Today is the first working day in California when I’ve been unemployed as a Workamper. Mark has this week left to work and then we have a couple weeks to get packed up and head to Oregon for several weeks. So I’ve spent today doing research for my editing business and working on my web site. Continue reading
Please welcome Susan Hornbach, an author/writer of children’s literature. I met Susan on LinkedIn and she seemed to have some good advice for writers who want to publish, so I asked her to write a guest blog for my web site. She did so in the form of an interview: Continue reading
Way back in the beginning when I was first writing this blog, I was editing a book for a first-time writer, Delores Warner. I have asked her to keep me posted on her progress since I finished with her, and she recently told me her book is being published. I asked her if she would write a guest blog about the process she’s been through, and she has. Here is Delores’ post: Continue reading
We have 12 days before we leave, so things are a little mad around here, but I came across something last night I thought I’d talk about briefly. As I have become familiar with web comics recently, I keep seeing the word “Woah!” It has Continue reading
My posts may be rather sporadic during the month of July as we get ready to move. We had a garage sale last weekend, but didn’t sell as much as we’d hoped to, so we’re going to have another garage sale this weekend. We’re still looking for homes for our cats. We’re sorting through what to put in storage and what to get rid of and what will fit in our Continue reading
The Northwest Association of Book Publishers recently had Shanelle R. Boyd, an attorney, come and talk about copyright. I have had clients ask me questions about copyright, so I contacted Ms. Boyd and asked her if I could share her notes on my web site. She Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about the talk Lisa Nowak gave at the SCBWI picnic on June 23rd. Today I’m going to share the resources she shared. All of them come from a list she put together, and other than any typos on my part (of which there are hopefully none!), she is responsible for the content:
Yesterday I attended my first SCBWI event; an indoor picnic! There was time at the beginning and the end for networking, but most of the meeting was a talk given by Lisa Nowak. She is an author who is self-publishing a series of books about boys and stock cars. Her whole talk was a comparison of different publishing methods. She gave the Continue reading
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”Ralph Waldo Emerson“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time(or the tools) to write.” Stephen King
If you are inclined to write for 6th-8th graders, you’ll want to read some of the best of what’s out there now. Here are my top 12 picks:
Yesterday I finished up with the book I’ve been editing for Delores Warner. She’s written a memoir about the 18 months she spent taking care of her husband, Vern, after he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). It’s her first book, but she’s doing everything right. She has shown it to some of the people who walked through that journey with her Continue reading