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Yes, you can
The other day, Jessica came home from school with exciting news. “Someone is going to win a prize for their essay!” she told me, beyond thrilled. I looked at her big smile, her shining brown eyes, and I knew exactly what she was thinking. Someone was going to win a prize, and it might even…
How to: Finding good guidance
The other day, I was putting together a resource list on how to write book proposals, and came across a promoter who sells all kinds of information on how to write book proposals – but as far as I can tell has never sold a book to a traditional publisher. A blogger recently suggested…
Things that make me smile
The other day, I went to tuck my daughter in bed (she’s still young enough that she needs to be tucked) and discovered that she had taken a copy of my romance in with her and was trying her very best to read it. Since it’s a short, sweet contemporary, I wasn’t worried that the content was…
On what I learned from writing a romance
I wrote my first romance novel on a dare. I’d been a nonfiction book author and magazine writer for a number of years, and I was working on a mystery of the hard-boiled private eye type. A colleague suggested that the reason the relationship between my protagonist and her love interest wasn’t working was that,…
On how I get so much done
This summer, Jessica decided that she did not want to go to day camp as she has in previous years and so we agreed to give her staying home a try. We had some intense negotiation first (Me: “You will have to be patient while I work.” Jess: “You can bring me to the coffee…
On getting things done
After yesterday’s post about my many and varied personas, I had the usual run of “I wish I could get as much done as you do!” comments. I am never quite sure how I should respond to these. The “I wish I could” is invariably followed by “but.” But I have a day job, but…
