A great way to get your writing out there, seen by readers and possibly your future agent (agents browse literary journals and magazines and...

Mindy Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator when her son Jim threatened to kill her. It was his first psychotic episode. Mindy's n...

A blog reader recently wrote me: "As I write a middle-grade mystery book on pet detectives, I have changed some character names three...

First-time authors who love epics, such as Tolkien or the Outlander or Game of Thrones series, often ask me about word count for their manus...

Lila came to my remote "learn to storyboard your book" class to work on her novel. Recently, she emailed me, wondering if storybo...

Several clients have emailed me lately, asking how to deal with the flood of emotions that comes with writing memoir. "Memories bring b...

Voices are only a small part of human communication. We read emotions via gestures, eye movement, and facial expressions, as well. In book...

I love writing dialogue. I've taken classes on how to craft it, where to put it to break up and add rhythm to a scene. I see dialogue-...

In their book, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Renni Browne and Dave King tell the story of interviewing different editors in the publishi...

A client in California emailed me a few weeks ago about film she watched that helped her write emotions more vividly into her memoir. ...