Terry Spaeth, Midwest Regional Editor of Grand Magazine sent this call for submissions: Grand Magazine, an online ezine with a primary demographic of people that are grandparents, is soliciting articles
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a writer in possession of an unpublished manuscript, must be in want of an agent.” – Victoria Strauss I’ve gotten a few questions
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” ~ Cicero [106 B.C. to 43 B.C.] I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions since
“I believe more in the scissors than I doin the pencil.” – Truman Capote National Novel Writing Month 2008 (NaNoWriMo) ended November 30 leaving me with 66,103 words of a
“Normal people can produce extraordinary things by simply refusing to leave a blank page blank.” – Chris Baty, creator of NaNoWriMo.org Ah! November is finally upon us and I’ve thrown
A few weeks ago Nikki, a fellow Goddard student and blogger at More Purple Houses, tagged me to tell you six random things about me and then tag some other
“I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.” – Moliere, from The Ridiculous Precieuses My quest to fall in love with a new book
“Blank pages inspire me with terror.” – Margaret Atwood After listening to me whine, a friend decided to give me a copy of Seven Steps on the Writer’s Path: The
Speed dating. That’s the best way I can describe the Writers’ League of Texas Agents and Editors Conference I attended in late June. Three hundred writers vied for the attention
“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” – Elmore Leonard I’ve been in bed for nine days. Hopefully, I’m on the mend, but I don’t have the
