Book Review: Cupid Missed
Patrick Blackburn’s debut novel is clearly a work of semi-autobiographical fiction. It’s impossible to say how much of it is true- is this a memoir with the n...
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Print cover!
These are the print covers I made up on CreateSpace. Like the rest of the process, it wasn’t exactly easy. I tried to just use the cover image from my publisher...
CreateSpace: It Takes a Village
To format some paper copies of my book, I needed all kinds of help. I needed to use my boyfriend’s laptop with a current version of Word. He also figured out ho...
In the publisher’s catalog!
I got the Constable & Robinson catalog in the mail! The best part is that I’m on page 43:
Computer savvy
That is not a word that would ever be used to describe me. So this idea I had to create some print copies of my book that is set to be digitally published in Ju...
Sexist Reading Habits
I was having a conversation recently about how the majority of readers are women and then I wondered what the numbers are. So I looked it up. This article puts ...
Pima Writer’s Workshop – A Look Back
So I said I’d talk more about this and then I got distracted. It has been a week since the workshop and I thought it was worth sharing the big take-away from th...
Monsoon Season: Book Review
I just got a review for Monsoon Season from Mary Vensel White, author of HarperCollins’ The Qualities of Wood: Monsoon Season is the story of Riley and Ben, two...
Pima Writer’s Workshop – Day Three
Today’s most helpful speech was Joshua Mohr‘s Character-driven Plotting: Why Our Characters are in Charge. As a writer who considers my characters the whole poi...
Pima Writer’s Workshop – Day Two
Today I ran into some of my old writer friends. It was nice to reconnect and it makes Tucson feel even more like home. The first speaker of the day was Kevin Ca...