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...
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...
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...
Do you like my clickbaity blog post title? Sure! Why not! If it works for all those weird links at the bottom of perfectly reasonable listicles of the food they ate on Friends, why won’t it work for me? ANYWAY. I’ve been dealing with a lot of writer doubt...
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...
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....
