Sifting Through Words
I’m always thinking. And, always is not an arbitrary adverb. If you’ve read some of my other blogs, you’re aware I love practicing yoga because it creates a shimmering island of calm in a sea of unbridled thoug... Read More...
Is There Gender Bias in Publishing? A Female Writer’s Pseudonym Experiment
Catherine Nichols wrote an interesting article about querying her novel first under her own name, and then under a man’s name, as a kind of scientific experiment. The results were depressing: the "male" writer ... Read More...
Write a Book Already!
I wanted to be a writer when I was a little girl – also an astronaut, an archeologist, and a doctor. I almost got there with the doctor thing, but medical school with small children was, for me, an impossible b... Read More...
Beta Readers Mull It Over
Beta readers are a blessing to all writers. My beta readers helped me see things I never would have from my myopic standpoint. How many times can I reread my work before it transforms into a continuous blur of ... Read More...