The Creative Spark Revisited

It’s Martin Luther King Day—a national holiday here in the States—and many of you have the day off. Me, I’m playing catch-up with a pile of work correspondence. So while I do, I’m going to leave you with this interesting essay from writer April Line. When she...

Are You Ready for Publication?

Oh, kids, it’s two days ’til Christmas and I’m trying to meet a work deadline. Not to mention the holiday deadline. So while I keep editing, my friend Christa Allan’s going to take over. This post originally ran on her own blog, and I’m so pleased to republish it...

Follow Your Own Weirdness

Don’t you just love that “I’ll be away from my office” thing? It’s true. I’m out of my office today. When that happens, my friends cover the blogging bases for me. This one’s from Christa Allan. It originally ran on her own blog, and I’m so pleased to republish it...

Read Anything Good Lately?

Natalie Knaub has—and while I’m getting ready to go to a writers’ conference, I’m going to let her tell you about The Scorpio Races, in a post she also ran on her own blog.* Review: The Scorpio Races (YA) There are books you read and think, That was pretty good. Then...