Redfeather sighted at Book Expo America 2014!
For those discerning readers who are looking for Redfeather, the elusive book was sighted at this year's BEA, thanks to Foreword Reviews, a well-regarded book review journal that offers a [...]
Literary agents: How to fall in love.
Agents, how many times this week have you written these words, "Sorry, I just didn't fall in love with it" ? How many blog posts have you titled Five [...]
Margaret Skea on writing the second book of a series
I met Margaret Skea at the 2012 Historical Novel Society Conference in London and have been following her debut historical novel, Turn of the Tide, with great interest. She's giving [...]
The night Editor-in-Chief Myrna Blyth taught me to pitch…
Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman. That was the slogan of Ladies Home Journal, iconic women’s magazine which after 131 years has published its last regular monthly edition. In [...]
Writing on a Ranch in the Rockies; Antidotes to Isolation
Mary Kurtz is one of the Steamboat Writers, a group of essayists, fiction writers, academics, and poets who have been meeting weekly for more than twenty years to share their [...]
Anna Belfrage talks of time travel and other writing secrets
How We Write. Today's guest post on How We Write is by novelist Anna Belfrage, who lives in Sweden. Anna and I have connected on Facebook -- and quite possibly in [...]
Writers — why not take the scenic route?
Turning my novel, Looking for Redfeather, into a stage play has been an interesting challenge -- and fun. I had to look at the story as a series of distinct [...]
Interior dialogue: What is your character really thinking?
Having just adapted one of my novels to a stage play, I'm acutely aware of how important a character's unspoken thoughts and feelings are to the story. In a play [...]
Character Motivation; Love-Driven Rage in the Bronze Age
Fiction writers: What motivates your protagonist? Hand of Fire tells the tale of Briseis, the captive woman Achilles and Agamemnon fought over in the Iliad. When Achilles, the half-immortal Greek [...]
Land’s End
Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii, my private writer's retreat. Water covers about three-quarters of our planet's surface. Most of us find ourselves drawn to the seashore, if not [...]