THE PITCH

Pitching your novel to an editor or agent causes many writers anxiety. Here are a few tips that will hopefully squelch that!Remember: No matter how much an editor loves your book, s/he can’t buy what s/he can’t sell. So when you pitch…1. Know what you’re selling...

Writing a Book’s Like Eating a Bear

Writing  is never easy.  It’s author’s sweat and skill and effort that makes it appear easy. Actually, it’s a lot like eating a bear.  You can do it, yes, but it’ll try you on every level unless you eat the rascal one bite at a time.I hesitate...

Are You a Candle or a Mirror?

Warning:  this is a no-edit zone…On awakening, like everyone else, I have my rituals. One of them is to read from the Bible and then to pull a quote for the day and reflect on how the two–the reading and the quote–interrelate. The quote for today...

Baffled! What Does He Mean?

I received a note with the subject line: HELP! I’M BAFFLED. WHAT DOES HE MEAN? Now who can resist stopping to read a note referenced like that? So I did–stop, that is–and read the note. It was from an author who had received a rejection from an agent. In...

BIRTHDAY WISH–AND HOPES

Birthdays are special days–and at times in our lives when we’ve thought we wouldn’t have any or many more of them, we learn a new appreciation for them. Actually, it’s a new appreciation for life itself, but the day is the perfect day to acknowledge and...
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