It’s #GivingTuesday today, and this year, I hope you’ll join my annual push to support Heifer International, an organization devoted to fighting hunger. As hunger surges around the world with rising inflation and the war in Ukraine, their work is as important as ever. Here’s how to participate: If you’re able, please visit my fundraising page and make […]
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Stepping off the script in life
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on somebody else’s path.” – Joseph Campbell Whenever you go through a difficult life event–a loved one passing away, a divorce, getting fired or laid off–you quickly feel the inadequacy of the “script” that people follow in fraught social situations. Someone finds out your loved one […]
Will you ever buy mostly e-books? 2022 results!
If you had asked me to hazard a guess about how this poll would go this year, I would have said this: “After an e-book uptick related to the pandemic and a hesitancy to shop in physical stores, things are probably returning to normal and paper will again reign supreme.” Well…kind of? The paper dead […]
National Book Award winners! (This week in books)
This week! Books! First up, if you need a great read for the holiday season, might I point you to The Darling Killers by Sarah McCarry, which was recently released in print and e-book? It’s a juicy and funny neo-noir centered around a group of authors in Los Angeles, perfect for book lovers. Get it! […]
Unique details make your setting and characters come alive (page critique)
If you’d like to nominate your own page or query for a public critique, kindly post them here in our discussion forums: Nominate Your First Page for a Critique on the Blog Nominate Your Query for a Critique on the Blog Also, if you’d like to test your editing chops, keep your eye on this area or this area! […]
Will you ever buy mostly e-books? (16th annual poll)
Sixteenth annual poll! When I first launched this poll in 2007, Amazon’s first Kindle was just a few weeks old and iPads didn’t even exist yet. Now we have gizmos galore and a global pandemic under our belts. Are people feeling the e-book thunder or are they weathering the storm with paper in their hands? […]
