There are many steps to a manuscript becoming a real book – when I hold a finished copy of my book in my hands, complete with: • Final cover • …
Understanding the 5 Love Languages of a Writer
Gary Chapman wrote the best-selling book The Five Love Languages, detailing how people receive love in five primary ways: • Gifts – Love expressed through the giving of gifts • …
Remember This One Thing During the 2015 Writers Contest Season
Tis the season … to find out if you finaled in a writers’ contest or not. Ah, writers contests. We enter them with such high hopes, sending our formatted manuscripts …
5 Tips to Help You Afford a Writers Conference
“I can’t afford to go to a writers conference.” I hear this writer’s lament a lot. And there were years I stared down that seemingly insurmountable CAN’T, all the while …
Letting Our Characters “Get Tired of It”
Last weekend was one of those longtime-coming-but-so-worth-the-wait kind of events. After 18 months of planning, best-selling author Rachel Hauck spoke at Write in the Springs, the annual conference for the Colorado …