Hi gang! I’m out filling the well this week, so the post will be a little short. I’m visiting with my family this weekend. I’ve been writing as a second job for about two years now. Or actually, a published writer,so it counts in their eyes. Introduced to one of my nephew’s wife, she had […]
By Bethany Maines When I was in college there was a hierarchy of artsy-ness. The fine artists looked down on the graphic designers, who looked down on the production people, who had to make do with looking down on people outside the art department. Web designers and Illustrators had to float around the edges and […]
Buy by Pepper O’Neal I once read a post in which the author quoted a research study that concluded it takes about a million words for a writer to get any good at writing. (Although, why anyone would possibly want to research something like that is beyond me.) In other words, you have to write […]
By guest Shannon Baker Not everything about writing novels is great. It takes lots of time I could spend outside playing. I have to deal with the ugly face of rejection—more frequently than I’d like to admit. Trying to work out complicated plots hurts my head. Getting the words right with all the craft and […]
Though I didn’t set out to do many in-person book related events, I have quite a full schedule for the rest of the year. The last weekend in July, I participated with three other authors at an afternoon of booksigning and discussion at a book store in another city. (We have no bookstores close by.) […]
Writers have to answer all sorts of questions and probably the most frequen one, after “How can I get published?” is “Where do you get your ideas?” Mine come from many different places: newspaper articles, things I remember happening in the past, what I’ve overheard, events people mention, and more. One thing that happens when […]
Hi guys! It’s been a little crazy over at Casa Cahoon. I had a jam packed RWA conference running from 7 in the morning to after 10 at night. (Don’t worry, I did get down to the Riverwalk and enjoyed some Tex Mex at a couple of spots. I remembered why I loved fish tacos. […]
I was talking with a friend about how when I first started on the reader/fan convention circuit, I created my own little black book filled with pages of authors and images of their books. I stood on line with all the other fans and gathered my autographs. I was in heaven. The following year, again […]
Each summer, 2000 romance writers invade a different city, a different hotel chain. This year, our annual get together is on the River Walk in San Antonio. I’ve been to 2 Nat’ls. The last one being held in NYC. I loved the energy of being in the city. Since my friend and I stayed off […]
Maybe it Was the Water? By Laura Bradford Honestly, I have no idea what’s come over me the past two and a half months, but whatever it is, I like it. A lot. Something about this year’s Malice Domestic Conference lit my reserve tanks like no conference has ever done before. Sure, I’m been “motivated” […]