One of the best decisions I made for my recent books was hiring a professional editor--before I began submitting the manuscript for pub...

One of my online students is working on a memoir that threads two storyboards (see more about storyboards here ).  He wants to be able to...

One of my private clients has been working on her memoir for quite a few years.  She's workshopped it through my online classes and w...

It used to be common to sell nonfiction books via a book proposal--an expanded outline, a synopsis, marketing research for the topic, a...

It's been a month of book birth announcements.  Another student from my online classes and private coaching has just released her ...

I spent much of yesterday at the Apple Store, which often starts out as fun but ends up being exhausting.   A friend 's laptop had a...

I first met Elisa Korenne in one of my online classes.  Elisa is a professional singer/songwriter with several CDs to her credit. ...

I get this question a lot:  When a book has more than one storyline, timeline, or main narrator, how do you make sure each storyline wor...

One of the writers in my advanced online class posted this article on our weekly classroom discussion.  She asked the provocative qu...

I got some of the best writing advice this week:  In a good story, things are never as they appear.  At first, I debated this advice:  ...