Progress Update and Why Aren’t You Reading YA?
I have good news and bad news – and no news. I always like to start with the bad news first, so here we go. Over the past month and a half, I’ve queried seven agents and received three rejections....
View ArticleJust Some Rambling
This is a weekend I look forward to all year. The Southern Kentucky Book Fest is this Saturday and the writer’s conference is on Friday – so you know I’ll be in my happy place both days. If you ever...
View ArticleGuest Post by Destiny Allison – Writing Related to Art
As promised, today I have a guest post from the multi-talented Destiny Allison, artist and author of Shaping Destiny and Pipe Dreams. If you haven’t visited her art website at...
View ArticleGuest Post by Calvin Dean, author of The Epitaph of Jonas Barloff and A Door...
For the month of October, in honor of Halloween and my love of horror books and movies, I’ve asked some authors/friends/fellow bloggers to write guest posts related in some way to the...
View ArticleWIPpet Wednesday
Wasn’t it just Wednesday yesterday? Despite being snowed in until Saturday, the week seems like it just disappeared. Not as productive this week with my writing, but I’m not so disappointed over that...
View ArticleWIPpet Wednesday
Wasn’t it just Wednesday yesterday? Thinking about how the past week just sped by, I tried to account for what I’d been doing – I was busy, but was I productive? Finally saw the new Avengers movie –...
View ArticleGuest Post and Giveaway: Beyond Show – Don’t Tell: Fifteen Tips To Make Your...
Today we welcome Lynn Goodwin to Books & Such as part of the WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour! Lynn is here today to share some tips about how to make your writing stand out from the crowd. Her...
View ArticleUpsizing the TBR Pile
I didn’t post anything last week and with good reason. I was at an amazing writer’s retreat hosted by C.J. Redwine, author of the Defiance Trilogy and Ravenspire Series. I reconnected with some other...
View ArticleA Quiet Place, #SneakyPete, Writing, and #Giveaway #amwriting
Something kind of new on the blog. I’ve decided Mondays are for talking about what shows/movies I’ve been watching, what’s going on with my writing, pictures of my cat – just whatever jumps to the...
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