My favorite question to be asked is, “So who’s going to play Thornton in the movie?” and I like it for two reasons: (1) it assumes that my book will be made into a movie, and (2), because Josh Hartnett is a great guy and would probably be really receptive to being in a project…
I was recently approached about writing a guest article for NFReads.com, and I had to really take some time to think about just what I would say. I knew that I would want to talk about my journey into writing, but I wasn’t sure just how I wanted to do it. I felt like I’d…
A real, actual query letter I thought, since I wrote a guide on how to get your book published, that I would give a real-world example and include an actual query letter that I sent out to an agent. When you are starting to work on yours, feel free to use mine as an example….
One of the hardest things for me after I finished writing the first draft of Gift of the Shaper was figuring out where to go next. Now that I’m officially a published author, I thought I might try and pass along some of what I learned so that more people can realize that goal as…
Have you ever read an action scene that just seemed to drag on? What about important dialogue that seemed to fly by way too fast? If you’ve experienced either of those and been annoyed, you’ve experienced poor pacing, and you have a right to be upset. In this “Basics of Writing” entry, I’ll try to…
Writing a Book? Here’s Where to Start One of the questions that I get asked the most is “what advice do you have for someone trying to write a book?” My answer is almost always some variation of “the only way to write a book is to write a book.” And by that I mean,…
