Women’s National Book Association’s 12th Annual Pitch-O-Rama: Meet the Agents and Editors is set for tomorrow morning. Saturday, March 28, 2015, 8:00 am – 12:30 pm For men and women Women’s Building, Auditorium, 3543 18th Street (b/t Guerrero & Valencia Streets) San Francisco CA 94110 Continental Breakfast Free pre-pitch coaching and ongoing mentoring Two one-hour […]
Writer’s Digest Boot Camp
Writer’s Digest University’s “How to Find and Keep a Literary Agent Boot Camp” is half-way finished for this week. I’ve learned a lot about query letters. We’ve viewed two videos, had two days of two hour discussions, and tomorrow we submit our query letter, first five pages, and synopsis for our agent’s critique. I choose […]
Paul Levinson’s The Other Car
The next couple days I might not post since I need to organize my receipts for taxes. I took a break today and read a novella by Paul Levinson called “The Other Car.” It’s available on Kindle for $.99. James Oleson is beginning to see everything in perfect duplicate – two identical models of cars […]
Review: Our House is not in Paris by Susan Cutsforth
Book Review Reblog from solothefirst.wordpress.com
Secondary Characters Deserve Attention
Do you have secondary characters in your novel or story? Have you given them enough attention? Or are you using them as if they were props? As writers, we spend time in character development for our protagonist and antagonist, and tend to throw in a secondary character for dialogue or for a cause of some […]
Lolly Winston’s Good Grief
Lolly Winston’s Good Grief is an excellent book. I savored the last twenty pages, unable to leave the characters and their world in Ashland, Oregon, that I enjoyed these last few days. At times the story brought tears and other times, I laughed out loud, even in the reception room where I was waiting for […]
Rollo May Quotes
Today, I opened a book at random and found the following quote by Rollo May: “The boundaries of our world shift under out feet and we tremble while waiting to see whether any new form will take the place of the lost boundary or whether we can create out of this chaos some new order.” […]