OK, my last clue was too hard and we have no winners. Yesterday I said it’s something Mark trained for in the military and also through local and federal law enforcement. Let’s try something like the clues for a crossword puzzle. There are 3 words in the clue: Continue reading
I’m building up to a big announcement on the 4th of July, and I thought the first clue was going to be somewhat difficult, but we have a winner. I said the place was named for “The Cats” in Spanish, and Delores Warner guessed Los Gatos, CA. Congratulations, Delores! There are other places named Los Gatos, so to have gotten the right state was Continue reading
I’ve been very busy the last couple days. I’m working on a surprise announcement, but you’ll have to wait till the 4th of July. I’ll give a clue every day till then, and you can feel free to e-mail me your guess.
My last two posts have been notes from Lisa Nowak’s talk at the SCBWI. I took some of my own notes from her talk too. A spare tidbit for you writers is that you don’t have to stick with one way of publishing. You can self-publish and get picked up by a traditional publisher, as Christopher Paolini did. (He wrote the Inheritance series; a fantasy 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:
Neil Gaiman gave his words of wisdom to the University of the Arts class of 2012. The words are relevant to anyone doing creative work, and so I share them here with you. (Just click on Neil’s name above.) The vimeo is 19:55 minutes long, but well worth the Continue reading
My husband, Mark, returned from his last run as a long haul trucker on Monday. I chose to become a freelance proofreader/copy editor so that I could be free to be with him in whatever the future holds. We have a phone interview tomorrow morning with an organization where we’d be traveling around the country together. We have also been Continue reading
At last, the long awaited logo is here! It will take up permanent residence on my Home page, but for those of you who have been waiting to see it, here it is in all its glory! Thanks, Jared!