not seven years. No broken mirrors or bad luck here. No need for Stevie Wonder songs. So …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published #12: The Importance of Kind Words … and Book Giveaway Thanks for Same!
Yes, you're in the right place for the 1st Books Book Giveaway! Read on! [But Please Note: The Contest is Now Closed and the winner have been drawn and …
Submissions Tips
I've been updating the WRITERS PAGE on my website, and came across a few new links I think would be particularly helpful to anyone submitting novels or short …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 11: We Need Permission! And a Latin Expert!
In Part 6 of this "All-True" series, I blogged about Beth Pearson and her amazing team who, among other things, flagged every place in The Four Ms. Bradwells …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 10: The Dreaded Author Photo
To be honest, I'm not sure why I'm not skipping right over this author photo bit and moving on to The Four Ms. Bradwells showing up on Amazon. I. Hate. Photos. …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 9: Titles and DESCRIPTIONS and Author Photos – Oh My! (the "Description" part)
One funny thing about writing a book is how hard it is to reduce 300+ pages of prose to a one- or two-paragraph description. So the good news is that when your …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 8: TITLES and Descriptions and Author Photos – Oh My!
The working title for The Four Ms. Bradwells was "The Ms. Bradwells," which comes from an 1873 Supreme Court case, Bradwell v. Illinois, in which nine white …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 7: It's a … Well, Not a Book, Exactly, but an ARC. Or an ARE?
I've just arrive home from ten days in Berlin and Prague to find a box of advanced reader copies of The Four Ms. Bradwells on my doorstep! Woo hoo!!! For those …
The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 6: It Starts to Look Like a Book!!! (a.k.a. in Praise of Beth Pearson)
My tweet for May 15 reads "Page proofs for THE FOUR MS. BRADWELLS just arrived! Woo hooo! It looks like a book!" Which is all the work of others, whose praise …
