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I’m Going to My First Writer’s Conference!
This weekend is the SCWBI Winter Conference in New York City. I will be there. I will try […]
The Pain and Joy of Revisions
Life is one revision after another. We crawl, we walk, we run, and sometimes if we are lucky, we fly. […]
Book Review: Dig Too Deep by Amy Allgeyer
I recently had the pleasure of reading Amy Allgeyer’s debut Young Adult Novel Dig Too Deep and I loved it […]
Happy New Year and Welcome to the Year of the Sweet 16s!
Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but January 1st is always my tabula rasa, my opportunity to start […]
Merry Christmas!
“Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in […]
My favourite books of 2015!
Well I can’t resist! I’ve been reading so many wonderful year-end book lists that I thought I would add […]
Books with wonderful Christmas Scenes in them and one very poignant Chanukah scene…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about gratitude, in which I mentioned how the Christmas scene […]
Review – Fenway and Hattie by Victoria J. Coe
Happy Wednesday! Today I have the great treat of giving you an advanced sneak peek of a wonderful new […]
Gratitude
Given that tomorrow is American Thanksgiving, and that I forgot to write a special post for Canadian Thanksgiving, this seems as […]
The comfort of books
The recent events in Paris remind that, as much as we can take comfort in one another, we can often […]
A Post about Plunging Into Your Writing
I am currently in the process of “doing” NaNoWriMo, revising a Young Adult Novel, and thinking about starting revisions to […]
Are you NaNoWriMo’ing this year?
National November Writing Month is my new favourite time of year. For thirty days each November, writers from around […]
Best New Web Site for Writers!
Hi everyone! Sorry I have been missing in action. Took a trip and then returned to revisions, revisions, revisions, and […]
How do you choose what you read?
I am always interested in why people are reading what they read. Are you choosing because of buzz? The New […]
Are you the voracious reader?
One of the great joys I have now that I am a writer is that reading is part of my […]
Does everyone know everyone on twitter but me?
I’m new to the twitter game. I’m new to the writing game, if truth be told. But now that I […]
Revisions
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” ― William Faulkner Some writers hate revisions. Some love them. I think […]
What makes a page-turner?
I have been thinking about this topic a lot lately, since my work-in-progress is not yet a page turner […]
Feedback from your Beta Readers
Early on in my writing process, I was scared to show anyone anything. There is so much blood, sweat, and […]