More on Querying: The Race

Last night I finished some edits, sent off a partial request, sent off a few more queries because I was feeling momentarily confident in my ...

WiP Wednesday: The Dark, Confusing Side of Query Land

Querying a novel can be terrifying. I have dipped my toes into the querying waters over the last couple weeks with my YA novel, Seagull Risi...

WQI with Author Crystal Allen

Please join me in welcoming Crystal Allen , whose middle grade novel HOW LAMAR'S BAD PRANK WON A BUBBA-SIZED TROPHY debuted last month....

Dying Dogs & Upcoming WQI

My mother-in-law cut out the following article for me from the Tri-City Herald: DOGS' RESCUE IN CHINA SHOWS GROWING ACTIVISM BEIJING -- ...

Ambition

Ambition is necessary to accomplishment. Without ambition to gain an end, nothing would be done. Without an ambition to excel others and to ...

It's Thank Krista V. Day!

I have two reasons to thank my writing buddy, Krista V . First, because she reviewed this book on her blog, which made me want to read it. I...

What's Your Favorite Holiday?

Mine is Easter. For many reasons. I love why we celebrate Easter: "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man m...

WiP Wednesday: Writing Like a NaNo

NaNoWriMo doesn't work for me because of timing. November is the middle of football season and since the dashingly handsome sidekick is ...

The Best of Times

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." ~Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities This is an amazingly versitile quo...

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

This is what I have to say about Sharon Creech's WALK TWO MOONS : The first chapter is the best first chapter I have ever read. The end...