Editing Advice

I am on a very, very tight deadline, which of course explains why I’m procrastinating here on my blog. As I do this edit, I think I will add to this post all the things I’m learning. Free advice for you! What I have learned so far: 1. If your editor...

Life Advice – I need your help!

I know…I know…I have not been a good blogger. I have not updated Need To Read much because I’ve read a bunch of stuff that I either wasn’t that enthusiastic about or was adult fiction that I didn’t really feel like blogging about. I have...

Good advice is worth its weight in gold!

After I signed with my brilliant agent, I sent him a long letter (yeah, it could probably have been cut by 30%) telling him all the things I would do as a writer to make his job easier and to help sell books – like publicity stuff, and meeting deadlines, and...

Thank Goodness I Learned to Type

When I started college, I was a theatre major. My grandmother kept telling me to take classes like accounting and typing (yes, this was way back when everyone used typewriters and computers were still in the future). I was not about to take anything so that I could...

Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway

I know I haven’t posted here much, but I’ve been reading some adult fiction and also the couple of YAs I’ve tried just did not work for me. However, I am HAPPY to say that Audrey, Wait! is fantastic. I first heard about it on Meg Cabot’s blog,...