by John Yeoman, @Yeomanis How do you tell a mother her baby is ugly? You don’t. You can’t. Agents can’t, either. We drop off our favourite child at their office, with love in [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The other mothers at the stables assured me that the day would come (probably sooner than later) when my daughter was going to come flying off her horse. [...]

by Douglas Corleone, @douglascorleone One of the toughest parts of being a new novelist is requesting blurbs from established authors. You’re not only asking an author to take eight to ten hours out [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

I’ll be back on Sunday with Twitterific, but will be on break until then.  I’m suddenly the aunt of twins.  :) [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It happens to all of us. If life hasn’t hijacked your writing schedule, then you’ve either been very lucky or else you haven’t been writing for very long. [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I’m over at Laura Howard’s Finding Bliss blog. I’m going to be talking about passive voice—a tricky subject and one that’s frequently misunderstood by writers. Hope you’ll [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the hazards of reading so many blogs is that I find out about a lot of fantastic-sounding books. I have a lot of to-be-read books on [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A friend of mine has a party each summer. Each summer she tells me, “Now, Elizabeth. I know you don’t like parties, but I’m counting on you to [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I had an interesting email exchange with another writer after Friday’s post ran. She mentioned that she had been at an event recently to talk with new writers [...]

by Joanna Slan, @JoannaSlan New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber has said, “If you don’t cry while you’re writing it, the reader won’t cry while she’s reading it.” Easier said than done. [...]

by Jodie Renner, freelance editor, @JodieRennerEd Have you ever read a book where the name of the main character was jarring to you, seemed inappropriate, or just wrong? Or have you mixed up [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My son is a rising sophomore in high school. I’ve heard from several friends with older kids that it might be smart for my son and I to [...]

@joannelessner “As someday it may happen that a victim must be found, I’ve got a little list.” –W.S. Gilbert I’m planning to kill my neighbor. Lest you fear that I’ve just made you [...]

@JoanRylen Thanks Elizabeth, for having us today so we could share our crazy, co-author story with your readers. Hey y’all! We are Johnell Kelley and Robbyn Hill, co-authors of Getaway Girlz, our debut [...]