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Years ago, when I first started writing with an eye toward publication, common wisdom held that we were supposed to write short stories and sell them to genre magazines, as a foot in the door. This was back in the days of SASEs and waiting weeks to hear if a story had found a home….
There’s a place I see in my dreams. It’s a flat meadow with several tributaries trickling off a small creek behind a stack of boulders at the back of the open space. A few wildflowers grow in the grassy spots, but nothing thorny or dangerous. It’s deep enough in the woods to be away from…
Once upon a time, I was searching for career representation, and breathlessly submitted my rollicking pirate adventure, Mad Kestrel, to a literary agent recommended by another writer friend. After a couple of weeks, the agent responded, saying that she couldn’t wrap her head around a pirate as a main character, because pirates were essentially bad…
When I first started writing with an eye toward publication, I made a mistake that many, many new writers make – I thought every motion my characters made needed to be spelled out. Every turn, every nod, every blink. My characters shrugged so often that I’m surprised none of them needed a massage to loosen…
It’s my turn to write something brilliant and inspiring, and all that’s in my head is an idea that occurred to me while watching Fright Night (the original) for the millionth time. I have a novella to finish and three novels in process and two anthology invitations and one editing project half-completed and another to…