At the San Francisco Writers Conference this past weekend, I met Laurie R. King, bestselling author of 22 novels. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and Dreaming Spies are two among the many books she wrote. King is the only crime writer with an Edgar and an honorary doctorate in theology. In her Mary Russell series of which […]
Happy Valentines Day Everyone
Have a lovely Day, Everyone.
Agents at the San Francisco Writers Conference February 12 to 16th
At the San Francisco Writers Conference on Saturday, February 14th, 8 a.m. to noon, is the Speed Dating with Agents: A Pitch-and-Learn Session. https://sfwriters.org/2015-sfwc-speakers/# Here is a list of the agents that will be at the conference. AGENTS: Margaret Bail, Inklings Literary Agency, FL Peter Beren, Peter Beren Agency, CA Regina Brooks, Serendipity […]
Speakers at the San Francisco Writers Conference
Join us Presidents’ Day Weekend for the 2015 SFWC February 12-15, 2015–at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Here is the growing list of authors and other presenters who will be speaking at the 2015 San Francisco Writers Conference. To find out more about each of them, click on the underlined name. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Judith Curr, president/publisher […]
Quote by Charles Chigna
Charles Ghigna is an American poet and author of more than 100 books from Random House, Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and more. The themes of his books and poetry reflect a celebration of childhood, as well as a reverence for nature and animals and also humor, holidays, riddles, seasons, school, sports, and the […]
Solve Writer’s Block and the Sagging Middle of a Novel
My previous post told how I was stuck in the sagging middle of my novel. I didn’t know how to get back into the rhythm after three months of writing Ekphrasis prose and poetry due the end of December. I’d imagined several ways to begin Chapter 15 and didn’t like any of the options. For […]
Writing the Sagging Middle of a Novel
In my previous novels (three sitting in the drawer, finished but unpublished), I didn’t worry about sagging middles. Aware of that syndrome from hearing other writers talk about it, I amped up the drama in the middle. No problem. In Norman in the Painting, my present WIP, I stopped writing the novel at the point […]