So this past weekend was the 3rd annual PAYA book festival – Bring YA to PA, organized by the multi-talented Skyanne Fisher. What a blast of books, workshops, authors, readers, writers, signing and general awesomeness! I started the day off with a writing workshop moderated by Tiffany Schmidt, along amazing talented authors like Jackie Morse […]
In Anne Lamott‘s words, your crappy first draft is done, pretty much what you’ve verbally vomited onto paper/screen/napkin, whatever. So what’s next? The next thing you do is pat yourself on the back. Well done! You’ve written an entire novel. WOOHOO! Now comes the hard part. Just kidding, but not really. I say that it’s […]
At Mendham Books in NJ–a wonderful, browse-friendly bookstore in the Mendham Village Shopping Center–I met up with 5 other authors for a group event last week: Natalie Zaman, Charlotte Bennardo, Margie Gelbwasser, Alissa Grosso, and Jennifer R. Hubbard. I wanted to do a blog post about these authors and their books because these were all […]
Holy kerfluffles, Batman. It’s June already! Seriously, where did half the year go? I don’t know about you guys but it sure felt like a blink to me. So June is here, and to me, that means the end of school and the start of summer. And who doesn’t love summer? I certainly do, but […]
So I figured I’d write a blog post on motivation since I need to self-motivate right about now. It’s not that I’m completely lacking in it–I just lack some much needed focus. My agent asked me to edit a short-story and I was able to do it in short order, so I know I have […]
So I’ve finally updated my website with some new Books, Calendar & FAQs sections, which are full of miscellaneous information and links. I also added some more “Connect With Me” buttons, considering how socially critical all these social media sites have become. Followers, fans, circles … who knew social connection could become such a phenomenon? So […]