Last time I imparted some advice I'd gleaned from literary agents and publishing editors from several writers' conferences I've attended over the last couple of years. Today we're going to go over some common writing mistakes that you will want to fi...
Thanks to several writers conferences where I had the fortune and pleasure to meet literary agents and publishing house editors, I gleaned some helpful advice for how authors can determine if they are truly ready to move forward with their book baby:...
Vampire romances have been a favorite of mine since Bram Stoker's Dracula. My only "meh" read was (no hate mail please) the Twilight series. Edward Cullen is my least favorite vamp. Sorry. Not Sorry. But the series kicked off a hurricane of new books...
When I first starting writing romance, I generally thought of the three act structure as follows:Act 1 - Boy meets girl (the meet-cute)Act 2 - Boy does something stupid to love the girl (or vice versa)Act 3 - Boy gets girl back (HEA)What I quickly le...
According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, the 411 means...Pre-Internet, there were only a few ways to find out someone's telephone number: asking the person or an acquaintance for it, looking it up in a phone book, dialing 0 to speak with an operato...
Back in the "before times" as one of my favorite social media accounts to follow (The Dadbod Veteran) says, we had this function on our phones (you know, the landline dinosaurs no one has anymore) where if we needed information (i.e., the phone numbe...
"We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life..." ~ PrinceLife sure can surprise you. And I'm no exception. I thought I was going one direction and then... WHAM! BAM! I'm on another road in the middle of nowhere, the area looks a...
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