Category: Writing Matters

Happy fall! And happy Work in Progress Wednesday! I know—I missed a couple of WIP Wednesdays, but we are back! For visitors: WIP Wednesday is usually the first Wednesday of every month. It’s when I share an excerpt of what I’m working on, and if you’re a writer, so can you.  Be sure you’re subscribed to the blog (sign up

If you’ve been thinking about setting up an author website (even if you’re unpublished for now), and you don’t want to spent too much and you want it done in less than ten minutes, then this is your lucky day. Read all about it! I’m always telling people how important writer websites are. If a reader, an agent, an editor

If you’re writing dystopian fiction, fantasy, romantasy, science fiction, or other speculative fiction, your characters may be figuring out how to resist fascism, the rise of a dictator, the new reign of an evil monarch, or an increasingly oppressive oligarchy or corporatocracy. At the very least, your heroes may want to make the regime less efficient, demoralize its most loyal

Last month, my publisher asked me to write a letter to booksellers introducing my book Her Time Traveling Duke.   To be honest, until they asked me to do this last year for Her Knight at the Museum , I didn’t know that authors introducing their work to booksellers was A Thing. I don’t know if most publishers do this!

This list of scents is something I’ve been meaning to do forever, because the sense of smell is uniquely connected to memories and to emotion. A scent in a story can flip a little switch in a reader’s brain, immediately triggering a mood. That’s why when I edit other people’s books, I often encourage them to include smells. I especially

Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday! I hope the summer is treating you right so far! (And if not, it’s always fine to declare a do-over today. 🙂 ) Before we get started, I’m going to ask you for a favor. Will you please add my forthcoming novel, Her Time Traveling Duke, to your Goodreads “to be read” list?