“YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY?!” For me, dialogue makes or breaks a book. Cliche dialogue typically indicates cliche characters. What do you...

Poet Vogue Robinson, author of Vogue 3:16 On Sunday I had the pleasure of doing a 30-min. reading of Winter Light and a Q&A session with...

I’ll be teaching three writing workshops in March and April. In anticipation of so many of your stories pouring fourth as a result, and...

Register now for my workshop! Though only 75 minutes long, I plan to pack in simple, yet effective process for developing characters your...

Winter Light, a novel, now available on preorder If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you’ve seen this novel’s progress toward...

by Byddi Lee Author Byddi Lee has created a dystopian tale in which she’s nailed all three facets of great science fiction: a flawed, yet...

by Katie Lewis Often books and conferences for writers focus on the big parts of stories, such as plot, characters, pace, dialogue, etc....

After reading Carolyn R. Russell’s dystopian young adult novel, In the Fullness of Time (due out March 17, see previous post), I got to...

I was happy to receive an advance copy of this book. I was even happier to truly appreciate the author’s restraint when it comes to...

by Melanie Faith I grew up in Chicago and about once every winter would wake up to a mountain of snow outside my window and more falling...

To develop a plan for launching my upcoming literary book, Winter Light, which will be published Oct. 6 by Vine Leaves Press, I’m taking...

A lot of people I talk to want to build a regular writing habit, but don’t know how. Here’s my process, which works for undertaking...