Gnome de plume

Last week, I entered a gnome pun contest at Ricki Schultz’s blog based on Chuck Sambuchino’s book, “How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack.” And today I found out – I won! The prize is a five-page manuscript critique, which I am totally stoked about. (Does anyone say stoked anymore?) Anyhoo, here’s my pun: Does [...]

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So I entered a pitch contest over at Market My Words – a fabulous blog run by author Shelli Johannes-Wells (find link at right).  I stumbled across the contest purely by accident, when my son was home sick on Tuesday and I was procrastinating on revision yet again. The setup was simple – give your [...]

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I know I’m late to the party, but I just came across an interesting statistic – the average writer will write 1 million words before they are published. 1 million. Just out of curiosity, I decided to see how I matched up, seven and a half years into this crazy dream of mine – that [...]

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November is fast approaching, and with it comes the question – to Nano, or not to Nano? Usually, the answer is a quick and resounding “Heck yes!” But this year I have a lot on my keyboard. I’m currently querying “How to Speak to Spirits,” my middle-grade Nano novel of 2008. And I’m deep in the [...]

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