First, we have a few announcements:#1 Our blog has been nominated for the Top Writing Blog Award by ECollegeFinder. UPDATE: Votes are open again through February 3rd.#2 Ruth’s thriller HOOKED which she wrote with her husband Michael Harris, has been zooming up the charts this month. It’s in the Kindle top 100, and made it to #3 on Movers and Shakers!#3 Treeware lovers: Anne’s first Camilla Randall mystery THE BEST REVENGE is now available in paper ($9.95.) You can buy it at Popcorn Press or Amazon .#4 NOOK Owners: Anne’s other two Camilla...
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Sunday, 22 January 2012
They say we all have a book inside us—our own life story. The urge to put that story on paper is the most common reason people start writing. Adult education programs and senior centers everywhere offer courses in “writing your own life.” Memoir is the most popular genre at any writers conference.Unfortunately, it’s the hardest to write well—and the least likely to be published.Agent Kristin Nelson once blogged that she’s seen so many bad memoirs...
Sunday, 15 January 2012
FIRST: AN ANNOUNCEMENT: The book I’ve been writing with Catherine Ryan Hyde, HOW TO BE A WRITER IN THE E-AGE—and keep your E-sanity! will be published by Mark Williams international in June of 2012. The book will be available as an ebook that will include free six-month updates. AND it will also be available in paper in both a US and UK edition.We’ve had some interest from more traditional publishers,...
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Some nice news: This blog has been nominated for the Top Writing Blogs Award by ECollegeFinder.org !If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to start sending that masterpiece out into the marketplace, you’re going to run into words like “hook,” “logline,” and “pitch.” The terms come from the film industry, but they’re becoming standard in publishing as well.So what do they mean? Are they just sexy terms for a synopsis? Not exactly. The...
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Happy 2012! What a year it’s been. Exactly a year ago, I woke on New Year’s Day to one of those emails that used to flood my brain with a mix of adrenalin, serotonin, and hope—a burst of euphoria that somehow made my life of constant rejection bearable. It’s a high only an aspiring author knows.There it was in my inbox on New Year's morning—a positive response to a query I’d sent to an agent months before: “Your writing is delightful,...
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