Today’s guest blog is written by Christopher Valen, author of the award-winning John Santana mystery series. The sixth novel in the series, The Darkness Hunter, will be released in September 2015. Christopher hails from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. …
Today’s post is written by author L.D. Bergsgaard, who currently lives in sunny Arizona, but for many years braved the Minnesota winters. Larry is a retired Special Agent with unique experiences adding a rare dimension to the crime story genre. …
Today’s guest blog comes from award-winning author Duke Southard. After retiring as a public school educator, Duke directed his energies to writing and has published three novels, one memoir, and a commissioned nonfiction history. He currently is working on a …
By Kathryne Squilla
I recently listened to a great segment on NPR’s Morning Edition in which the author Mallory Ortberg discussed her new book, TEXTS FROM JANE EYRE. In the book, Ortberg, a humorist who often turns her satirizing eye …
These days we authors should be loving libraries, and if not loving them, at least courting them. Not merely because libraries have shelves that hold our books and services that loan out our ebooks. We should love libraries because many …
Today’s guest blogger, H. Alan Day has spent more time riding a horse than writing on a laptop. Yet, he co-authored the New York Times bestseller, Lazy B, with his sister Sandra Day O’Connor, and this year published an …
By Kathryne Squilla
For the past year, I’ve been watching a dear friend of mine write her second YA novel. She’s by no means an inexperienced writer, having published two non-fiction books and many essays. Her first YA novel is …
Today’s guest post comes from my friend Rod Miller, a Spur Award-winning poet and author, who I met this summer at the Western Writers of America conference in Sacramento, CA. In addition to writing poetry, Rod pens novels, short stories, …
The world of writing comes with a constellation of certainties. Creating. Editing. Research. Solitude. More editing. And if you’re submitting your work for publication, add the Big R to the list: Rejection.
As Isaac Asimov wrote, “Rejection slips, or form …
I’d like to thank my friend and fellow writer, Liza Wiemer for tagging me to be part of this blog tour. Liza’s had some excitement recently. Her agent, Stuart Krichevsky of Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, sold her debut YA …