Galleys for Amazon Ink arrived yesterday; corrections are due back to Pocket by Monday--which means I'm busy groaning and dreading. :) I posted a tongue in cheek note about this on Facebook and a number of people replied with congrats. Got me thinking maybe people...
Frequently when I'm designing a bookmark or other promotional material I find myself in the position of trying to match a font to a book cover. People who have not taken graphic arts classes tend to think this is a simple task--trust me, it's not. I took a class in...
As a writer I think we "know" a lot of things, and probably do many instinctively (automatically following story structure because we have read so much, etc.), but that is different from really "getting" something. For some reason, I recently had an epiphany about...
Has to be editing. I don't mean revising where you figure out what is wrong and how to fix it--that can be fun. No, I mean taking someone else's comments--frequently just noting repeated words, or missed commas--and trolling through your manuscript to fix them....
Have you all read or seen The Devil Wears Prada? I just finished the movie last night--well kind of, the disc was cracked and stopped RIGHT at the end (but that's another story). Anyway, how great was Miranda? I mean really--did you love her or hate her or both?...
I am in the process of reading Scene and Structure by Jack Bickham. I really recommend it, if you haven't read it yet. It takes a lot of information from Swain's book and makes them much easier (at least for me) to digest. Anyway, Bickham talks a lot about the story...
In case you aren't familiar with these two series, Charmed is the story of three sister witches who fight demons, date (sometimes the demons they wind up fighting), and in general look way better in crop tops than any of us could ever dream of. Hex is a new series on...
I don't know if you have noticed, but I have added "the last 5 books I read" and "currently reading" to my sidebar. Little hint, if something shows in currently reading and then doesn't make it into "the last 5 books I read" it means it isn't something I recommend....
First Hi! I've been at the Wisconsin RWA annual conference. I was the chair this year. Yahoo! It is over. It was a great conference, but it is such a relief to have it behind me. Waves to anyone who was there. :) Today I was reading the new issue of Writer's Digest...
