Boxes

When I got the book deal for the Two Dogs in a Trench Coat series from Scholastic, I knew I wanted to take care in setting up the first book, so I could use it as a formula for all future books in the series. Formulas aren’t bad, you know. Formulas only become a...

New Video: Hunting for Wild Ideas

One of the most frequent questions authors get is “where do you find ideas?” It’s an understandable question. People want to know the secret. Where can they find ideas that are worthy of making into books? Surely there must be a special process. Or...

Revisions: my current interminable process

You know how sometimes you hear an author say, “Oh, I worked on this book for ten years.” And you read the book and it’s marvelous and so you laugh and the author laughs and everyone is happy. But no one interviews the author in the middle of that...

Procrastination, and scaring the words away

Oh boy, have I ever been procrastinating. See this sparkly new website design? That was a massive procrastination task. There’s my desk. I moved it from a much smaller space, and got a faster computer after the old one completely stopped working. All of those...

New year, new newsletter

I have moved my newsletter to Mailchimp! It was easy. I moved because my old mailing list support company conglomerate (I’m sure that’s the official title) twice deleted my entire mailing list and all my saved templates and emails. Which stunk. And stinks....