I love to read, but occasionally I get on a genre tear and I am like a reading tornado, chewing up everything in my path as fast as I can.…

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Without fail, all of the “How To Be a Better Writer” books agree on one thing – if you want to write well, read a lot of good books. I…

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My resolution is always the same – write more. Last year, In order to create a more “writer-friendly” environment, I moved my office out of the dank, dark basement and…

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My friend, Alison Hertz, has published her first picture book! I say “first” because she has 172 ideas floating around her brain at any given time, and writes prolifically. In…

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Man, you sit down to watch one episode of the new Dallas, and the next thing you know, months have passed and you haven’t blogged once! I blame J.R.  In…

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Thanks so much to everyone who played Grammar Nazi with Lisa today. Come on over anytime, there’s plenty more where that came from! The book, however, goes to the FIRST…

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Well, it’s official, my book is OUT ON SUBMISSION. As in submitted, to a real editor at a real publishing house! My agent, the wonderful and talented Susan Hawk, sent…

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The hotly anticipated YA novel Shatter Me, by Tahereh Mafi, hit the shelves on Tuesday and because I’m sick of being the last one to read anything, I bought it.…

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