Oh the Things You’ll Learn

We write. We’re good. We know it. We FEEL it in our work, the emotion, the beauty. Others feel it too. Mom, cousin Amy, that-guy-you-met-on-the-internet-Mike, Colleen at work. They say it made them laugh out loud, cry, want to tell all their friends about our books....

Because I Said So: When the Hero Comes Home

At least that’s the default answer when my kids ask me “why?” So, yeah, that really doesn’t have anything to do with this post. This is a plug for a book. Yep. When the Hero Comes Home. But it’s not just because it’s co-edited by my...

I Love This and You’re Very Smart BUT…

This is horrid and what you’ve done here is stupid. Or something like that. Otherwise known as getting revisions back from your editor. I love getting stuff from my editor. Really, I do. I can weather the crushing depression and the ego-killing “ummmm,...

How I Found My Publisher

OK, this is a bit long… I Squeeeee’d about it yesterday but now I want to tell you the whole story and maybe you’ll find it interesting or even learn something from it you can take with you on your journey to publication. I “finished” Fighting Gravity in the...