Memoirs--sometimes they feel to us writers like we're talking to ourselves, not seeing the forest for the trees. But isn't that wha...

I finished a big freelance editing project today so I treated myself to a bowl of popcorn, a movie, and a good read: the altogether quirky M...

Today in my class at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Westchester Co., NY,we talked about moving from a writer-centric viewpoint to ...

I just got the big packet every writer waits for--edited pages of my soon-to-be released novel, Qualities of Light. My super-duper editor, K...

Adele Annesi, author of Writing Lynx, a wonderful resource for writing sites, wrote me: "Of the many writing-related blogs, [yours] is ...

Island life is great. I'm at the Coffee Plantation in Key West, Florida, relaxing in 80-degree island breezes, enjoying a day off after...

A good book proposal is like handing an agent a perfect rosebud. It smells wonderful, it hints of much more. It's meant to entice, stimu...

Join me in beautiful, sunny Key West, Florida, for a fun and productive weekend building your book, and take it the next step toward success...

On Monday, my weekly book-writing class talked about the desperation that writers get: the need for perspective about their books. Where are...

I was thrilled to have a visit on my blog from a writing mentor, Ken Atchity, who authored A Writer's Time, one of the textbooks used in...