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Should You Narrow the Focus of Your Blog?
Should you narrow the focus of your blog? The experts – and let’s face it, there is an expert on everything these days – recommend a single theme for successful blogging. Gardeners should stick to...
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Editors – Three Important Reasons Writers Need Them!
Editors! Writers sometimes fear them. We often have a belief – mistaken though it may be – that they are out to change our manuscripts or make our voices homogeneous. Today’s post will explain why we...
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Is There a Gender Bias Among Authors of Genre Novels?
We now scoff at the idea that the Bronte sisters had to use pseudonyms of male names in order to get published in England in the early eighteen hundreds. Female writers were not taken seriously....
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Five Things You Should Know About Engaging With an Editor
Linda Paul at Rangewriter is guest posting for me today. If you haven’t read her first piece about editors here you’ll want to after reading this insight. picture courtesy of Pinterest THARP ¬– My...
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The Power of Focus
We all multi-task. Our society virtually demands it. We can’t even drive to a nearby location without having gadgets and smart phones in the car with us. And that comes at a price. We miss a lot. It’s...
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Seven Things Authors Wish Agents Knew
Most authors have a box full of rejection slips from agents. It is easy to get them electronically too, with so much of the query process being handled online. So what is the secret to getting a good...
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Guest Posting by T. B. Markinson
T. B. Markinson is guest posting for me today. Most of you know her fabulous blog 50yearproject where she explores novels, movies, and interesting corners of the world. T. B. Markinson If that wasn’t a...
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT — One of my Novels is Getting Published!
Cue the fireworks and the marching band. Sing hallelujah and beat the drums! One of my novels has been contracted by The Wild Rose Press! Yes, my friends, one of my little children (as writers often...
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The Galley
The galley — or an advanced reader’s copy minus the cover — of my novel Acquisition is here. Yay!! This is an exciting time for any author, but especially for the debut novelist. We get to see how the...
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Interview with Author Lisa Rayns
One of the great benefits of writing for a publishing company is getting to know other authors underneath its canopy. And The Wild Rose Press has such a wonderfully diverse list of authors and novels,...
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Interview with Author Mark Wiederanders
Mark Wiederanders, a Sacramento-area author with a background as a research psychologist, is another author I had the privilege to meet and work with at the Noepe Center for Literary Arts on Martha’s...
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How was it?
It was the first public outing for Acquisition and me — a scheduled reading and book signing at Simply Serendipity on Tenth Street in North Wilkesboro, NC. And it began with grey, overcast skies and...
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Cover Release for The Haunting of William Gray
I am so excited to be able to share the cover for my second novel with The Wild Rose Press—The Haunting of William Gray! Participating in the progress of publishing a novel can be daunting at times,...
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